Old and Confused
A friend emailed me today trying to help me figure out some dates on a surprise birthday party for a mutual friend. She wrote in the email, "I’m old and I’m confused and that is dangerous." I chuckled to myself and shared with her what I had just done at the store, speaking of old and confused. I started to give the cashier at Sprouts my driver's license rather than my credit card and only noticed my mistake as I was struggling to get my license out of the little clear compartment in my wallet. Once I noticed my mistake, I reached for my Safeway card!
When you are young, you don't realize that later in life hormones, or lack there of, plus inflammation of joints, muscle weakness, loss of eyesight and hearing, etc. change the way you live your life. You also lose patience with elders that seem slow and unresponsive, but believe me when I say, "They'd love to be able to do things as easily and as quickly as they did when they were your age."
So my call to all young and old today is just to have patience and self-control with ourselves and others. Remembering to show kindness, care, love, and gentleness toward all and in doing so we can feel more joy and peace which is what everyone is seeking. Thus ultimately, by our Spirit-filled actions, lead others to faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
When you are young, you don't realize that later in life hormones, or lack there of, plus inflammation of joints, muscle weakness, loss of eyesight and hearing, etc. change the way you live your life. You also lose patience with elders that seem slow and unresponsive, but believe me when I say, "They'd love to be able to do things as easily and as quickly as they did when they were your age."
So my call to all young and old today is just to have patience and self-control with ourselves and others. Remembering to show kindness, care, love, and gentleness toward all and in doing so we can feel more joy and peace which is what everyone is seeking. Thus ultimately, by our Spirit-filled actions, lead others to faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Fruit and vegetables displayed at an outdoor market in Bend, Oregon.
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
very true...I hope people will be patient with me. I feel like the older I get, I cannot hear well, see well, focus, and just plain hurt all over. Whats frustrating is because I can't hear well, I don't want to ask people to repeat themselves so sometimes I pretend to hear them. But that can get me in trouble, so I need not feel bad about asking them to repeat.
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