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We are now in Day 4 of our 10-Day Catch Experience with Scriptures and Journal Prompts, and it’s not too late to jump on board this journey. You can catch up over the weekend and be on track with us by Monday for our second week. Those who do will be glad they did. For example, look at this Journal Prompt from today’s lesson: Reflect on a time when you questioned the truth of a particular teaching or belief. How did you seek answers or clarity? What did you learn from this experience? I can’t wait to tackle that one! So sign up for your free download and get started on “thinking younger” today.
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In the meantime, our list of what it means to think young is getting longer. Today, we are looking at:
You are less judgmental.
You are more forgiving.
You are less judgmental. A judgmental spirit comes from knowing too much, or at least knowing more than you can actually incorporate into your life. If you know more than you can act on, you are either humbled by it, or you pass your own guilt onto someone else. Jesus said that you will be judged by the same judgment you place on others. That’s because you wouldn’t see it in someone else unless you knew it was in you, too. That’s why we judge, to turn the attention off us onto someone else. When you’re younger in your thinking, you’re not that smart. You simply come before the Lord and admit your faults and walk in His grace.
You are more forgiving. This grows out of the former. When you are younger in your thinking, all these spiritual transactions seem to be happening at once in your life. Your realization of sin, your experience of God’s grace and undeserved favor, your forgiveness, and the overwhelming sense of astonishment that all of this could be happening to you is your constant reality. But when you are in an older state, you take too much of this for granted and become too distant from these realities and feelings in your life. You become old, bored and smug because you are not dealing realistically with your life. And the longer you live like that, the more distant you become from your awareness of sin and your need for forgiveness. And then pride sets in and you are almost impervious to God’s enlightenment. “Ah but I was so much older then …” Not where you want to be.
John Fischer The Catch 
I liked this: “Ah but I was so much older then …” Not where you want to be.” Amen
Dear John and Marti –
I also believe that many people believe they are invisible, as they get older. This is a very important topic to tackle. As for me, I do not see that, and I do not believe it. Also, speaking about depression and loneliness is another topic, especially as many older people, have lost their spouse, or loved one. They lose their appetites, which means that they are not taking care of themselves, saying they cannot cook for “one”. The other day, my nurse who is coming in, re my back surgery and checking my incision, etc., called me “elderly”. I nicely told her that if she likes she can call her other clients elderly, however not me, as even tho my body is kind of falling apart, my heart and brain are still 30 years young. Blessings, June F.
We were young and then had to grow old quickly.
So, in our youth we became old… much older then than now.
Time has slowed us down but despite the calendar we can now be young again.
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Thank you Veterans and your families.
Shalom, Peace…
This is insane but I think I did it backwards. When I was younger, in my later teens and young adulthood, I accepted and blindly trusted everything that my parents and American Conservative Evangelicalism taught me. I was puffed up, self-righteous and judgemental. I thought I knew exactly what the Bible said and burned everybody else who didn’t think exactly like I did. It wasn’t until I was around 65 years old that the Holy Spirit did a massive turn-around on me and now, I think, act, pray with much more clarity. I no longer trust my American Conservative Evangelical roots. And even after graduating from seminary, I know much less about God, the Bible, life and death than I did when I was younger. Praise Jesus!!