aging on Loss

We bring before you, O Lord, the troubles and perils of people and nations, the sighing of prisoners and captives, the sorrows of the bereaved, the necessities of strangers, the helplessness of the we...

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a ...

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

Earlier this week I led a workshop for a national gathering of pastors. My subject, as you might guess, was church ministry with people in the third third of life. My workshop was entitled, “Unlocking...

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

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Time wounds all heels.

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

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.

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

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

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

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it should give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

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...

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...

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...

I’ve reached an age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me.

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

Treat the elderly as a nonrenewable resource; they care!

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 point, Paul concludes ...

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

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...

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...

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

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

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...

Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members...

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