We’re all getting too old………..
Have you ever got up in the morning, looked in the mirror and
been shocked at what you saw? Even more shocked than usual,
that is! Look there’s a grey hair there! A wrinkle there! My hair’s receding!
I’m getting old! Even more alarming: have you met up with an old friend you
haven’t seen in years? ”My word,” you exclaim, “you haven’t changed a
bit!” But what you’re thinking is “Doesn’t he or she look old! And they are
the same age as me! It’s very hard, isn’t it, for us to accept that from the
time that we are born we are starting to get older. Some of us have trouble
coping with aging. We try to cover it up with make-up, wigs, hair-dye. It’s
all rather pointless. We can’t stop the process, or even slow it down, much
less start again.
But in our spiritual life it’s quite a different story. When Paul was writing to
the new Christians in Corinth, he encouraged them like this:”Even though
our physical being is gradually decaying, yet our spiritual being is renewed
day after day. For we fix our attention not on the things that are seen, but
on the things that are unseen. What can be seen lasts only for a time but
what cannot be seen lasts forever.” No matter how young or how old we
are in the faith, we can be renewed each day. Instead of mourning our lost
youth we can concentrate our thinking on the newness of our spiritual being
each day and look beyond our frail humanity.

Colin