You can't stop TIME..

Well, I cannot stop Father time.. or in my case grandfather time.  I will be 60 in 10 days, and if the calendar did not tell me that.. my body reminds me often.

I can't complain though, or rather I shouldn't complain.  I am in many ways healthier than I was even just a few years ago.  My blood pressure is very good, my weight is down 35 lbs from it's high water mark of 257, and I no longer drink alcohol (should'a figured that one out a long time ago).  Now on the flip side, I now have hearing aides, a stronger bi-focaled eye prescription, and I describe through exaggeration my spine as a shaken up can of Pringles.

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Along with grandfather time shouting into my new hearing aides, he reminds me of my mortality.  When I was 20 this was never a subject I gave much thought to, but that was 40 YEARS AGO.

Ok, so far I have pondered getting older so let's move on to the topic of .. DEATH, and also.. ETERNITY. Oh great you are thinking, now Jeff is going to share his funeral home collection of cartoons. WRONG. :)  I don't have funeral home cartoons.. yet. What I do want to share is the hope of Heaven.  Not like I hope I win the lottery, but a infinitely better reward than a lottery, and with certain (100%) odds of Heaven.

The Apostle Paul writes in 1 Cor 2:9 “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love him.”

Oh death where is your victory, where is your sting?  These are also the words of the Apostle Paul (1 Cor 15:55) not Edgar Alan Poe. Paul continues.. 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Of course, this life does not guarantee us 80, 60, or 20 years, and no matter and our lives are a mere drop in the ocean of eternity.  We cling to this life on Earth so tightly and that seems only right, but let's not hang on too tightly where we lose sight of Heaven.

May God bless each of us with real joy during our lives on Earth even when 'we' become 60 with hearing aides, bi-focaled eyes, and a spine like a shaken up can of Pringles. Sorry, I digressed.  May God find us faithful in the moments that make up this life.

Jeff (achy breaky almost 60) Larson

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