"You're Never Too Old to Learn"

Last night I was blessed in that my church voted me in as a Deacon.  This is a FIRST for me, at age 64, but I'm pretty happy and excited about it.  There's an ancient saying that "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" but the fact is that GOD can, and He's been preparing me for these new responsibilities for a few years now!!

And, TODAY, as you may know, is the first day of Baseball Season, at least for my New York Yankees.  I don't have the time or money to go to the 1:00 Yankees-Orioles game at Yankee Stadium, but I may get to watch a few innings on TV between my job.  (In fact, I don't even have the time to watch "The Babe," the movie about the great Yankee BABE RUTH that I traditionally watch on Opening Day!!) But above, you'll see "The Babe" and two OTHER of my DVDs that I don't have time to watch today, either...and they are ALSO evidence that "old dogs" like me CAN learn new tricks.

You see, those other two DVDs are about my Yankees' crosstown rivals, the New York METS.  There was a time when I had NO interest in them, but now I'm learning to because    A.) It's the 50th anniversary of their Miracle season    B.) As you may have read in my March 8th and March 23rd blogs, a member of that team, TOM SEAVER, has Dementia now and so I ordered these two DVDs in which he appears and    C.) After all, I'm not just a YANKEE fan....I'm a true BASEBALL fan.

So what's the point of all of this?? Just this. Becoming a Deacon is something God will use to stretch me as well as (I trust) to be a blessing to OTHERS...and I've been stretching MYSELF by finally (among other things) acknowledging that there's ANOTHER team in New York besides MY team.  (By the way, I also ordered a DVD of the Mets-Orioles in the '69 World Series.)  One thing I like about those old sayings is that there's always a CORRESPONDING one to BALANCE them...

For example, "Never put off tomorrow what you can do today" is balanced by "Tomorrow's another day."


And "All things come to he who waits" is balanced by "He who hesitates is lost."


In like manner, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" finds its balancing truth in something that I am finally learning NOW..."You're never too old to learn"!!