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Age 1 - Part of our Life ...

Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Can you imagine a life without aging? Both youth and age is an integral part of our life. We live with age, in a way that we do not know how life without age would be.

Life is not unlimited

As humans, we also fear age. Age reminds us that our life is not unlimited. Life has an end. We are all going to die at some point in the near or distant future. Age and death is somehow interlinked. Our body is not designed for eternity. It works for some years. In fact, it grows in these years and matures. It changes all the time. It ages. Then, at some point, it dies.

Our relation to age is ambiguous. We like age, in the sense that we like experience and knowledge and ability. All this usually comes with age. We need to learn and when we learn and train and gain experiences, our ability grows. But at the same time age means less strength. It means less options, less possibilities. Age means that the remaining time and the remaining options decrease. Age is perceived as threat.

Designed by God …

We have to realize, that age is something, which was designed by God. He chose to create life like that, not initially, but as a reaction to human choices.

The biblical story around aging and death is quite fascinating. It was God's solution to full freedom, to good and bad, to the fact that mankind was separated from God. I assume that you know the story about Adam and Eve eating from the forbidden fruit. The fruit was forbidden, since it meant to know good and bad, to leave the area which God had created for them. It is a story about curiosity, but also about mistrust. And it is a story about going into an unknown land. A story about unforeseen consequences, about crime and death. As a part of his reaction to the choices of Adam and Eve God put a limit to our activities. Death entered the stage of life.

Over the next days we want to think further about aging and how we live in it … ... more texts

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