Are You Older Than God?

Are You Older Than God? June 9, 2007

When we had our first child – a friend of mine had a good laugh when he observed me thoroughly washing off the pacifier that had fallen from my daughter’s mouth. He, a father of four older children, said: “You know, when you have your first child … they drop their pacie and you boil it before giving it back to them.

The second child … you just rinse it off.

The third child drops the pacifier on the floor and you stick it in your own mouth to clean it before giving it back to them.

My age is the right age, and it increases annually.

Then there’s the so-called Spirit of the Age.

If you’re like me, you’re often tempted to wish you’d been born in another age — one with a little less of this, a bit more of that — leaning toward Virtue, goodness, Andy & Barney; fleeing today’s fickle flash, flesh and flunkies.

But, really: Age plays tricks on you.

Take, for instance …

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