Each year there is a week-long celebration in Branson, Missouri, when this tiny town, made famous with its family-friendly entertainment, rolls out the red carpet for Veterans Day (November 11). Veterans come from all over the USA for a wonderful time of remembrance and honor of this special day.
Now these wonderful men and women who have served us so honorably have two choices in life. They can celebrate--as they do--with vitality, vigor and victory--or they can vegetate somewhere in a dark, depressed cavern of lost memories, lost limbs and latent fears of the past, present and future. Some of them have been to hell and back--their war stories prove it--but they are alive, wonderful, fun-loving, God-and-country-loving people who grace our world each day.
Another celebration takes priority each November 12--in Peggie's REAL place, when Father Time turns the time clock to another year of love, life and laughter. Now never mind the decade in which this wretched man has me captive--all I know is that I don't feel it, I don't act it, I don't look it--and I'm not gonna sweat it! AHA, I really said that--and it's all true except for the sweat part--for there are days that I DO sweat it, I DO fret it, and phooey, might as well 'fess it--I don't like getting old!
Don't ask me where I'm going with this treatise on aging--but I am certainly not on my way to the nearest rocking chair to sit and decay until death do us part! So keep your eye on this totterin', wrinklin', creakin', OLD woman--cause she's about to knock the socks off the man with the time clock--he better run for his life! I'm RUNNING for mine--thanking God for every minute and memory He's given and looking forward, by His grace, to quite a few more...so cancel the cane and let the celebration begin!
Won't you join me, seniors around the world, to celebrate the life God gives us all--yes, wrinkles, whacked-out backs, weary bones and WHATEVER--we're ALIVE! He created us to enjoy life, learning and laughter all the days He has designed us to BE--and that let us be to His glory and praise!
Featured links: Great Godly Grandparents at Peggie's Place
Daily Living for Seniors devotional
"I cried, 'Carry Me, Daddy,' and He did!" - A tribute to my late pastor/dad
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After-Retirement Anxiety and Depression
When I Am a Old Woman by Jenny Joseph
Copyright 2007 by Peggie Bohanon, Springfield, MO. All rights reserved.
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