When Did I Get So Old?

When I got out of bed I looked at my feet

When did I get so old?

As I combed my hair, I noticed all the gray

When did I get so old?

While my grandchilden and I were brushing our teeth I stared

When did I get SO WIDE?

I mean old

While I cooked breakfast, I looked at my hands

spotted with age and thin of skin

When did I get so old

I was down on my knees and couldn't get up

When did I get so old?

I don't feel old

Not in my soul

When the me inside looks out of my eyes, everything feels the same.

I am still the same as I was back

when I laid on the ground and looked up at the sky or

when I saw the first flowers of spring and

when I climbed high in a tree and looked down to see my mom jumping frantically around

The question I ask as I talk with my God is

WHEN DID I GET SO OLD?

God just shook his head and he laughed at me.

"Carol," he said with a wink of his eye, "Have only two choices life.

You can get old or die young."

I sighed and said, "As always dear Lord, you are right again."

I'm not old

and I became bold.

It's time to turn things around

So I took a trip with my sis

Up past the bridge

Searched for crayfish on the Au Sable

Where we went searching in vain for a warbler quite rare.

Those warblers where hid in the jack pines of Mich.

So we stopped and had pasties instead.

Then back toTee lake where I learned how to kayak instead!