Allow me one final word on Moses’ one and only Psalm (90). It’s all about our aging and dying versus God’s eternal agelessness. While our beauty wanes, his retains and maybe even increases in glory. Moses seems to have written the poem just before he hiked up Nebo and died, a ripe 120 years old. …
What’s This About the “Beauty of God”? (Psalm 90:17)
I mentioned in previous posts that having turned seventy this year I’m feeling every pain and taking all the pills to prove it. We septuagenarians and beyond may whine and complain, but one thing we can be thankful for is the diminishing struggle against peer pressure! In my case, seventy is the new eighty and …
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What of Old Age and the Beauty of God (Part 2)
“Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures.” (Psalm 90:10) I was in a restaurant with a few of my much younger friends when the five-year old boy sitting next to me in the booth reached up, took a pinch of my sagging neck skin, and said, “Why are you …
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What of Old Age and the Beauty of God (Part 1)
I used to make fun of old people, who, when they got together, all they talked about were their aches, pains, and latest medical procedures. Now I are one of them! And so are my old friends. We sit around and compare medications and their milligrams as a conversation piece like it it’s a hobby. …
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How To Finish Well
Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures…Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. (Ps. 90:10,12) Many years ago, while on a prayer retreat in a mountain cabin I was reflecting on my life thus far. I thought about the number of years that had elapsed …
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