Being there for the aged and elderly in our midst!

Thara (who is like my daughter) and me, visited a senior citizen's home this evening. 

Met a 91 year old gentleman there, He asked our names etc. When we told him we just stopped by to say "Hello" to him, he was so..happy. He looked to be from a very good family but said how he does feel lonely now etc. !

When we asked him if we could get him something he liked to eat next time, he said, "No. I get all here" but requested we go meet him whenever we can! 

When we prayed for him and about to leave he 1st held Thara's hands & then my hands and spoke blessing over us! This was priceless! 

What a blessing it was for us!

This reminded of how and why the blessings of the elderly in a family was so important in Biblical times.

This gentleman reminded us, "We all will grow old one day and some don't know that." and sighed!

When we asked another elderly, "What do you want?" the reply was "I want you both to come again." (brought tears in our eyes)

Came home thinking of how true this is! 

When old all one needs is God and people who loved and cared around!

This is the valuable lesson we both learnt today.

May the Lord bless the aged, elderly in our midst!

Good Night,

Julia

We all will grow old one day!

We all will grow old one day and become and behave like a little child.

As a child parents are around to pick up their child who stumbles, take care of them when sick, feed them on time, give their medications on time etc.

But many parents when old have no one to lift them when they fall, take care when sick, feed them good and healthy food and check if they have their medications on time!

Need to know old age is a second childhood and just as we were take care of by our parents as children, the same attention and same care need to be given to our old parents and elders.

This is sad but a fact but God sent His Son Jesus Christ to restore relationships.

God will in the last days turn the heart of fathers to children and children to fathers.

Just because we walk tall today doesn't mean we will not get bent in future!

Julia

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A reminder to respect our elders especially the sick the lonely....

This is such a touching, beautiful poem, please read it through.

God Bless,

Julia

     When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a small hospital near Tampa, Florida, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value.

     Later, when the nurses were going through his meager possessions, they found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that

copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital.

     One nurse took her copy to Missouri . The old man's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas edition of the News Magazine of the St. Louis Association for Mental Health. A slide presentation has also been made based on his simple, but eloquent poem.

     And this little old man, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the author of this "anonymous" poem winging across the Internet.

                            

 Crabby Old man

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What do you see nurses? 

What do you see?

      What are you thinking......

when you're looking at me?

   A crabby old man,not very wise?Uncertain of habit...with faraway eyes...?           Who dribbles his food...and makes no reply?

    When you say in a loud voice....."I do wish you'd try!"

       Who seems not to notice ...the things that you do?

    And forever is losing a sock or shoes?   Who, resisting or not...lets you do as you will,

With bathing and feeding ... the long day to fill?

    Is that what you're thinking?   Is that what you see?

Then open your eyes, nurse......you're not looking at me.

                           

      I'll tell you who I am .... as I sit here so still,

As I do at your bidding, as I eat at your will.

    I'm a small child of Ten......with a father and mother,

  Brothers and sisters .......who loved each other

         A young boy of Sixteen ....with wings on his feet

   Dreaming that soon now. ..........a lover he'll meet.

     A groom soon at Twenty .........my heart gives a leap.

  Remembering the vows........that I promised to keep.

                                         

         At Twenty-Five, now..... I have young of my own.

    Who need me to guide ........ and a secure happy home.

       A man of Thirty....... my young now grown fast,

  Bound to each other .....with ties that should last.

                                         

      At Forty, my young sons have grown and are gone,

 But my woman's beside me........to see I don't mourn.

    At Fifty, once more, ........ babies play 'round my knee,

Again, we know children ......... my loved one and me.

               Dark days are upon me..... my wife is now dead.

  I look at the future .............I shudder with dread.

   For my young are all rearing ........young of their own.

And I think of the years...... and the love that I've known.

         I'm now an old man.........and nature is cruel.

    It is jest to make old age .......look like a fool.

         The body, it crumbles..........grace and vigor, depart.

   There is now a stone........where I once had a heart.

                                         

      But inside this old carcass....a young guy still dwells,

   And now and again .........my battered heart swells.

      I remember the joys............ I remember the pain.

   And I'm loving and living.............life over again.

                                           

       I think of the years, all too few......gone too fast.

    And accept the stark fact........that nothing can last.

        So open your eyes, 

people...open and see..

    Not a crabby old man.  Look closer....see....ME!

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      Remember this poem when you next meet an older person who you  might brush aside without looking at the young soul within...we will all, one day, be there, too!