Life's Changes

It is often said that life’s all about changes. We get married and life changes. Children come and the learning curve goes straight up. The children grow older and present new challenges. Then one day, they grow up, leave home and get married. It doesn’t stop with the empty nest, either. You look at your wife across the breakfast table and say, “Who are you?” If you’re lucky, you’ll remember and fall in love again. The changes continue. Your body starts to tell the effects of old age. Your muscles don’t respond as they used to do. Joints begin to ache. Parts quit working. How will you handle the changes? Dread them? Why? Why not celebrate each new change? When you got married, weren’t you happy? And didn’t joy fill your life when you brought the babies home? Didn’t you beam with pride as they grew and developed? Didn’t your eyes fill up with joyful tears at graduation day, and then later at the wedding? With Christ, you can find comfort in change. “Lo,” he says, “I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Grandma always told me, whenever she handed me one of her dishpan cookies, "Growing older is better than the alternative."