After
conducting a series of interviews with elderly people, author Don Gold
published the book Until the Singing Stops: A Celebration of Life and Old
Age in America.
Gold
loved and admired his grandmother, and it was the memory of her that moved him
to meet and learn from other elderly people. He recalls that on the way to one
of his interviews, he got lost on a dusty country road in Missouri. When he
pulled into a farm to ask for directions, a teenager came up, listened,
shrugged his shoulders, and then replied, “Don’t know.” So he drove on. A few
miles farther down the road, he stopped again at a farmhouse. The farmer, who
was an old man, graciously gave him flawless directions.
Perhaps,
Gold mused, that experience sums up what he was searching for when the memory
of his grandmother sent him out to find people like her. He was looking for
someone to guide him in his life journey.
If you’re
“young,” seek out older people who have been drinking deeply from God’s love
and goodness throughout their life. They have wisdom to share that will help
you so that you also might flourish and grow in your faith (Ps. 92:12-14).
Fellowship
with God is the secret of fruitfulness for Him. (RBC)
