Embrace Your Journey
Complaints About Aging It’s fall and things are starting to die and look old. Sort of like my disabled body and Chris’ 65-year-old body. I have issues with Parkinson’s, but Chris just has issues with being old. It’s not just him. It’s all of our friends as well. We all complain about our situations, but every human being that ever lived had to endure the same journey of getting old. I finally had to tell Chris that he was complaining too much. Soon after my admonition we were shopping in the gift section of one of my favorite stores across the river in Minnesota and he found a custom wood sign with an inscribed quote. He carefully placed the sign on my lap, took a photo with his phone, and said, “Next blog.” The Analogy of a Journey In that store a light bulb of revelation turned on in both of us and we decided to stop complaining, be more like Christ, and embrace the journey, our journey, while we still had a road to travel on. In early October flowers, greeting cards, candles, ...