Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity. (I Timothy 5:1,2)
Dear Father,
These children will find themselves frustrated with older people. Older people think slower and less clearly, they are set in their ways and many times do not appreciate the latest developments. Consequently, our American society places little value on them. With our busy schedules we seem to have no time to spend with them and do not feel the importance to make time. But you tell us to treat older people well and you tell us that there is a wisdom that they hold from many years of living.
I pray these children go against the grain of our society and place great value and worth in older people, that they will make time to spend with them and invest in them. May they treat older people with dignity and respect and may they honor them for the lives of faith they have lived. May they treat them gently when they disagree with their views, listening to their views to glean wisdom even if they do not agree with them, and without arguing with them. May they experience great blessing from having walked beside them.
Amen
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