Yesterday I changed my profile pic on Facebook to this one.
Since then, I keep looking at it, amazed that there was a time my mom and I were the same height. By the time she died, her osteoporosis was so progressed that she was hardly over five feet tall. Aging is brutal and death is terrible. Time does such cruel things to the body. I'm not talking about the cosmetic stuff--the wrinkles and gray hair and such. I'm talking about disintegrating bones, organs that don't work right anymore, teeth that can't chew, failing senses, a slowing brain, and weakening muscles. As those things wreak their havoc on the body, it can be easy for others to start seeing the person differently--to think that the 85-year-old is someone different from the 45-year-old or 15-year-old. But on the inside, nothing has really changed. That soul, that precious child of God, created by Him and loved by Him, is the same as it has always been. It still gets sad and lonely and afraid. It still wants its mommy. It still needs to feel that it is loved and accepted. It still needs a Savior.
This is Babsy. She is one of Jesus' little lambs, loved by Him fully and unconditionally. She's not sad, lonely or afraid anymore.
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I often think of it from the perspective of a new pastor. He goes into the congregation, and there are all these people who are over 80. They can't see, hear, or walk very well. This young man doesn't know the kinds of questions they were asking in Bible class 50 years ago. He doesn't know what happened in their kids' lives. He doesn't know what their favorite hymns and psalms are. He doesn't know if a weekly (as opposed to monthly) communion visit feels like it's still never enough of the Lord's Supper.
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