HOW TO GROW OLD GRACEFULLY

Monday, July 23, 2007

"Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in His hand
Who saith “A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all nor be afraid!”

William Barclay says there are four things that the years should bring.
They should bring a sense of proportion. We learn that some things are important and some are unimportant.
They should bring an increasing serenity.
They should bring also a larger tolerance.
And lastly, surely the years will bring an increasing conviction of the triumphant adequacy of the grace of God

The advice is not never grow old, because that cannot be done, but grow old with wisdom and with God.