Bingo!

I got to play Bingo tonight with some friends from church and some retired folk at Esperanza Senior Living and I have to say it was a great time.

There is something about being in my 70's, 80's, or perhaps even 90's that I can't wait to experience. As I got to talk to some of them I realized that they have been through a lot of stuff. A man named Frank served in World War 2, lived in Australia, taught at Cornell, and was also a professor of Mechanical Engineering for 40 years at Texas A&M! Now that is amazing.

I just can't wait to be that age, hopefully I will be sitting on a porch somewhere widdling a piece of wood in a rocking chair.

On my way home though I had another thought come in to my head.

How does a person that is placed in a retirement home worship God with a body of believers? I mean they aren't able to drive and some are bed ridden. How are they worshiping and living for God? I mean there is no such thing as the lone ranger Christian, so what is going on? Are there hundreds, maybe thousands, of retired people who confessed Christ all there life and are now suffering spiritually because they can no longer be with a body of believers that can spur them on and encourage them? I am so thankful for the people around me that encourage me. So perhaps it is on us as believers not to forget these people, but yet take time to go spend time with them and talk about Christ with them.

I want to ask them what it looks like living for Christ at the age of 93, because I can't wait to do it.