The well known author, Madeline L’Engle wrote that “the great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
Getting older does not have to mean loss. Rather, it means collecting a rich store of age bound experiences. Each of these ages offers us an ever growing capacity to see and understand the world through the unique lens of a particular stage of life.
Within each of us is a six year old, a teenager, a young adult just starting out on our own. Those parts of who we are are never fully gone. If we let them be, these past experiences are resources of enthusiasm, hopefulness, and wisdom.
May the Holy One of Blessing enable us to see within ourselves the accumulation of life, not the passing away of time. May this be God’s will--AMEN.
