Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth says life doesn't necessarily get easier as you get older.

A long, faithful walk with God does not spare us from hardship when we're old.

But she's about to tell you why you can trust God all your days.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of A Place of Quiet

Rest for August 29, 2018.

Well, next week, I have a big birthday coming up. It's my 60th birthday. Some of you have heard

about that, and I've received a lot of sweet notes and cards already from people who are celebrating

with me, and I have to say, I'm asking myself, how in the world did this happen? I mean, it seems like

20 was really not that long ago at all,

and yet I have a lot of clues that I'm not 20. I'm just sporting these new glasses, progressives.

I didn't even know what progressive glasses were till really recently, and I'm still,

they've helped my distance problem, but I'm still trying to figure out how to read with them. And when you get close, I can't really see you very well. I figure this is why women this age don't have babies, because if we did, we'd have to hold them out here to see who they were. So lots of changes taking place. And, you know, my goal in life, many of you've heard me say over the

years, was always, from the time I was a little girl, to be a godly old lady. And now, I don't know

when you call yourself an old lady, but I'm a lot closer to whatever that is. And I always had this

very grand, amazing thing of what it meant to be a godly old lady,

and then I realized that time goes fast and one day upon another, and you are there

and you don't know how you got there so fast. But I'm taking some time to just recalibrate

and ask the Lord for perspective and wisdom. There's a lot to be said about aging,

a lot of humorous things you hear about aging.

I read something recently about the perks of being over 60.

Kidnappers are not interested in you.

In a hostage situation, you're likely to be released first.

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