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, everyone gets to be young,…
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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 the tablecloth and the floor.…
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 was asked if that meant…
GENERATIONAL SEAMS OF LIFE In the cloth of life the seams are at the generations.
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 you?" "I'm 98," she replied…
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 be to fall to earth…
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 to take a bath.
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
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 was chow. He wasn't disturbed…
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 120 years of age. She…
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
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
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 life -- the aged; and…
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 total desired look.
“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 cheeks stopped to see if…
“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, From the shelves I selected…
“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... It takes a lot of…
“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 how our ideas about beauty…
