As we walked up to a woman, a friend asked me, “Gary, do you know who this is?”
I replied, “No. “
The friend added, “This is so-and-so.”
She was someone I hadn’t seen in fifty years. I looked at her more closely and asked, “So-and-so, are you in there?” That was not an appropriate response on my part. Time changes everything and is oft cruel on the exterior.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Give it some thought and be careful with quick responses.
Gary