Online Bloggers Bookstudy

My friend Heredes is hosting an amazing leadership book study online.

Go check it out for some maximum leadership gems from various leaders.

www.Heredes.com

Pronounced: (Air-uh-des) dot com

(He's from Brazil... cut him some slack:)

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We're young, Then we're old... Ever wonder why?

Ever wonder why we get old, and slowly begin to weaken? Why life seems so short? Well I stumbled across this beautiful devotional today and found it very uplifting. Maybe the circle of life just got demystified:)

“I think God has planned the strength and beauty of youth to be physical. But the strength and beauty of age is spiritual. We gradually lose the strength and beauty that is temporary so we’ll be sure to concentrate on the strength and beauty which is forever. And so we’ll be eager to leave the temporary, deteriorating part of us and be truly homesick for our eternal home. If we stayed young and strong and beautiful, we might never want to leave.”

When we are young, happily occupied with all our relationships and activities, we may not long for our celestial Home. But as time passes, we may find ourselves without family and friends, afflicted with dim vision and hearing difficulties, no longer able to relish food, or troubled by sleeplessness.

Be grateful that, as the apostle Paul wrote in 1 Timothy 6:17, “God . . . gives us richly all things to enjoy” in life’s summer and autumn. And rejoice too that with the onset of life’s winter we can anticipate that we’ll soon be living in the land of eternal spring. —Vernon Grounds (ODB)