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To: Jim Robinson

I just turned 50. It’s gone incredibly fast. 20 years ago I was 30. 20 years from now I’ll be 70. Man……


54 posted on 06/09/2024 4:53:51 PM PDT by bethelgrad
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To: bethelgrad

I’m about to be 57.
20 years ago seems like 5 years ago.
20 years from now I’ll be 76.

It’s a scary thought..


61 posted on 06/09/2024 5:00:43 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: bethelgrad
I got old last year. It just kind of hits you suddenly. I looked in the mirror and there it was. I realized I had crossed the line. I would love to be 50. I know now how young I was at 50 and you are, too.

Last year I received a word that I would die this year. Maybe I misunderstood it. But "The days of our years are threescore and ten; and if by reason of strength they be four score years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow, and we fly away...So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." (Psalm 90:20-11)

149 posted on 06/09/2024 7:25:06 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina (The time is out of joint. - Hamlet)
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To: bethelgrad
I got old last year. It just kind of hits you suddenly. I looked in the mirror and there it was. I realized I had crossed the line. I would love to be 50. I know now how young I was at 50 - and you are, too.

Last year I received a word that I would die this year. Maybe I misunderstood it. But "The days of our years are threescore and ten; and if by reason of strength they be four score years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow, and we fly away...So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." (Psalm 90:20-11)

So that's what I do - try to grow in the application of wisdom. For me that means not succumbing to the temptation to despair but to vigorously invest emotionally and in deed in my family, in Scripture, in prayer. It doesn't happen automatically for me. I have to be deliberate and intentional about it.

155 posted on 06/09/2024 7:37:03 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina (The time is out of joint. - Hamlet)
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To: bethelgrad

We went to a birthday party recently For a man who had just turned 70. Chris took me aside and says in 20 years I’ll be the same age as him. and I said that’s nothing. in 22 years i’ll be 100. how about them apples.


257 posted on 06/10/2024 3:38:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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