Deuteronomy 32:7 ESV — Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.
1 Timothy 5:1 ESV — Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,
John 21:18 (ESV) — Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.”
The Oven Bird
BY ROBERT FROST
There is a singer everyone has heard,
Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,
Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
He says that leaves are old and that for flowers
Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.
He says the early petal-fall is past
When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers
On sunny days a moment overcast;
And comes that other fall we name the fall.
He says the highway dust is over all.
The bird would cease and be as other birds
But that he knows in singing not to sing.
The question that he frames in all but words
Is what to make of a diminished thing.
Covenant Presbyterian Church 