As of last week\u2019s birthday, I have now lived three-quarters of a century. As one friend said, I am the oldest I\u2019ve ever been and the youngest I\u2019ll ever be again. Some days I feel very young. Maybe Spanish painter, poet and playwright, Pablo Picasso was right, \u201cIt takes a very long time to become young.\u201d Other days, the aging process makes me feel very old, yet the French composer Daniel Auber was correct when he wrote, \u201cAging seems to be the only way available to live a long life.\u201d Speaking of the aging process, I received one birthday message that said, \u201cCongratulations! You are one year closer to Velcro shoes.\u201d Max Lucado helps me see the positive side of growing older by writing, \u201cYour last chapters can be your best. Your final song can be your greatest. It could be that all of your life has prepared you for a grand exit. God\u2019s oldest have always been among his choicest.\u201d I\u2019d like to think the words were for me as well as for Isaiah, when God said, \u201cEven to your old age, I am He, and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you\u201d (Isaiah 46:4). So I say with Robert Browning, to all of my reader friends who are aging, and that includes all, \u201cGrow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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