Wonder if Methuselah celebrated his 969th birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Probably not.\u00a0 I\u2019m early on the downslope and already entirely over it.\u00a0 But then again my birthday has always sucked. A sign, prr’aps? Most years Half doesn\u2019t even remember the day \u2026 although if I were to forget Half\u2019s birthday the heavens would fall, water would cease to be wet and the very fabric of reality would tear, such be the volume of shrill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Digress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adam lived to 930. His son Seth to 912. Enoch lived for 365 years then he walked with GOD, never seeing death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Noah was 600 at the time of the Great Flood, and lived another 350 years following. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The lifetimes of the womenfolk (Eve, et al) apparently were not worth noting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Life is the seed, after all, and the womb merely vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Digress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It occurs to methinks that the older we get, the less birthdays matter and the more significant age\/time becomes, guess \u2018cos we\u2019re running out of it, running out the clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Interesting(ly) enough, though, after the sons of GOD begat the nephilim \u2013 giants in the earth in those days — GOD said mankind would only get about 120 years. \u00a0{Genesis 6:3<\/em>}<\/p>\n\n\n\n And truth be told, the only person in the modern era recorded to have lived that long is attributed one of the saddest statements ever: \u201cGod must have forgotten me.\u201d Jeanne Calment was over 122 years old when she finally died of \u2026 well, I mean, old age, but rumor has it she stayed mentally crisp up until the end, although blind and deaf (kinda like Dog \u2026 digress).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rumor also has it that there are certain folks in Eurasia (where?\u00a0 Oh, there) that have lived to 140, but there\u2019s no documentation (surprise surprise) just gossip, claims and whispers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AND and, no one in the Olden First Times is recorded as living beyond 1000 years \u2026 see 2 Peter 3:8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Where am I going with all this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n theKid just had a birthday. Still a big deal, \u2018coz, you know, theKid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyhoo, one of the (what I refer to as) the Hen Party, exclusive little cabal in theKid\u2019s class\/age group, threw a party and did not invite theKid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Boo-OMgosh-hoo.\u00a0 Now, I was irritated \u2026 not angry, never get angry, but irritated.\u00a0 Not at the parents but at the Hen Party, and the general overall nastiness of children … “vipers in diapers” (not mine but so wished it t’were)<\/p>\n\n\n\n HOWEVER<\/p>\n\n\n\n theKid was cool. theKid was nonchalant. theKid said, \u201cGuess I know who a real friend isn\u2019t.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n How much I love theKid. No tears, no dejected face. Just a shrug and a dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGuess I know who a real friend isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Know what\u2019s even better?<\/p>\n\n\n\n theKid just got an invite to another party, and that kid and theKid now look out for each other.\u00a0 For now, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kids are kids, after all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The lesson? Out of the mouths of babes. \u201cAnd a little child shall lead them.\u201d {Isaiah 11:6<\/em>}<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lead on, little one. Lead on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wonder if Methuselah celebrated his 969th birthday. Probably not.\u00a0 I\u2019m early on the downslope and already entirely over it.\u00a0 But then again my birthday has always sucked. A sign, prr’aps? Most years Half doesn\u2019t even remember the day \u2026 although if I were to forget Half\u2019s birthday the heavens would fall, water would cease to … <\/p>\n