I recently had a conversation with a customer at Starbucks whose husband has Alzheimer's. While everything in his mind is being confused and forgotten he can still remember the names of World War 2 air crafts.
He was in the air force. He loved building model planes. He loved to study planes. Planes were so engrained in his mind that even as his mind is fading, air craft facts cannot help but burst out of him.
My expectation for my old life is that I will get Alzheimer's. I have family history and I myself am already quite forgetful and absent-minded. But, after hearing this story -- I want to be sure that I am preparing my diseased mind to spill out with Scripture and words of grace. I want to so love Him and know His Word that I remember Scripture even when my brain no longer operates properly.
(I have A LOT of work ahead of me...)
At the nursing home I now go to weekly, I see many old people who are sick.
That's coming for all of us. What are we doing with our "youth" (at whatever stage we may have it,) NOW? While we can still move and groove (haha) freely, how are we/am I choosing to use the youth the Lord has given me?
When I am old, I want to be satisfied with how I used my energy. I don't want to regret laziness.
(I best get going then...that's intimidating...Where do I start? Where do I go? How much do I do?)
While reading "Radical" by David Platt I was inspired by an anecdote told about a 70-year-old couple who help with disaster relief in foreign countries. WOW!
Let it be said of me!!!
If I get to keep the powers of my mind as well as my bodily functions -- let me be an example to the young ones! Let me keep on working!! No retirement!!
Even if my brain fails and my body can no longer be controlled by me -- may I glorify the Lord.
Let me invest NOW to produce THEN.
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