Three perspectives on gratitude when growing older

While clearing out a pile of stuff, I found these three observations I’d typed on a sheet of paper don’t know when –

Lord grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference

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The elderly gentleman said, ‘I have had bypass surgery, am largely deaf, and have both prostate issues and old age diabetes, and take about 40 different medicines that give me dizzy spells, but thank God, I still have my driver’s licence.

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‘Who then is God, that we must speak of Him? God is he whom we must thank. To be more precise: God is he whom we cannot thank enough. (Eberhard Jungel)