Read My Favorite Senior Moments Online
Authors: Karen O'Connor
My Favorite Senior Moments
HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
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MY FAVORITE SENIOR MOMENTS
Copyright © 2015 by Karen O'Connor
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
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ISBN 978-0-7369-5960-5 (pbk.)
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
O'Connor, Karen, 1938-
My favorite senior moments / Karen O'Connor.
pages cm
1. Older ChristiansâReligious life. 2. AgingâReligious aspectsâChristianity. I. Title.
BV4580.O375 2015
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To my hiking pals.
My thanks to these men and women who contributed suggestions, ideas, and their own experiences as “story seeds” that I used, with their permission, to write this book.
Phyllis Allen ⢠Pat Baer ⢠Diane Barker ⢠Mary Battmer ⢠Kris Flynn ⢠Bill Giovannetti ⢠Lisa Hamil ⢠Judi Hill ⢠Ginger Ramin Hixson ⢠Cathy Hopper ⢠Jade Kinnaman ⢠Charlie Levine ⢠Carol Nicolet Loewen ⢠Margaret Mayhew ⢠June O'Connor ⢠Mary Panhorst ⢠Donna Poole ⢠Linda Evans Shepherd ⢠Peggy Smith ⢠Janet Thompson ⢠Sherry VanZante ⢠Sandra Victor ⢠Peggy Sue Wells ⢠Bess Whitaker ⢠Dawn Wilson ⢠Connie Bertelsen Young
Contents
37. It's Not What It Looks Like
63. Give Credit When Credit Is Due
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Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy.
P
SALM
126:2
Do you, like
me, sometimes look in the mirror and wonder whose face that is? You no longer see the handsome dude of 50 years ago or the glamorous gal with long red hair who was voted homecoming queen in high school.
Ack!
The years have gone by quickly, and suddenly we're facing the second half of life⦠or maybe the last quarter. It can be a discouraging prospect if we let it be. But it can also be one of the best seasons of our lives if we choose to make it so.
One thing always cheers me upâknowing I'm not alone. Other people are looking in the mirror too and deciding how they will live these final chapters of their lives. Will we choose love and laughter or fear and worry? I choose love and laughter! In that vein, I've compiled some of my favorite senior moments from my life and from the lives of others to help you choose the funny side of the street too.
I hope these stories and prayers encourage you to look at life from the positive, sunny side of the street so you can continue to live wholeheartedlyâespecially knowing that God is with you⦠and always will be.
Karen O'Connor
Watsonville, California
Louann's granddaughter Chloe
was quick to tell her grandmother she had the figure of a teenagerâbut then she added these dreaded words: “Well, I mean, except for your face.”
That did it. Louann ran to the bathroom as soon as Chloe left for home. The sweet girl didn't mean to hurt her feelings. She was just speaking the truth. But still, it did hurt to hear it put so bluntly. Louann knew she looked olderâbut really old? “I'm not ready for that,” she murmured to her reflection. “Lord, whose face is that in the mirror? It can't be mine. Why, it seems just yesterday that I looked like her.” Louann pointed to a photo on the wall of her sister Amy and herself taken when they were in high school.
Louann moved to the living room and surveyed her wedding photo and then one of her first child, Robert, and her on his fifth birthday.
“I was a pretty good-looking chick in those days. What happened?”