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Diner--"Waiter, how was this steak cooked?"
Waiter--"Smothered in onions sir."
"Well, it died hard."



Woodrow Wilson once said, "Fear God and you need not be afraid of anyone else." St. Paul feared God more than man. That is why he suffered matyrdom. Joan of Arc feared disobedience to God more than to man, and that is why she was unmoved when flames began to surround her. In your last years cling to the Captain of your life and you will have no harmful fears.
Fear and worry go hand in hand and the remedy for one is the same as the remedy for the other. These two probably cause more deaths than any disease that you could have. As with fear, it is important that you worry for your protection and advancement, but you must know how to distinguish when it is for your good or when it will do you harm.
Dr. Alex Carrell aptly said, “Men who don’t know how to overcome fear and worry die young.”
Not only do you worry over things that never happen, you worry also about things that have already happened. Many people worry about growing old. Obviously, this one of the quickest ways to hasten the aging process A child once asked his grandfather, “Isn’t it awful to be old”? The old man replied, “No, if I were not old, I would be dead.”
As you have heard many time, age is evaluated not in terms of the passage of years but of interests. Many people in their eighties are so intellectually and spiritually alive that the passage of years is of small significance.

Grow old along with me,
The best is yet to be.
The last of life, for which the
First was made.
Our times are in His hand…
------------------------Robert Browning.
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