SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING (1st in series)

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This book was published in 1996 and has been read by and still fills thousands of libraries. I am now making it available for you my friends of this blog. From time to time used copies are available on amazon.com

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This book, SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING, is about dealing positively with the challenges of getting older and fosters the belief that “If we would have new knowledge, we must get a world of new questions.” (Susanne K. Langer)

“I am come that they (you) may have life and have it to the full. (John 10:10)

Anyone who lives long enough gets older. There are no other options. How we handle the adventure is filled with options.

Keep both eyes on life, and not on the calendar. Admit your age, but don’t admit to the fallacy that you have to act like it. Saying, “I’m 39 and holding,” is more tragic than humorous because it argues that age has no attributes.

V. Neil Wyrick


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“If you would live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.”

ATTITUDE

“A negative or positive state of mind.”

“…to be made new in the attitude of your minds.”
Ephesians 4:23 (NIVG)

DON’T GET HUNGH UP ON A HANG UP

The great baseball pitehcer of yesterday, Sachel Page once said, “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”

Which is really asking, is your calendar an enemy as well as a convenience? Are their insights that can help one to meet the morning with a grin more often than a growl? Is it important to believe that age and senility are not necessarily bosom buddies?

In the late 1900’s Chancellor Otto Von Bismark started the whole idea that 65 is automatically old.

There was no scientific study to prove this mathematical assertion. Rather, it grew out of a German job market that had younger workers standing out in the cold. Then, during the great depression, when our Congress instituted the Social Security System, this arbitrary age was accepted as if it were an edict from on high.

But now we are living infinitely longer. And if we survive to sixty-five statistics promise another decade and a half. Therefore, we have to consider retiring to something rather than simply from something. A now I can, why not attitude.

Take sleep for example. After retirement you are no longer a slave to an alarm clock. But now that you don’t have to go to work do you find yourself waking up early anyway? You feel cheated? Don’t. Feel blessed. You now have more time for doing.

“But it also gives me more time to be bored,” said one fellow at a seminar. To which I replied that you can’t expect interesting things to just happen. They won’t come knocking at your door. You must plan your day, or you have planed your day.

In the past necessity may have made you follow a job that took care of your pocketbook but killed your fantasies. Give them life again!

Get yourself some paints and become an artist, even though forty years ago it was too impractical.

Join an amateur drama group, if this was once your dream.

Sign up Habitat for Humanity and build a house.

Join a bowling league.

Serve lunch to the homeless.

Don’t say I have nothing to do. Beef up your choices until your cup is full. Growing old doesn’t have to mean being less active, just active in different ways.

“I’ve planned a Beautify My Life campaign,” said one bright-eyed seventy year old.

“I plan to keep on working, just not as much.”

“I plan to trade in a large home for a larger income.”

The MAGIC word is DO.

Are you willing to take a test?

If so, take out a piece of paper and make a quick drawing of how you see yourself.

Did you draw a picture of someone up and going, or a picture of some torpid creature in a darkened room isolated from the light of life?

Did you draw a picture with a musical note above your head to show there is a song in your heart, or a thunder cloud hovering over your head?

We are how we see ourselves And yes, a positive-self-image can improve mental and physical health. Indeed I love a poster I once saw that read, “Go ahead and touch me. Wrinkles aren’t contagious.”

I recently got into a conversation with a man and his wife in an airport and he told me, “California redwood s are old. Mountains are old Me? I’m just a kid.”

His wife added, “I’m getting old (she was 78) but I’ll probably die before I make it.”

Do I suggest being unabashedly positive and traveling as often as possible down a sunshine road?

Without reservation the answer is a resounding YES! Think spring, not fall. Grow some new leaves. Make retirement or semi-retirement a friend and not an enemy. Better still, a window of opportunity.

Be like the farmer who, when asked what he was building, replied, “if I can rent it, it’s a rustic cottage. If I can’t, it’s a cow shed.”

It’s called attitude and it can make us prematurely old or longer young. For truly, things aren’t just what they are, but rather how we choose to see them.

TO BE CONTINUED NEXT SUNDAY
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM one SERIES on this Wyrick’s Writings site entitled ANGER IS A KILLER. It began Thursday January 6, 2010.

“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies? No?

Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.

Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”

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