Tehillim is a book in the Torah. We Christians call the book Psalms. Psalm 71:9 is about feeling vulnerable in old age. "Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone."
I am approaching 80. Since I recently traveled across country, to go to a wedding, I often felt age related vulnerability. I found the parking garage, the shuttles, the airports, overwhelming.
However, I don't feel cast off. The opposite, people defer to me. I find it embarrassing. I think, "Do I look the decrepit?" But I know it's kindness. Too bad King David didn't feel that way. He worried about his age-related weaknesses.
One thing King David and I have in common, though. We have always love and trusted God's grace and know that God won't abandon us.
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