All Gracious God, you have given me all I am and have, and now I give it back to you to stand under Your will alone.In a special way I give You these later years of my life. I am one of those called by You into old age, a call not given to all.not given […]
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May Christ keep me ever young “to the greater glory of God.”For old age comes from Him, old age leads to Him,and old age will touch me only insofar as He wills.To be “young” means to be hopeful, energetic, smiling—and clear-sighted. May I accept death in whatever guise it may come to me in Christ,that […]
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Dearest Lord, teach me to grow old gracefully. Help me to see that my community does me no wrong when gradually it takes from me my duties; when it no longer seems to seek my views. Rid me of my pride in all the “wisdom” I have learned. Rid me of the illusion that I […]
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When the signs of age begin to mark my body(and still more when they touch my mind);when the ill that is to diminish me or carry me offstrikes from without or is born within me;when the painful moment comesin which I suddenly awakento the fact that I am ill or growing old;and above all at […]
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More than ever I find myself in the hands of God.This is what I have wanted all my life from my youth.But now there is a difference;the initiative is entirely with God.It is indeed a profound spiritual experienceto know and feel myself so totally in God’s hands.
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Lord,Though knowest better than I know myselfthat I amgrowing older and will some day be old.Keep me from the fatalhabit of thinking I must say something on every subjectand on every occasion.Release me from craving to straighten outeverybody’s affairs.Make me thoughtful but not moody;helpful but not bossy. With my vast store of wisdom, it seems […]
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