Reading: Luke 2:36-51

I’m a few weeks from Birthday Number Forty-Eight.

Seven years later is the Senior Citizen Hurdle.

And ten years after that comes the Social Security Retirement Threshhold.

Anna was way past all those.

“And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day” (37).

Though of great age, she hadn’t retired from serving God.

For some reason, that really challenges and encourages me this morning. (My prime and all the open doors of my Early Thirties are quite a ways behind me.)

Whatever my age, I can still serve God with fastings and prayers, night and day.

But I don’t.

Why not?!

from Luke 2:49

A little bit more from Luke 2: “He Is Here!”