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Getting Old
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A sweet, elderly lady that goes to our church
approached me after the Sunday meeting was over.
Her son was helping her walk down the aisle. The

son is almost seventy, so this mother was no spring
chicken.
“I’m so sorry about missing your daughter’s
reception last night,” the lady said to me. “That is

one thing about getting old; I forget important
things more and more all the time.”
“The thing I hate about getting old,” the son

chimed in, “is the aches and pains. When I try to
get some work done, I feel the effects of it for
days.”
The lady turned to her son. “Old, my foot!

You don’t know anything about getting old. I
could still remember important things at your age,
and though there were a few aches and pains, they

were nothing like when you get to my age. When
you get past eighty, the aches and pains are not a
now-and-then thing caused by work. They are a
constant caused by living.”

“But at your age, you can slow down,” the son
said. “You don’t have as many things you need to
do.”

“Or maybe it is just that there are more things
I can’t do,” the mother said.

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