All My Friends Are Getting Old (standard:humor, 899 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Apr 02 2017	Views/Reads: 1905/1288	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Getting old seems to be a long and slow process. The longer it goes the older you get. I didn’t really think I was getting old until a few weeks ago I was visiting with some friends from high school. You know those old high school friends that you had

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I did enjoy my visit with those friends, but it did start me thinking
about things I have never thought about before. Someone said that the 
70 is the new 20. I will keep that in mind when I hit that magical mark 
called 70. 

When I got home, I shared some of my thoughts with the Gracious Mistress
of the Parsonage who just listen very patiently. I went on and on about 
how old my friends looked. 

When I settled back in my chair and sipped some coffee, she looked at me
and said something that rather startled me. “I wonder,” she said rather 
thoughtfully, “if your friends are saying the same thing about you!” 

That was a thought stopper for sure. What if they were? What if I looked
old to them? 

Is it really that bad to get old? I thought about that for a moment and
then realized if you stop getting older, you're dead. 

“I have been young,” David said rather thoughtfully, “and now am old;
yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread” 
(Psalm 37:25). 

The one I like is, “They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they
shall be fat and flourishing” (Psalm 92:14). This one fits me to a T. 

Not only are my friends getting old, but I'm getting old and my goal is
to get as old as I possibly can. 


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