Elder Cool Time

What is Elder Cool Time? You are Elder Cool if you decide it is time to teach others based on the wisdom of your aging process. Elder represents a purpose-evolving life experienced teacher, and cool is accepting the aging process with grace and dignity. Elder Cool is grace under challenge, and you decide it is time to live a quality life despite physical, social, financial, or emotional limitations with a sense of humor. You may never have a classroom, or realize you are a teacher as you go through life, but you teach by what you say or do, whether you choose to or not. Wisdom scripture, such as Ecclesiastes, Psalms, Proverbs, and the Sermon on the Mount, provide guidelines for becoming Elder Cool. You might be Elder Cool if you know when it is time to turn in your driver's license. It might be time to turn in your driver's license if there is no drive- thru at the convenience store, but you made one. It might be time to face and embrace your physical maladies if your head bedpost is propped up on a half dozen concrete blocks to deal with acid reflux. It might be time to talk about the unmentionables: Finances, Funerals, and Flatulence. It might be time to plan your funeral if you get a panic attack when you hear, "What do you want on your Tombstone?" and realize later the family is ordering pizza. It might be time to be sex wise if you have been dreaming every night about living in a nudist colony. It might be time to dress smart if your pants legs are so short you could easily tread in two feet of water and not get them wet. It might be time to have a faith check if you keep pinching the lady usher at worship. Elder Cool News And Views: "A cheerful heart isgood medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones." Proverbs 17:22. (NRSV), "Wisdom is better than war, but one bungler destroys much good. Ecclesiastes 9:18. (NRSV), "The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minute