Looking Back

I’m still considering older folks who have trouble coming to grips with aging and their physical limitations. Rather than accepting their present situation, or looking toward the future, they seem to be looking back to yesteryear and lamenting their lost abilities. Although Jesus was speaking specifically about the coming of the Kingdom of God, I find His warning about going back for possessions, or looking back on one’s former life, as being applicable to aging. “Remember Lot’s wife! Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it” (Luke 17:32-33 NIV).