Happy Birthday, David!
Today my only brother and eldest sibling, David, turned 59.
"Fifty-nine?!! How can I possibly have a brother that old?" I thought at Mass as I prayed for him. "He's been AARP eligible for FIVE years! He's going to be 60 next year! He may retire from teaching in a few years, if he wants!"
Then a few moments I thought, "In eleven years I'LL be preparing to turn 59. It'll be 2018. I'll have been ordained more than twenty-five years."
Then I thought, "How peculiar that I should presume to be alive in eleven years."
There's no guarantee that I'll be alive tomorrow, much less than in eleven years. So what am I putting off today that I shouldn't? Whom should I call to say, "I love you"? What might I say to God today that really needs to be said by me? Why should I put off reading from Scripture, sitting in silence, conscious of God's presence and love? If eternity comes to me before tomorrow, am I ready?
Do I desire my birth into eternal life with Jesus more than my next birthday?
posted by Fr. Mike, O.P. @ 9:09 AM
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Mike, darn you are OLD!!! And so is your brother.
Sue G.
OOps, I'm a bit off on my AARP membership age. I guess I'm only two and a half years away from qualifying, according to my friend Pat A., who wrote me from the Eugene Hotel (an old-folks roost),
"One is eligible for AARP at age 50; also eligible for daily doses of Serutan; also has only an 8-year-wait to live at this hotel; probably too old for the YMCA; possibly eligible for some discounts at various shops and diners...so, mi padre, how old would you be if you could decide how old you are?"
My answer - age is a number, ever-increasing. Maturity is a state, ever-fleeting.
Peter Pan's my role model (except for the tights)
Does that make Sherry Wendy or Tinkerbell??? Oh, wait, here she comes now...
TICK-TOCK TICK-TOCK TICK-TOCK TICK-TOCK TICK-TOCK
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