Young at Heart

This message is to those of us who are growing older and those who will get there before you know it. I'm always hearing people complain about growing old. I see them "give up" on life and act old when there is still usefulness in their lives. As I get older my knees pop when I get up, my back aches, I need glasses to read, my hair is gray and a little thinner and the joints in my hands struggle with arthritis. However, in reality as we grow older our age is really in our minds. Of course we are physically limited and can't do at 60+ what we could do at 20, but that doesn't mean we have to act old. To be old doesn't have to mean to be useless. It doesn't have to mean outdated. We don't have to be seen as people caught in the past.

Jimmy Durante (I guess this shows my age even mentioning his name) sang a song written by Johnny Richards with lyrics by Carolyn Leigh entitled "Young at Heart" Here are the words:

Fairy tales can come true,
It can happen to you,
If your young at heart.
For it's hard you will find
To be narrow of mind
If you're young at heart.
You can go to extremes
With impossible dreams,
You can laugh
When your dreams
Fall apart at the seams.
And life becomes exciting
With each passing day,
And love is either in your heart
Or on it's way.
Don't you know
That it's worth
Every treasure on earth
To be young at heart.
And as rich as you are
You're much better by far,
To be young at heart.
And if you should survive
To a hundred and five,
Look at all you'll derive
By just being alive.
Now here is the best part,
You have a head start,
If you are amongst the very young...
At heart."

Following is a video sent to me of a couple in their 90's at the Mayo Clinic. It shows life can still be fun as we continue to grow older.

Remember: "The glory of young men is their strength, gray hair the splendor of the old." Proverbs 20:29