The door opens and a woman comes in leaning on a cane. A man followers her who is limping, but makes certain that she finds a seat while he checks them in at the doctor's office.   How often does one look at them with a kind of pity? 

 But wait, we know nothing about them.

  We could ask them, if we were so bold, "What have you seen in life?  What has given you joy?  What have been your struggles?   

In this blog, I am going to tell you about someone special and a great writing that was recently sent to me. 

First, I am no young chick!  In my next birthday, I will be 87 years old.

Yet, I am blessed with good health...

A wonderful husband

and I have seen the world when I taught English in Mongolia and Ukraine and represented Florida in Japan.

I've taken  young people all around Europe as a teacher advisor and now I'm retired. 

I didn't just sit down and wait to die!

I believed that my life, lived and living means something

so I write books, speak to mainly church groups and enjoy my deer that come to my back door. 

I  look at nature a new way...it's beauty...and sometimes I look at the clouds and wonder when Christ 

will come to make the world a new place.  He will someday.  I say that because my life has been changed by 

my Christian faith. 

Enough about me, what about the older people I have know?

Have you ever asked elderly relatives or neighbors to tell you about themselves?

Could what they tell you possibly make a difference in your life?

GIVE IT A TRY. YOU MAY BE AMAZED!

The slides below are of my Uncle John.   He lived to be 102 years.  You notice that I didn't say "years old" because even when he was 100, he was out mowing his yard and going up and down the hills in North Carolina, with only a little help from a cane.   He had been a golfing champion with many trophies; owned his own business; built a house that some drug dealers burned down.   He knew happiness and great disappointments. He also knew what it was like to live through World War II, with many difficulties for all Americans.  Some of his family worked in the factories to make military equipment for those in harm's way for freedom. 

  Uncle John  loved life and people.  He enjoyed children, his neighbors and friends who came to see him regularly.    LIFE DID NOT PASS HIM BY BECAUSE HE WAS DETERMINED TO NOT ALLOW IT TO DO SO. 

 When he was finally unable to run up and down those hills, he had to have special help. He knew it was necessary, but it wasn't one of his joys even though he was grateful.   I wonder how many relatives or people he knew ever spent time with him because they wanted to learn from his long life what could make their lives better?    BIG QUESTION...no real answer.    

 Perhaps you know an older person that you need to visit, just to learn more about living life to its fullest.  It may be helpful

to you someday, because even if you are a young person with life ahead of you,  your day of being older will come unless you

act like a total fool and go too fast or try to text while driving ;  take drugs or go with the wrong people. Then it could end too soon!

Enough of my sermon,  so let's just take a look at UNCLE JOHN ELLIS.  

RECENTLY, THIS WRITING BY SEAN DIETRICH WAS SENT TO ME. 

I HOPE IT WILL BE MEANING TO YOU WHEN IT COMES TO APPRECIATING OLDER PEOPLE AND THE WISDOM THAT THEY HAVE. 

"CHURCH LADIES" 

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VIDEO ON THE WISDOM  AMD VISION OF OLDER PEOPLE TO TRUST GOD  by Scott Howell 

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