The Beauty of Growing Older - Beyond the Wrinkles
My 69th Birthday is April 6th - quite the privilege. For many years I have written something about my approaching birthdays. Here I am again - Writing. Thinking. Smiling. I love to ‘announce’ my birthday is approaching - my church family has been reminded almost every Sunday for the past two months. I’m blessed with family and friends that I love and they love me. Getting older is a good and pleasant thing for many reasons. If you know me at all then you know that here comes some of those ‘reasons’ and simply some ‘thoughts’ on my life… First of all - Once you are on an airplane, you are there until it lands. Not one thing can you do about that. Get it? Most of us get shorter as we age; however, my explanations get longer and longer and longer. I just have a lot to say. We are never to old to set another goal or dream a new dream - C.S. Lewis It may be true that as we age we are gently nudged off the stage (I don’t nudge well), but it is quite comfortable being a spectator