{"id":474,"date":"2014-07-04T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/in-the-present-and-accounted-for\/"},"modified":"2014-07-04T03:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T07:00:03","slug":"in-the-present-and-accounted-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/in-the-present-and-accounted-for\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Present And Accounted For"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sr. Nun Other<\/p>\n

I visited someone this week, two years younger, who embraces life with enthusiasm. She’s an artist, loves to travel, and is a natural teacher who uses her gifts to help others. This time, she spoke of growing old and not handling it well. High blood pressure, a sudden onset of eye floaters, and a back-related fall recently required medical assistance. All of the medical personnel she encountered were young and used the phrase “this is quite common in a woman your age.” Ouch. Then information from Medicaid arrived in my mail. I understand her struggle. I went (go) through it myself. While singing the Wednesday’s morning office, I encountered these encouraging words: They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green. <\/em>Psalm 92:13,14<\/p>\n

To all of us of a certain age – isn’t a sunset every bit as beautiful as a sunrise and just as essential?<\/p>\n

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Photo By Sr. Huai-Kuang Miao<\/p>\n

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