I just bought The ESV Study Bible
I just sat there with my mouth hanging open. I was drooling a little bit. My back was hurting. I forgot what I was even doing for a couple of minutes. And then I thought to myself, “you know, I am getting older… but I am not OLD.” In fact, it dawned on me that as long as I keep getting older, I can never be OLD. It’s a stopping place. It’s like walking to the grocery store, but never actually going in the front door. When people ask where you are going, you say, “to the grocery store.” And if they say, “it’s right there,” you can laugh and just say, “well I am not ready to go in there yet, I actually like walking to the gorcery store.” Of course, you’ll starve, but you get my point.
Getting older is sometimes downright depressing. But, if we can take the time to laugh at life, at ourselves, I don’t think we’ll ever stop at OLD. My mother taught me how to laugh. She raised me up to become a laughter loving fool. She worried so much about getting old. And I understand better each day what she was going through. Still, she made my brothers and l laugh. She gave us the greatest gift of all; she gave us a life of laughter.
I miss her so very much. I miss her laugh.
By the way, I bought the small print bible. I was squinting when I went to hit the checkout button, but I suddenly felt so young and alive.
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LOL. I bought Pete a large print Bible for Christmas one year. He was having so much trouble reading the smaller print one he had. It seemed stressful for him when it was his turn to read out loud at Bible study group. He opened the present and had a shocked yet slightly irritated expression on his face that said, “You’ve got to be kidding.” He said, “This is what old people use!” Needless to say, he never even took the plastic wrap off, and I ended up selling it at half.com. A similar reaction came when I showed him he was getting AARP offers in the mail. As he leaned against the kitchen counter staring at the envelope in his hand, he knew he had arrived.