They shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be fresh and flourishing. - Psalm 92:14
After conducting a series of interviews with elderly people, author Don Gold published the book Until the Singing Stops: A Celebration of Life and Old Age in America.
Gold loved and admired his grandmother, and it was the memory of her that moved him to meet and learn from other elderly people. He recalls that on the way to one of his interviews, he got lost on a dusty country in Missouri. When he pulled into a farm to ask for directions, a teenager came up, listened, shrugged his shoulders, and then replied, "Don't know." So he drove on. A few miles farther down the road, he stopped again at a farmhouse. The farmer, who was an old man, graciously gave him flawless directions.
Perhaps, Gold mused, that experience sums up what he was searching for when the memory of his grandmother sent him out to find people like her. He was looking for someone to guide him in his life journey.
If you're "young," seek out older people who have been drinking deeply from God's love and goodness throughout their life. They have wisdom to share that will help you so that you also might flourish and grow in your faith.
Dear Jesus, take my heart and hand,
and grant me this, I pray:
That I through Your sweet love may grow
More like You day by day. - Garrison
Fellowship with Christ is the secret of fruitfulness for Him.
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suppose, i have to listen to those experienced people, to learn...
but, it really hurts when all i have from him was stupidity of me...
i want to grow too.. with more wisdom, like someone he admires...
but it takes time.... i don't know how long will this takes, but i'm trying...
can't he be nice to me? phrase it some other way... i would listen and follow..
why it has to end this way?
i thought, we are strong, have firm foundation...
but why all this collapse just because of my ignorant? naive? stubborn and stupidity?
maybe, it's time to let it go?
continue to live with someone that he can't be sure,
be sure to be his firm support,
must has struggled him severely all this while...
I should let him go...
get someone that can promise a future for him?
he deserve better, i should let him go...
if i love him enough, i won't let him suffer all this..
it's enough... i had enough happiness from him,
and he suffered enough from me...
it's done... the end...
the fruit of this relationship, i guess...
i got my happy memories with him...
and i had no idea what he got, other and suffers...
After conducting a series of interviews with elderly people, author Don Gold published the book Until the Singing Stops: A Celebration of Life and Old Age in America.
Gold loved and admired his grandmother, and it was the memory of her that moved him to meet and learn from other elderly people. He recalls that on the way to one of his interviews, he got lost on a dusty country in Missouri. When he pulled into a farm to ask for directions, a teenager came up, listened, shrugged his shoulders, and then replied, "Don't know." So he drove on. A few miles farther down the road, he stopped again at a farmhouse. The farmer, who was an old man, graciously gave him flawless directions.
Perhaps, Gold mused, that experience sums up what he was searching for when the memory of his grandmother sent him out to find people like her. He was looking for someone to guide him in his life journey.
If you're "young," seek out older people who have been drinking deeply from God's love and goodness throughout their life. They have wisdom to share that will help you so that you also might flourish and grow in your faith.
Dear Jesus, take my heart and hand,
and grant me this, I pray:
That I through Your sweet love may grow
More like You day by day. - Garrison
Fellowship with Christ is the secret of fruitfulness for Him.
~.~ ... ~.~ ... ~.~ ... ~.~ ... ~.~ ... ~.~ ... ~.~ ... ~.~ ... ~.~ ... ~.~ ... ~.~ ... ~.~ ... ~.~ ... ~.~ ... ~.~
suppose, i have to listen to those experienced people, to learn...
but, it really hurts when all i have from him was stupidity of me...
i want to grow too.. with more wisdom, like someone he admires...
but it takes time.... i don't know how long will this takes, but i'm trying...
can't he be nice to me? phrase it some other way... i would listen and follow..
why it has to end this way?
i thought, we are strong, have firm foundation...
but why all this collapse just because of my ignorant? naive? stubborn and stupidity?
maybe, it's time to let it go?
continue to live with someone that he can't be sure,
be sure to be his firm support,
must has struggled him severely all this while...
I should let him go...
get someone that can promise a future for him?
he deserve better, i should let him go...
if i love him enough, i won't let him suffer all this..
it's enough... i had enough happiness from him,
and he suffered enough from me...
it's done... the end...
the fruit of this relationship, i guess...
i got my happy memories with him...
and i had no idea what he got, other and suffers...
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