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I like to think I’m organized, but it seems like more and more, I’m looking for something.  Recently it was a recipe.  “I KNOW it’s in this box.  I’ve always filed it under ‘Desserts,’ but I don’t see it.  I remember that it’s on a recipe card with my mom’s name at the top.  The card looks like watermelon colors.”  I could see it mentally. My eyes were peeled for that color in that box of hundreds of recipe cards of every color. If I could find that recipe I could make some delicious cookies! I did eventually lay my hands on it and found that I was skimming right over top of it because I was looking for the wrong thing.  The card looked completely different than what I pictured.

Growing up, we all heard about “The Golden Years.”  The picture that was painted in my mind was of lawn chairs,, lemonade and leisure! Those senior citizens in my mind’s eye were doing NOTHING except resting or traveling in their RV.  Seemed pretty nice in my youthful mind.  

But as I’ve aged and listened to senior citizens, I’ve heard quite the opposite of that imagined scenario.  I hear Senior Citizens crying, “And these are the Golden years?!  There’s nothing Golden about these years!”  But I’ve come to understand from God’s Word that it isn’t that the Golden years are so horrible, it’s like my search for that cookie recipe, perhaps  the eyes of seniors are missing it because we’re looking for the wrong thing.