Someone said,

"Age is a state of mind." If age is a state of mind, then why

does my back go out?

Someone else

said, "you're as young as you feel." Some days all we feel are

our aches and pains, but, hey, don't dwell on it.

How old are

you? Joel Smith suggests an "age barometer" that helps us tell

how old we are by tabulating how many changes we've lived through. Give

yourself one point for each item you remember:

Blackjack

chewing gum.

Wax, coke-shaped

bottles with colored sugar water.

Candy cigarettes.

Drink machines

that dispensed from the top.

Coffee shops

with tableside jukeboxes.

Home milk

delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.

Party lines.

Newsreels

before the main movie.

P. F. Flyers.

Butch wax.

Telephone

numbers with a word prefix (Olive 2-6933).

Peahooters.

Howdy Doody.

45 RPM records.

S & H

Greenstamps.

Hi-Fi's.

Metal ice

trays with levers.

Mimeograph

paper.

Blue flashbulbs.

Officer Don.

Roller Skate

Keys.

Cork Popguns.

Drive-ins.

Studebakers.

The Atlanta

Crackers.

How many did

you remember? Of 0-5, you're still young. If 6-10, you're getting older.

If 11-15, don't tell your age. If 16-25, you're older than dirt!

Wherever you

fell, you are still young enough to learn and grow and enrich your life.

It's never too late to set goals and to strive toward greater productivity.

In his book, Success, Motivation and the Scriptures, William Cook includes

a series of questions we can ask ourselves as we look to the future. Key

questions include:

Do all of

my goals fit within the written, stated purpose of my life?

Have I been

honest enough to set goals in every area of my life (spiritual, recreational,

professional, social, education, family and financial areas), believing

that God is interested in the total me?

Can my goals

glorify God?

Did I ask

God for wisdom and guidance?

Would Jesus

Christ be willing to be Lord of my life and preside over the reaching

of these goals?

And of course,

at whatever stage we find ourselves, we should "trust in the Lord

with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your

ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths" (Proverbs 3:5,

6).

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