The Vibrant Channeled Creator

“An old age that is consumed in the dejection of missed opportunities brings despondency to oneself and to others. Instead, old age lived with gentleness, lived with respect for real life, definitively dissolves the misconception of a Church that adapts to the worldly condition, thinking that by so doing it can definitively govern its perfection and fulfillment. When we free ourselves from this presumption, the time of aging that God grants us is already in itself one of those “greater” works Jesus speaks of… Our life is not made to be wrapped up in itself, in an imaginary earthly perfection: it is destined to go beyond, through the passage of death – because death is a passage. Indeed, our stable place, our destination is not here, it is beside the Lord, where he dwells forever.”
Pope Francis
  

1 Samuel 2 1-3
Then Hannah prayed:
My heart rejoices in the Lord!
The Lord has made me strong.Now I have an answer for my enemies;

I rejoice because you rescued me
None is holy like the Lord!There is no one besides you, There is no rock like our God.

Stop acting so proud and haughty!
Don’t speak with such arrogance!

For the Lord is God who knows what you have done.

He will judge your actions.