AGING Our society places so much emphasis on youth, that it’s easy to get the impression, that growing old is some kind of disgrace. This seems strange to believe because, […]
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FAMILY DISREGARD One day a boy’s grandfather came to live with him and his parents. When the grandfather ate, he was unable to hold his spoon without spilling food on
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TWO AND A HALF LIVES D. L. Moody was once asked how many were saved in a particular evangelistic service he had conducted. Moody answered, “Two and a half.” Moody
GENERATIONAL SEAMS OF LIFE In the cloth of life the seams are at the generations.
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DID SHE START AT ONE? Some children who were touring a retirement home were asked by a resident if they had any questions. “Yes,” one girl said. “How old are
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SHOT BY A JEALOUS HUSBAND Three elderly men were discussing the type of accidental death to be preferred: The first man, who was eighty years old said, “My preference would
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WEIGHT LOSS A BATH AWAY Childhood is now looked back to with nostalgia because it was the one wonderful time when all you needed to do to lose weight was
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EXPERIENCE AND MISTAKE S” Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you see it again.” By Earl Wilson
CYNICISM OR YOUTH The day a person becomes a cynic is the day he loses his youth. — Marvin D. Levy
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METHUSELAH’S FOOD Methuselah ate what he found on his plate, and never, as people do now, did he note the amount of the caloric count; he ate it because it
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A JOYFUL OLD HEART On October 16, 1995 Jeanne Calment of Paris was inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records by becoming the oldest human on record — over
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THEFT- PROOF MUSIC I knew I was getting old when a thief broke in to my car and stole my tape deck but left my tapes behind.
LIFE AND OUR BODIES A young man lives through his body, an old man lives against it. From Men in Mid-life Crisis, by Jim Conway, pg. 264
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EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION The young make the mistake of thinking that education can take the place of experience… …the old, that experience can take the place of education. Source unknown
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GOVERNMENT & LOVE The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life — the children; those who are in the twilight of
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OLD IS NEW Tag sewn into clothing: This garment is sewn and scientifically laundered to give the look of being old and worn. Flaws and imperfections are part of the
“I have gone astray like a lost sheep” (Psalm 119:176). An eighty-five-year-old man was sitting on a park bench crying. A passerby who noticed the tears running down the man’s
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“A glad heart is excellent medicine” (Proverbs 17:22). Years ago on the NBC-TV “Today Show,” co-host Joe Garagiola recalled a visit he had made to his local drugstore. He said,
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“What man can cling to life and not see death?” (Psalms 89:48). Someone has written a little tongue-in-cheek piece about living our lives in reverse. “Life is tough,” it begins…
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“Charm is deceitful, and beauty empty; the woman which is wise is the one to praise” (Proverbs 31:30). In an anthropology class, the teacher was groping for an example of
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