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The Amish Voice 8
Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to
get old is when
we're kids? If
you're less than 10
years old, you're so
excited about aging
that you think in
fractions.
"How old are you?"
"
I'm four
and a
half!"
You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a
half, going on five! That's the key.
You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You
jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.
"How old are you?"
"I'm
gonna be
16!" You could be 13, but hey, you're gonna be
16! And then the greatest day of your life .. . You
become
21.
Even the words sound like a ceremony.
YOU BECOME 21.
YESSSS!!!
But then you
turn
30. Oooohh, what happened there? He
TURNED. There's no fun now, you're just a sour-dumpling.
What's wrong? What's changed?
You
BECOME
21, you
TURN
30, then you're
PUSHING
40.
Whoa! Put on the
brakes,
it's
all
slipping
away.
Before you know it,
you
REACH
50
and your dreams are
gone.
But wait!!!
You
MAKE it
to 60.
You
didn't
think
you
would!
So you
BECOME
21,
TURN
30,
PUSH
40,
REACH
50, and
MAKE it
to 60.
You've built up so much speed that you
HIT
70! After that it's
a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!
You
get into
your 80's and every day is a complete cycle: you
HIT lunch, you TURN 4:30, you REACH bedtime, and it
doesn't end there.
Into the 90s, you start going backwards; "I
Was JUST
92."
Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you
become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!"
May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!
Views on Aging
—By George Carlin
Living a Life That Counts
Have you ever wished to know the exact day and hour you will
die? Or maybe you are like me; I wonder sometimes how I will
die. Regardless, God alone knows these answers. All of us
want to spend our days, hours, and seconds on something
important.
As Christians, we want our lives to count for God.
If that’s the case, we have to manage wisely the three primary
resources God has entrusted to us: our time, our money, and our
talents. If you want your life to count, you have to number your
days.
Psalm 90:1-12
V-1 & 2
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all
generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or
ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even
from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
The word everlasting means "from the vanishing point to the
vanishing point.'' God is from the vanishing point in the past
and reaches to the vanishing point in eternity future. Just as far
as you can see, from vanishing point to vanishing point, He is
still God. —J. Vernon McGee
V-4
For a thousand years
in thy sight are but as
yesterday when it is past
, and as a watch in the night.
It would be like the flight of a bird through a lighted room,
coming out of the darkness through one window and going out
another window into the darkness again. —J. Vernon McGee
V-10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten
(70 years); and if by reason of strength they be
fourscore years (80 years), yet is their strength labour
and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Time can be spent like money, which leads most people into
one of two mistakes:
1. Some think they have too much time and waste it on
unimportant things, preventing them from spending it on
things that matter.
2. Others think they have too little time and
don’t even try to do anything significant.
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—By Joe Keim