I Hope You Dance!!!

These weeks leading to Good Friday can have a special poignancy as we grow older, a regret that Jesus never lived to middle or old age, but died when he was thirty-three, at the height of his powers. We do not know from the Gospels how he would have coped with sickness, accidents, the loss of friends, failure in work, the slowing of the mind, the lapses of memory, the aching limbs, the sense that life has passed its peak. All these things happened to him suddenly, in twenty-four hours, from Thursday evening to Friday afternoon. To us they happen slowly, with more time for us to accept them well or badly. They are, more than any individual tragedy, our crucifixion, our share in Jesus' fate. Sacred Space, April 4, 2009
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I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
-Nancy Astor, In "Hammer and Tongues," by Brown and O'Connor, 1986
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. -Deepak Chopra
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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. -General Douglas MacArthur
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Thoughts on aging...