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Page 6B, The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, November 13,2019 Old Is Not for Sissies From The Bible By Jerry Kingery Getting Special to the Ledger Dr. James L Snyder I will not admit to being old, but I am older than I was 10 years ago. Those 10 years have been filled with all kinds of things helping me to get older. I saw an article that said that 60 is the new 40.1 have no idea what that means, but I think out in our culture there is an obses sion about age. People cannot ac cept getting older. This year was the 50th anniversary of my high school graduation. Un fortunately, I did not get to go, but I did see many of the pictures from that celebration. Looking at those pictures, I did not know how old my high school friends really were. It probably was a good thing that I did not go for a variety of reasons. The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and I were sitting around enjoying an evening cup of coffee. Nothing like a good hot cup of coffee to settle the nerves. It’s not that I have nerves, but it’s just an excuse to drink coffee. I think of what my old uncle Ed used to say, “I never had a bad cup of coffee, but I do confess I have had a cup that was better than others.” That seems to be my senti ment as well. The older I get, the more I enjoy my cof fee. One year I tried to switch from coffee to hot tea. Sorta like the Britons do. Let me say I did not last the whole year with drinking hot tea. No wonder Britains speak with an accent. I decided to go back to coffee and I am unan imous in that deci sion. Getting back to my wife and me drink ing coffee together, the con versation shifted in the direction of how old we actually are. “Boy, we’ve come a long way, haven’t we?” I think my wife is right in that observation. We spent a few mo ments reminiscing about what people call the “good old days.” I must say we had quite a few of them. Of course, my wife remembers more of them and the details about them then I do. But that’s okay. Sharing a memory is one of the great blessings of life. It is often said by certain people that we remember things in the past better than we do things that have happened today. I go along with that. I cannot remember what I had for breakfast today, but I do remember what I was doing 50 years ago. Fifty years ago, I began my Bible college days. Then, a year later I met what became the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage. Those mem ories are forever etched in my mind. What is strange about this is that I can remem ber more details each year than I did the year before. Oh, isn’t memo ry a wonderful thing. The thing that trou bles me is that my wife remembers a memory different than I remem ber that same memory. She begins a conver sation by saying, “Do you remember...” Then she’ll go off when some memory deep in the past. Some of the details of that memory seem to be familiar, but I go along with her. It is wonderful to have memories and every body has memories. The thing is, some people have good memories and some people up bad memories. Some people choose to focus on their bad memories and oth ers choose to focus on their good memories. The other day I forgot something I was trying to remember. For the life of me, I could not remember it. Why is it that you cannot remem ber soOme things that are happening right now? Then it hit me. My memory is like a com puter disk, which has a certain amount of memory on it. Once you use all the memory, you cannot put any more memories on it. You must get a new disc. I wonder if that is what’s going on with my memory? Maybe I have used up most of my memory space. I shared this with my wife and she looked at me and said, “I think you have something there.” My memory is not quite that bad, but I can never remember her saying anything along that line especially to me. I just went along with her. “Maybe,” my wife said rather thoughtfully, “we should delete memories in the past that we no longer need. That will make room for new memories.” Only my wife could come up with something like that. But as she talked on, it sounded like a good thing to do. I looked at her and said, “Can you tell me where the delete button is on our memory?” “Silly boy,” she said, “do I have to think of everything?” Whatever the solution, I think it is important to make room for new memories. Enjoy the ones in the past, but do not let the past hinder the present. Thinking on these things it occurred to me that getting old is not for sissies. It takes a real man and a real woman to blossom into old age. If you are not careful, getting old can wear you out both physically and mentally. Thinking about this I See Snyder, page 7B Sampson’s death And she said, The Phi listines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him. But the Phi listines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. Then the lords of the Philis tines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us. And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars. And Sam son said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them. Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport. And Sam son called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. And Samson said, Let me die with the Philis tines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the peo ple that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life. Then his brethren and all the house of his fa ther came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the See Bible, page 7B James L. Snyder Attend The House of Worship of Your Choice This Sunday Lee County Church Of Christ Eddie Garcia, Minister Bible Study 9:30 AM Worship..10:30 AM & 6:00 PM Smithville Baptist Lance Fendley, Pastor Sunday School... 10:00 AM Worship...11 AM & 7 PM Philema Road Baptist Sunday School 9:45 AM Morning Worship 11:00 AM Evening Worship ..6:00 PM Alpha Baptist Les Reed, Pastor Sunday School 9:45 AM Morning Worship 11:00 AM 1st Sunday of the Month Evening Worship ..6:00 PM Antioch Baptist Church Rev. Lem Wright 1st and 3rd Sunday Sunday School 9:00 AM 4th Sunday Worship Service. 10:00 AM Friendship Baptist Church of Lee County Mark Spraggins, Pastor Sunday School 9:45 AM Morning Service.. 11:00 AM Phillip Grove Baptist Pastor Jenkins Sunday School... 10:00 AM 1 st & 3rd Sunday 11:00 AM Mt. Pleasant Baptist Pastor E B Washington Sunday School 8:00 AM Worship Service ...,9:15AM Albany Bible Church Pastor Pete Daughtry, Sun. Bible Class...9:30 & 11:00 Christ’s Sanctified Holy Church Rev. Gary Collier Sunday School... 10:00 AM Worship Service.. 11:00AM Life Church Pastor Matthew Schluckebier Sr. Adult SS 9:30AM Sunday Service....10:45AM Westview Baptist Church Rev. Grady Morey Sunday School....9:45 AM Worship Service...11:00 AM Evening Worship...5:00 PM Kinchafoonee Baptist Rev. Melvin Slappy Sunday School 9:45 AM Morning Worship 11:00 AM Evening Worship ..7:00 PM Smithville United Methodist Rev. Duane Whittaker Worship 9:30 AM Sunday School ...10:45 AM Palmyra Baptist J. D. Bolden Sunday School ...10:00 AM Morning Worship 12:00 PM Bible Study (1st Sun) .5:00 PM Eve. Wor. (1st Sun)7:00 PM McAfee Grove Missionary Baptist Minister Robert Lewis Morgan First & Third Sundays Sunday School ...10:00 AM Worship 11:00 AM Second & Fourth Sundays Sunday School 8:00 AM Worship 9:00 AM Macadonia Baptist Church Sunday School ...10:30 AM First Sunday Morning Worship 11:45 AM Third Sunday Evening Worship .6:00 PM Jordan Grove Baptist Rev. Rod Hubbard Sunday School 9:45 AM Worship Service . 11:00 AM The Pointe Carl Barnhardt Sunday Worship...9:00 am Children’s Ministry (Infants - 3 yr old) Sunday Worship...10:30 am Children’s Ministry (Infants - 5th grade) Leesburg Church Of Christ Bro. Howard Bouldin Sunday School 9:30 AM Morning Worship 10:45 PM Evening Worship .5:00 PM Greater Zion Hope Apostle Henry L Hosley Every 1st, 4th, 5th Sunday Sunday School...8:00 a.m. Sunday Worship..9:00 a.m. Albany Community Seventh-day Adventist Church Pastor Steve Rose Saturdays Bible Study 9:30 AM Worship 10:40 AM Unity Church of Christianity Rev. Joanna Gabriel Morning Worship ...,11:00 AM New Hope AME Rev. E.X. King Every 1st and third Sunday Sunday School 10:00 AM Sunday Worship 11:00 AM House Of God Saints In Christ Elder A.F. 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