Today's Daily Bread
Planted In The House Of The Lord
After conducting a series of interviews with elderly people, author Don Gold published the book Until the Singing Stops: A Celebration of Life and Old Age in America.
Gold loved and admired his grandmother, and it was the memory of her
that moved him to meet and learn from other elderly people. He recalls
that on the way to one of his interviews, he got lost on a dusty country
road in Missouri. When he pulled into a farm to ask for directions, a
teenager came up, listened, shrugged his shoulders, and then replied,
“Don’t know.” So he drove on. A few miles farther down the road, he
stopped again at a farmhouse. The farmer, who was an old man, graciously
gave him flawless directions.
Perhaps, Gold mused, that experience sums up what he was searching
for when the memory of his grandmother sent him out to find people like
her. He was looking for someone to guide him in his life journey.
If you’re “young,” seek out older people who have been drinking
deeply from God’s love and goodness throughout their life. They have
wisdom to share that will help you so that you also might flourish and
grow in your faith (Ps. 92:12-14).
Dear Jesus, take my heart and hand,
And grant me this, I pray:
That I through Your sweet love may grow
More like You day by day. —Garrison
And grant me this, I pray:
That I through Your sweet love may grow
More like You day by day. —Garrison
Fellowship with Christ is the secret of fruitfulness for Him.
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