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 Mattand he appeared beaming broadly, with a treasure he unearthed!Hockey Card Collection! To we still growing older there is much still left to learnAs we begin to shoulder wisdom we have yet to earnAs we begin to fill the shoes not worn by youthful dreamsBut with meek awareness of dues that sager ken esteemsAs we begin to weather ways, we once thought quite far-flungWhile we were living in the days that seemed forever young To we still growing older because death is held at bayWhere time seems to grow bolder as swift seasons fall awayWe start to sense anew the age-old way staid tick-tock worksAs we begin to do the things that once drew winks and smirksBut 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 strideAs Time begins to show us that it is not on our sideAnd soon we too will join the ranks of neither young nor oldOr rich or poor; then give God thanks as His mercies unfoldThe sacred charge of setting a careful example forYoung men and women whetting raring appetites for more To we still growing older, (where the Done none can undoFor no one can unsolder the door that each day runs through)We reassess the beauties of an unsealed legacyAnd the blessing of duties that befit maturityOf kinder, truer patience as we bear in prayerful mindThe precious generation that is following behind © Janet Martin Eph.5:15  Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise,