Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. 

~Samuel Ullman

The Right Door by Rev. Carol Hermann.

Excerpt from The Cup of our Life, by Joyce Rupp

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me. I want people to know “why” I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved. ~Author Unknown

Go as far as you can see. Then when you get there, you'll be able to see further. ~Author Unknown

We hope that the day will come when to be called old is a compliment rather than a put-down—a day when old age becomes a badge of honor denoting experience and wisdom rather than mere frailty and need. Sometimes true wisdom only comes with the experience of limitation and vulnerability—with the experience of our essential humanity. It is possible to gain this perspective when one is younger, but it often takes age. Older care-receivers not only can embody this perspective, but also can live it and speak about it in ways that help temporarily able-bodied caregivers learn about—and prepare for—the intrinsically human experience which disability reflects. ~From Spirituality and the Experience of Care:Teaching the ‘Temporarily Able-Bodied,’ by Donald Koepke and Marty Richards