Growing old

I'm not sure why I'm attracted to verses about growing old this morning, but it is what it is.
I don't remember ever fearing growing old and for that I am grateful. I have had a great life and I view each day as a gift. Life is a privilege that I hope to enjoy for a long time and I don't want to miss out on a minute of it. If I could change one thing about life, however, it would be that we could be given the gifts of the wisdom and experience of old age at the same time we enjoyed a young and energetic body, but that wasn't God's plan so I suspect He knows something that I don't on that subject.
Enough rambling. I'm ready to focus on a few of God's promises regarding old age:
"Even when you are old, I will be the same. Even when your hair has turned gray, I will take care of you. I made you and I will take care of you. I will carry you and save you."-Isaiah 46:4 (NCV).
And I am here to tell you, gray hairs and all, that the above verse is absolutely true!
"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man [older], I put childish ways behind me."-1 Corinthians 13:11 (NIV).
I had a great childhood but there's no doubt in my mind that I'd rather be right where I am than back in my younger years. Life just gets better and better!
"God, You have taught me since I was young. To this day I tell about the miracles You do. Even though I am old and gray, do not leave me, God. I will tell the children about Your power; I will tell those who live after me about Your might."-Psalm 71:17,18 (NCV).
And I can read the above verses in Psalm 71, confident that He will never leave me. What a wonderful promise.
Max Lucado, in his own inimitable way, sums it all up in a few concise thoughts:
"Aging? A necessary process to pass on to a better world.
Death? Merely a brief passage, a tunnel.
There, was that so bad?"-Max Lucado (God Came Near).
Today I am grateful for the privilege of growing old, and at the same time I ask for the privilege of growing older. There's just so much left to see and experience!
And I have just discovered, as I re-read this post, another blessing of old age. When I re-visit topics of past blogs, which I often do, I find that I have totally forgotten what I wrote back then so it's new all over again😊

On the health front:
Aside from being held captive in my own home by unmanageable white blood cells, I feel great.
Thank you, my Great Physician.