Getting Old

What's it like to be 'getting old' ?
There are several ways to 'look' at this question and from time to time I will address this issue from different 'points of view'.

First off , if given a choice, people would not choose the option of 'getting old' they prefer the option of staying young.
'Young' is ,for sure ,more fun.
Well you can do most anything when you are young. You can live forever. You can climb the highest mountain and you can do it after a weekend of 'party hearty' and a wicked hangover..
You can't do that when you are 'old'. Actually you can't do ANY of that. You can't live forever-you can't climb the highest mountain-you can't 'party hearty' and you ,surely , can't do it after a hangover.
But todays point of view is that-one thing you CAN do that you cannot do when you are young is this--
You can sit back and look at a Mountain-not a mountain to climb-but a 'mountain' that you have allready climbed. A mountain of Memory's . A huge massive mountain of Memory's. You can sit on the top of that mountain and look down and see all that you have 'climbed'. The 'view' is really awesome. Yeah-of course there were bears and lions and tigers and sometimes worse. Beasts that attacked your body as well as your soul but somehow you 'shook' them off. Bathed your wounds in the mountain's streams had a little more to eat and drink of the honey of life and climbed higher. Higher to here. Here where you can sit and smile. Journey's not over, for sure-more hilltops ahead but you can sit and enjoy the 'scenery' for a bit. You have earned that 'rank' if you will.
Yes I am telling you that the ' 'view' ' is sometimes--well sometimes it almost takes your breath away.
you can sit on that mountain top any time you choose and let it all unfold before your eyes.
I hope and pray that most folks get to feel that way.
I mean I know that lot's of folks do not get to feel that way. They feel that the 'mountain of their life 'was much too tough to climb. I know that-wish i could change it for them--but I firml;y believe--now I repeat-firmly believe that we DO lead many lifes and what we do here is in preperation for the next journey. So maybe all that pain , for some, has a 'higher purpose'.
Why do I believe that we have many lives ?. Well I have studied the subject for almost fifty years. At first I laughed at the thought but not anymore. Well that brings us back to Edgar Caycee. But that is not the 'point' of todays 'sermon'-hey it is Sunday- the point of today is the 'Mountain' and all of it's glory. The higher you go the more staggering the 'view',
Thanks for listening.