Keep Climbing
I love how Miss Katherine faces her age of 99 years with humor. On a morning walk with Ray recently, I thought of her when I saw this morning glory climbing a tall grass stem.
Friends and family threw a surprise party for her when she turned 92. Spry Miss Katherine walked into the party completely surprised. Without missing a beat, she started shooting one-liners:
“I told the doctor I’m still climbing, but they’ve greased the pole.”
“I don’t have to pay for this, do I?”
To prove her vigor to all of us, she bent over and touched her toes.
And when the program of praise for Miss Katherine began, she said: “If y’all don’t quit, I’m going to have a big head!”
My encouragement for you today is to do what Miss Katherine has been doing for 99 years: keep climbing even if they’ve greased the pole.
Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect,
but I press on so that I may lay hold
of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet;
but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind
and reaching forward to what lies ahead,
I press on toward the goal
for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:12-14