Growing Old

Add these to your list of signs that you’re getting old:

  • Your ears perk up at a laxative commercial on TV.
  • When you do the Hokey Pokey and you put your left hip out, it stays out.
  • One of the throw pillows on your bed is a hot water bottle.
  • You don’t have enemies because you’ve outlived them all.
  • You don’t date women your own age because there aren’t any.
  • “Happy hour” now consists of a nap.
  • You remember what you did yesterday by what hurts today.
  • Your mind makes contracts your body can’t keep.
  • You find yourself giving good advice instead of setting a bad example.
  • The candles cost more than the cake.
  • The little gray-haired lady you help across the street is your wife.
  • You realize that whatever Mother Nature gave you, Father Time has taken away.

Some good things about growing old:

Proverbs 16:31 

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Isaiah 46:4 

Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

Leviticus 19:32 

“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Think really hard on this one.

Gary

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