1. “Wisdom is with aged men, and with length of days, understanding” Job 12:12

2. Biblical Guidance Through the

3. “I have been young, and now am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread.” Psalms 37:25

4. “…I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up…”

5. “…for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing” 2 Timothy 4:6-8

6. Facing Disrespect Challenges of Old Age

7. “You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD.” Leviticus 19:2

8. “Go up, you baldhead!” 2 Kings 2:23

9. “So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the LORD. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.” 2 Kings 2:24.

10. Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, “A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!” Robert Browning

11. Facing Disrespect “Good ‘Ole Days” vs. The Present Challenges of Old Age

12. “A person by living long sees many things that he does not want.” Cicero, From De Senectute “On Old Age” Quoting Caecilius

13. “Do not say, ‘Why were the former days better than these?’ For you do not inquire wisely concerning this” Ecclesiastes 7:10

14. Facing Disrespect “Good ‘Ole Days” vs. The Present Loneliness and Neglect Challenges of Ols Age

15. “…If any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God.” 1 Timothy 5:4

16. “For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ But you say, “If a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban’— (that is, a gift to God),” then you no longer let him do anything …”

17. “…for his father or his mother, making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do” Mark 7:10-13

18. “Children’s children are the crown of old men, And the glory of children is their father” Proverbs 17:6

19. Facing Disrespect “Good ‘Ole Days” vs. The Present Loneliness and Neglect Challenges of Ols Age Aging Gracefully

20. “The nearer death’s day, the more old men should play” Anaceron Odes, Ode vii, 1.9, Stevenson

21. William Wordsworth My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old. Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And could I wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

22. “When you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish” John 21:18

23. Offer Wisdom Anyway – Job 12:12 1 Biblical Guidance for Old Age “Wisdom is with aged men, And with length of days, understanding.”

24. “You take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world and there wouldn’t be enough left to run it” Henry Ford

25. “Early adulthood is naturally rash; sound sense only comes with advancing years” Cicero, De Senectute

26. “The silver-haired head is a crown of glory, If it is found in the way of righteousness” Proverbs 16:31

27. Be Willing to Listen to the Young – Ecc. 4:13 2 Biblical Guidance for Old Age “Better a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more.”

28. “I said, ‘Age should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom.’ But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding. Great men are not always wise, Nor do the aged always understand justice. Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me, I also will declare my opinion.’” Job 32:7-10

29. “When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.” Burgess, Look Eleven Years Younger, pg. 174

30. “Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion” Romans 12:16

31. “Youth supplies us with color, age with canvass” H. D. Thoreau, Winter, January 26, 1852

32. Stay Busy in Service – Titus 2:1,2 3 Biblical Guidance for Old Age “But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience.”

33. “If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.” President James Garfield

34. “I never hear of an old man forgetting where he buried his money! Old people remember what interests them…” Cicero, De Senectute

35. Keep Being an Example – 1 Peter 5:5 4 Biblical Guidance for Old Age “Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for ‘God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.’”

36. “The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those who are planted in the house of the LORD Shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing, To declare that the LORD is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.” Psalms 92:12-15

37. The Bridge Builder by Will Allen Dromgoole An old man going a lone highway Came at the evening, cold and gray, To a chasm vast and wide and steep, With waters rolling cold and deep. The old man crossed in the twilight dim, The sullen stream had no fears for him; But he turned when safe on the other side, And built a bridge to span the tide.

38. The Bridge Builder by Will Allen Dromgoole “Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near, “You are wasting your strength with building here. Your journey will end with the ending of day, You never again will pass this way. You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide, Why build you this bridge at eventide?”

39. The Bridge Builder by Will Allen Dromgoole The builder lifted his old gray head. “Good friend, the path I have come,” he said, “There followeth after me today A youth whose feet must pass this way. The chasm that was as nought to me To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be; He, too, must cross in the twighlight dim- Good friend I am building this bridge for him”