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Aging and Physical Challenges

you and give you peace

.. ."

God bless.

For you we are praying,

Fact is, dear reader, we will all die someday

because our earthly parents were mortal

humans. But praise God, we can all live

forevermore because our Father in Heaven is

Eternal.

Finally, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in a

speech on his 91st birthday, March 8, 1932,

had a wonderful grasp of transition:

The riders in

a

race do not stop short

when they reach the goal. There is

a

little

finishing canter before coming to

a

standstill. There is time to hear the kind

voices of friends and to say to one's self,

'The work is done'."

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