CHOOSE...THEN SERVE

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. -- Leon Trotsky

Now there's a truth. What's so stupefying is the many surprises old age brings. We hear about the aches, pains, ailments of old age from early on. Unfortunately that's all true. However, it is only in arriving there...and so soon!...that we experience things no one ever talked about. (Or was it that we weren't listening...hey, old age is not about me!) We sometimes feel an unease, a doubt of our abilities, an uncertainty that seems to hover without ever landing.

Those who never left the false security of our reasoning mind are forced to rely on self solutions...double up on meds or triple up on meds. And carp, cry, complain. That's the reasoning mind on parade when it finds itself left all alone.

Those who threw in with still more spiritual growth get an inside rush for, once again, here's comes God to save the day! We get the golden goose reminder that the solution to our problems is rarely if ever what we have in mind. My old-age want list is that I quit with the aches and pains already, get my 20-year-old's self confidence back, and fuller hair, please and thank you.

This is how we learn that bottomless truth, spiritual principles can solve all our problems. My aches and pains are here to stay...but for the first time I am doing an hour of exercise every morning...and enjoying it! My 20-year-old self confidence went the way of my 20-year-old me...so I'm asking friends for an arm to lean on, or to go with me when I'm feeling uncertain. Fuller hair...I'm holding out for it not getting any thinner. Ego dies hard, and Lucy has her standards.

So the solution to all our problems is: Surrender to and accept that which is. Then get grateful that we can change our life's circumstances by getting out of what we want and getting grateful for what we got.

Upgrade our attitude, we upgrade our problems. But only if we choose to, and there it is...our choice. Choose you this day whom ye shall serve.

Thank you.