{"id":3908,"date":"2026-01-11T07:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2026-01-11T07:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:07:13","slug":"on-being-a-senior-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2026\/01\/on-being-a-senior-adult\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being a Senior Adult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had my 84th birthday recently.\u00a0\u00a0If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.\u00a0\u00a0My 93 year old next door neighbor, shared these with me for my birthday. I\u2019ve made a few adjustments, added a quote or two, but the idea is still there:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIn my mind I am still 29, but my back is 54, my knee is 63, and my right hip turns 76 next week!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI choked on a carrot this afternoon and all I could think was &#8220;I bet a donut wouldn&#8217;t have done this to me.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI&#8217;m beginning to think that for some of our younger leaders, the wheels on their bus do not go round and round.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMy kids laugh because they think I\u2019m crazy.\u00a0\u00a0I laugh because they don\u2019t know it\u2019s hereditary.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I thought it was my dryer that was making my clothes shrink. Turns out it\u2019s the refrigerator.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIf a cookie falls on the floor and you pick it up&#8230;that&#8217;s a squat, right? How about a deep-knee bend?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOne thing no one ever talks about when it comes to being a senior adult, is how much time we debate keeping a cardboard box because it&#8217;s, you know&#8230;.. a really good box.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI understand that 60 might be the new 40.\u00a0\u00a0Not so sure about that, but what I do know is that 9:00 pm is the new midnight.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI\u2019ve reached the age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTime may be a great healer, but it\u2019s a lousy beautician.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Finally, from one of my quote hero\u2019s, Hall of Fame baseball player, Satchel Paige &#8211; \u201cAge is an issue of mind over matter. If you don&#8217;t mind, it doesn&#8217;t matter.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Most mornings, I don\u2019t mind rolling out of bed.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s the mornings when I have to get up off the floor, that matter.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of aging, the Psalmist said of the aging, \u201cThey shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing\u201d (Psalm 92:14). I like that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my 84th birthday recently.\u00a0\u00a0If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.\u00a0\u00a0My 93 year old next door neighbor, shared these with me for my birthday. I\u2019ve made a few adjustments, added a quote or two, but the idea is still there: \u201cIn my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3909,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions\/3909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}