Celebrate Your Age!

 

Our society is far too obsessed with youth. After all, we are young for such a short time, then spend the rest of our lives trying to recapture the firm bellies, wrinkleless faces, and acheless joints of our early years. Or do we?

Would it not be wiser to celebrate every year gained, every ounce of wisdom and each hard lesson learned? I am encouraged by these heros who proved that you don't have to be young to win:

At age 59, Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe;

Agatha Christie wrote The Mousetrap (the longest running play in history) at age 64;

Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became president;

At age 76, Grandma Moses began to paint;

Michaelangelo, at age 88, crafted the Rondandini Pieta, a sculpture of an old man holding Christ, what some believe to be his most compelling sculpture;

Leopoli Stokowski signed a six-year recording contract at age 94, and

Ichijirou was 100 when he climbed Mt. Fuji.

I will be 58 next Wednesday, August 14. I am eager to see what God has in store for me in the next four or five decades.

What about you? Don't let society tell you you're washed up after your 30th, 40th, or 70th birthday. Keep dreaming, planning, seeking God's will, and celebrate your age!

Never, never, never give up!

Ever feel like you’ll run out of time before you accomplish all your dreams and plans? Before you quit, you may want to read these stats:

• Colonel Harland Sanders was 65 when he launched his Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise business;
• Grandma Moses was 78 when she began oil painting;
• Laura Ingalls Wilder was 65 when she started writing her Little House on the Prairie series;

And Myrrha Stanford-Smith, an 82-year-old teacher, just landed a 3-book deal for her fictional accounts of William Shakespeare. Read about it here.

Makes you want to go out and skip some rope, doesn’t it?

Please don't give up on your dreams.

God hasn't.

Follow Him; He'll lead you to the fulfillment of all your dreams,
and more.