Getting Old

 

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wastingaway, our inner nature is being renewed every day. For this slight momentaryaffliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond allcomparison, because we look not to the things that are seen but to the thingsthat are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the thingsthat are unseen are eternal. For we know that if the earthly tent we live in isdestroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal inthe heavens. – 2 Corinthians

This second reading at yesterday’s mass is an encouragingone for those of us getting on in years.

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