During the recent new year visits to friends and relatives' homes, I believe many of us would have encountered responses like " Look how much your children have grown - taller than the parents already" or "Hey, you have not aged since we last met - what's your secret" or " Well well well, look at us, it seems like only yesterday when we were children collecting 'ang pows' and now look at the young ones - how much they have grown and this also means how much we have aged..hahahaha"
We had conversations with my generations about our age being in the 50's - and invariably the conversations turned to the lessons, joys, and blessings we found in living those 50+ years, and some even said, “You know, it isn’t really that bad. In fact, it’s pretty exciting.”
The lessons of the past can help to bring about a change in how we view the present.
Such is the aging process. We learn from our past in order to live in our present—a lesson reflected on by the psalmist:
“For You are my hope, O Lord God; You are my trust from my youth” (Ps. 71:5).
He continued, “By You I have been upheld from birth; You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb. My praise shall be continually of You” (v.6). As the psalmist looked back, he clearly saw the faithfulness of God. With confidence in that faithfulness, he could face the future and its uncertainties—and so can we.
For Business Growth:
"When sales are down and debts are high, stay positive and fight another round.
It's only the end when we lose hope and faith in ourselves and do nothing"
For Personal Growth:
"We don't stop laughing because we have grown old, rather, we grow old because we have stopped laughing"
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