50 Years

I am approaching my 50th birthday. The momentous event makes me realize I am not where I thought I would be nor have I accomplished the things I hoped I would by this point in my life.

I've discovered you cannot escape the advancing years. Youth stays long enough only to strengthen our shoulders for the burdens ahead. Life leads inevitably to the evening time. But the best things are the oldest things—things that have endured and stood the test of time. Even God Himself—though not bound by time—is called the Ancient of Days (Daniel 7:9).

So remind me of the blessings I've enjoyed thus far. For if I had not lived this life, I might not have met you and experienced the friendship God intended me to enjoy.

"Even to your old age and gray hairs I am He, I am He who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you." Isaiah 46:4