Lost Years Recovery
Theme for this Week: Growing Old Is an Oxymoron
Win Arn
Monday, February 18, 2002
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Lost Years Recovery
Theme for this Week: Growing Old Is an Oxymoron
Monday, February 18
Key Bible Verse: Even in old age they will still produce fruit; they will remain vital and green (Psalm 92:14). Bonus Reading:Psalm 91:14–16
During World War II, Lou Zamperini spent 47 days adrift on a life raft on the Pacific, followed by two and a half years in a Japanese prison camp. These experiences took a devastating toll on his health. He reckoned they took ten years off his life. Lou began making healthy choices in nutrition and physical fitness "to get those ten years back."
"I started by going to a gym every day to pedal a stationary bicycle," he remembers. But, "After five minutes I'd look at my watch and feel like I'd been there for two hours. Then I started to take my bike out on the street, and I could ride for hours and feel like it was five minutes." Now Lou engages in fitness activities he really enjoys—running, hiking, mountain climbing, skiing, and skateboarding.
Lou manages a senior citizen center, and says, "At work, I'm up and down the stairs all day long." Not only does he have more energy on the ski slopes than most college kids, he's continually improving. "At 74 I'm doing things in skiing I couldn't do when I was 64," Lou says. "Oh, I've got my aches and pains, but that doesn't bother me. Not when I'm having fun!"
—Win Arn in Live Long and Love It
My Response: Here's what I'm doing to "honor God with [my] body" (1 Cor. 6:20):
Thought to Apply: You are as young as you feel after trying to prove it.
—Lou Erickson (writer)
Adapted from: Live Long and Love It (Tyndale, 1991).
Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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January/February 2002,Vol. 5,No. 1
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