We can live in the past and be reluctant to face the future, or look to the future and live with faith and hope. The question for us is whether we ever think that even if we grow old, it will be a time of joy for us? When our children are independent, and when we have passed every time of our lives, let us remember the promise of God: "In old age they still bear fruit, become fat and fresh, to proclaim that God is true.