The Spirit and old age

Old age is the balance sheet of how we have lived, loved ,resolved and evolved. When the body is frail and sick, kith and kin far away,the environment unfit and unsafe; it is our spirit that keeps us " whole".

Spirit is that part of us which is God, and its nature is pure, pristine, emanant, and self sustaining.It does need nourishment from a job , status, money, or those hundreds of things we hanker for all our life---- and because it does not ask for anything, has no wants , it lies often undiscovered and ignored within us. Often under a heap of hurts and grudges that we accumulate through life.

In old age when the body is weak and cannot stand on its own,the props of material life have gone away , and number of friends and relatives decresae every year ,then it is the spirit that holds us.

And thus :

I pray for myself and on behalf of all humanity : "God ! guide me to take all those steps today , that keeps my spirit pure and strong , so that in my old age it is fully revealed and holds me in splendour."

amen