Hope - what C.S. Lewis has to say?

 “Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.

“At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the pleasures we see. But all the pages of the New Testament are rustling with the rumor that it will not always be so. Someday, God willing, we shall get “in”… We will put on glory… that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

We do not want to merely “see” beauty–though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words–to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.

Quotes on Old Age

- The old are in a second childhood. 

- The last of life, for which the first was made. 

-When we're young we have faith in what is seen, but when we're old we know that what is seen is traced in air and built on water.

- Old men’s prayers for death are laying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them. 

- There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure. 

-All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old. 

Think it Over…

Knowledge

Knowledge is a fruit; wisdom is NOT putting it in a Fruit Salad.

Encourage. 

Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.

Thoughts 

Broken things become useful in God’s hands.

Sooner or later you’ll have to face God.

Have faith in God - not faith in faith.

Christ is the reason for the season.