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Good Old Age: Letters to Seniors

Rev. Pieter Van Ruitenburg

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This Book is Available Paperback (5x8)9781434385758 $ 8.99  
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About the Book

 

Personal letters for seniors from Rev. Pieter Van Ruitenburg

With ten Photographs by Kristi Klaassen

 

About aging, wrinkles, retirement, moving to another home, mourning, true friends and much more. Beautiful pictures.

 

It is good to be a senior and you need to know how valuable you are. After all, you can give us direction and advice, empathize with us, and listen to our stories. You may have more time than before to pray, think, and read. You might be available for a good talk with a relative or friend. Seriously, we need you in our society, our families and our churches.

 

In this little devotional book we will take a look at your great responsibilities, but will also consider the loneliness and misery you may be experiencing. People with your experience of all the joys and sorrows you may have gone through, however, could be wonderful examples of patience and faith. 
About the Author

Rev. Pieter Van Ruitenburg is a well known author in the Netherlands. He has graduated from the Utrecht State University and the Rotterdam Theological School. He began his career as a college theology teacher in Gouda, and became pastor of two congregations in the Netherlands. In 1996, he immigrated with his family to Canada and is presently a pastor in Chilliwack, BC. 
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Wrinkles

That he might present it to himself a glorious church,

not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing;

but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Ephesians 5:27

 

   

 It is not hard to see that you have grown older. Your skin is discoloured, not so soft anymore, and somewhat more wrinkled.  You have also become greyer or balder. When you compare yourself with how you look in pictures taken years ago, much has changed.  But that is not so bad because it makes no difference to your husband or wife, if you may still have them. You are familiar with each other and have grown old together.  Although you have become older, you have not become any less of a person.

          Actually, we can be beautiful in a different way; not with fair skin, not with strong muscles, but with a beauty for God!  Not beautiful with so-called good works, or with perfect hearts; but rather with broken hearts. That is what God receives satisfaction from. When we, through God’s grace, are robed with the obedience of Christ, we are precious people to Him.  We may be old and infirm, but when God has given a new heart and we are washed in Christ’s blood, we are beautiful to God. The Lord sees no sins in His bride. She has no spot or wrinkle before Him, but is His loving, elected congregation.

          Is that not more important than looking beautiful to people?  Your great-grandchildren might find it a bit frightening to give you a kiss, but if we may have experienced the love of Christ, we have infinitely more. We can, however, be young and strong, but ugly to God. We can also be very old, but beloved in heaven. That is why it is important to have a new heart, and in true faith to take refuge under the wings of Christ. Only in Him can we be without wrinkles. If we may know new life, we shall soon be presented to the Father as a bride without spot or wrinkle. God grant that we may look away from ourselves and admire the King. His beauty goes far above human beauty.

 

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