Dec.01.03: Light For The Day - "Aging" -- Proverbs 16:31  "Gray hair is a crown of glory;  it is gained in a righteous life." ------------ Someone Once Said … - The cure for age is interest and enthusiasm and work.  Life’s evening will take its character from the day which  has preceded it. -George Matheson, blind poet and hymnist - There is a blessedness about old age that  we young men know nothing of. —Charles Spurgeon - The time of old age, with all its infirmities,  seems to me to be a time of peculiar blessedness  and privilege to the Christian. —Charles Spurgeon - The first half of our lives we are romantic.  The last half we are rheumatic. —Vance Havner ----------------- Why Does God Let Us Get Old? Robertson McQuilkin, former esteemed president of Columbia  International University in Columbia, South Carolina,  once drove an elderly friend on an errand. She moved slowly  and painfully, being crippled with arthritis. “Robertson,” she asked as they drove along,  “why does God let us get old and weak? Why must I hurt so?” “I’m not sure,” McQuilkin replied, “but I have a theory.” “What is it?” He hesitated to share it, but she insisted.  This is what he said:  “I think God has planned the strength and beauty of youth  to be physical. But the strength and beauty of age is spiritual. We gradually lose the strength and beauty that is temporary,  so we’ll be sure to concentrate on the strength and beauty  which is forever.” ----------------- -- Job 8:8-10 8 "Ask the former generations and find out what  their fathers learned, 9 for we were born only yesterday and know nothing,  and our days on earth are but a shadow. 10 Will they not instruct you and tell you?  Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?"