While I was staying in Cambridge, England during the summer of 2004, I visited the famous pub, The Eagle.

This pub was one of the final stops for many RAF airmen before going on their dangerous missions during WWII.  So they wrote their names on the ceiling which is still covered with the messages and scribblings of the heroes who guarded England so well.

The pub owners told us it was getting less and less common for “old men to come back looking for their names.”

Names which were written over 60 years ago. 

I’ve often thought about that as I’ve watched my own parents age over the last three years.

The vibrancy, the youth, the determination that put the 1000 year reign of the Third Reich to a fast end is now limping through old age.

Wise Solomon summed it up best in Ecclesiastes 12:6

“Remember Him-before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken;
Before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
Or the wheel broken at the well.”

But ironically, The Eagle was also famous for being the place where DNA discoverers  James Watson and Francis Crick made their famous announcement, “We have discovered the secret to life.”

Had they?

Sure, medical science has come a long way since that afternoon in 1953, and DNA knowledge has certainly put us into the 21st century and beyond- but is it the real secret to living, especially for those facing aging?

Let’s not forget the spiritual and the emotional needs of our seniors; especially as winter sets in. 

Those long gray days can be cheered with phone calls and comfort visits.

Often times it’s the small things we do for them which are the most meaningful. 

After all, we’re all really in this together.  

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