My wife was on the phone this morning with a friend from her high school days. She and her husband are our ages, but they are getting reedy to move into a nursing home down in SC. He is not doing too well with his Alzheimer's, and she is moving with him to that facility to be involved in the care giving. A new place to live, in a new area (they now live in VA but their daughter and family live close to the nursing home), all around them is change.
My golfing buddy had two knee replacement last week, and he is in rehab in Jacksonville. I'm sure he feels that change right now as he tries to get straightened out with new knees.
All around us is change. From the things that we can do, to the things that we are not even asked to do anymore.
So how do we cope? Do we just go with the flow of things, or do we hang on? Do we resign ourselves to the new order of things, or do we fight it?
It is so easy to see in our mind the possible problems of the future, but surely we are not to sit around the rest of our days bemoaning our bad situations. How about something to look forward to?
God has not finished with us yet.
Maybe, just maybe, he wants us to be an example of a person growing older with grace and looking forward , not to just the bye and bye, but in the place where he has put us today.
Our lives need not be devoid of purpose as long as that purpose is His.
Let's look for that.
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