To We, Still Growing Older

Accomplishment/achievement happens one challenge/step forward at a time!

 Sometimes challenges take years to fully complete,

 some even a lifetime(such as a life well lived). 

And because nothing ever stays the same for very long the challenge is constant, isn't it?!! 

Listening to two funeral messages/tributes where children and grandchildren

 rose to call their mother and grandmother 'blessed' 

is such an inspiration to we still growing older 

and seeking to honor God in the season we are in!

Because sometimes what in the moment seems quite commonplace

 is in fact composing cherished memories and legacies! 

Titus 2:3-5(NKJV)

But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine:

 2 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers,

 not given to much wine, teachers of good things— 

4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands,

 to love their children, 5 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, 

good, obedient to their own husbands, 

that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

Photo shared with their Daddy's permission😅💖

When we have no other engagements Sunday Supper at Gramma's & Grandpa's house 

has become a highlight for both the young and old!

Last night Grandsonny went exploring in the room that used to belong to Uncle Matt

and he appeared beaming broadly, with a treasure he unearthed!

Hockey Card Collection!

To we still growing older there is much still left to learn

As we begin to shoulder wisdom we have yet to earn

As we begin to fill the shoes not worn by youthful dreams

But with meek awareness of dues that sager ken esteems

As we begin to weather ways, we once thought quite far-flung

While we were living in the days that seemed forever young

To we still growing older because death is held at bay

Where time seems to grow bolder as swift seasons fall away

We start to sense anew the age-old way staid tick-tock works

As we begin to do the things that once drew winks and smirks

But we excused with kindness because, ‘they are old, you see;

Who knows, with youth behind us what kind of ‘old’ we will be?!’

To we of slowing footsteps there is much to take in stride

As Time begins to show us that it is not on our side

And soon we too will join the ranks of neither young nor old

Or rich or poor; then give God thanks as His mercies unfold

The sacred charge of setting a careful example for

Young men and women whetting raring appetites for more

To we still growing older, (where the Done none can undo

For no one can unsolder the door that each day runs through)

We reassess the beauties of an unsealed legacy

And the blessing of duties that befit maturity

Of kinder, truer patience as we bear in prayerful mind

The precious generation that is following behind

© Janet Martin

Eph.5:15

  Be very careful, then, how you live—

not as unwise but as wise,