aging on Change of Seasons

The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year—the days when summer is changing into autumn—the crickets s...

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

I love that part in The Silver Chair when old age simply vanishes from frail King Caspian, because age is the unavoidable meltdown, stripping even the bravest and most beautiful of their former glor...

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different?

One cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be of little importance in the evening, and what in the morning was true wi...

For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, tho’, in another dress. And as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Do you remember the first time you started to feel your mortality? Or perhaps, the first time you realized their was something wrong with your body? Your mind? At some point (for me it was my twenties...

The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Old age has its pleasures, which though different, are no less than the pleasures of youth.

Old men ought to be explorers Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For another union, a deeper communion.

God of the Ages, Every day we come face to face with our mortality and the pain of this broken world Every day the need is great in body, mind, and spirit Every day brings disappointment  Every day b...

The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being ab...

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Preaching Commentary Introduction Believed to be some of Paul’s last words of his long ministry, 2 Tim. 4:6ff are Paul’s closing remarks to his beloved disciple, Timothy. Imprisoned in Rome by this...

Time wounds all heels.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.

The three immutable facts: You own stuff. You will die. Someone will get that stuff.

"To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all."

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Life and time are ghosted creatures for us all. They belong to us—and are not ours at the same time.

We admit that embracing slowness is hard . But slowness transforms us. One of our favorite theologians, Dr. John Goldingay, served for decades as a professor of Old Testament theology. Goldingay ...

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, t...

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

I grew up playing sports, and basketball in particular has always been a favorite. Though I turned fifty-one last year, I often remind my younger friends that I “still have game.” I keep insisting tha...

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

I love old homes. I’m always drawn to them. The character, the drama, the history. The possibility they possess in a different way than a new build does. Often when referring to older homes, people sa...