WISING
UP WITH AGE

Topics: Aging; Fruitfulness; Perseverance; Service; Work

References: Job 12:12; Proverbs 3:13–16

Some of the greatest accomplishments in history were carried out by people late in life.

•     Immanuel Kant wrote one of his best philosophical works at the age of seventy-four.

•     Verdi wrote “Ave Maria” at eighty-five.

•     Michelangelo was eighty-seven when he completed The Pietá, his greatest sculpture.

•     Ronald Reagan was president of the United States at seventy-five.

This notion that life should be winding down at fifty or sixty years of age is just crazy.

—James Dobson, Coming Home (Tyndale, 1998)