Driving home Sunday afternoon, I noticed a couple of elderly ladies out for a stroll -- in their scooters! They sat at the edge of the busy road in their motorized, red scooters, hands firmly grasping the handlebars, as though ready to dash across in a game of electric chicken. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why they wouldn't go a little further to get to a crosswalk or streetlight. These two grey-haired ladies brought a little sunshine to my drive home looking so serious - as though they were in a race for their lives.
The sight of the pair of them sent my imagination spinning. Were they an aged verson of Thelma & Louise? Out on the road, running from all kinds of trouble & making their own? Would I be adventurous & daring when I was their age? I sure hoped so. Even if, in reality, these ladies weren't really all that adventurous, but rather lazy & cranky, the scene they painted that day gave me hopes of an exciting future.
Perhaps, when my husband & I are old and grey, we will embark on scooter adventures all around the world. Perhaps we will travel through so many foreign & exotic places that we'll be able to give tours on scooters, scoot-scootin' our way through museums, see-sites, and streets as a trail of young & old scooter friends followed behind us. Perhaps we will smuggle Bibles into China or some other God-unfriendly country on scooter-back and outrun our opponents in our super speedy wheels.
No matter what we do, I know that old age will be a precious time to share with my beloved husband. By that time, what is unclear & uncertain to us will have occurred and passed, and we will enjoy God's fantastic world in the joy of the seasoned years. But though we may tire & our bones ache and crack, we shall always be vivacious & alive, looking towards the excitement of the unknown!
The sight of the pair of them sent my imagination spinning. Were they an aged verson of Thelma & Louise? Out on the road, running from all kinds of trouble & making their own? Would I be adventurous & daring when I was their age? I sure hoped so. Even if, in reality, these ladies weren't really all that adventurous, but rather lazy & cranky, the scene they painted that day gave me hopes of an exciting future.
Perhaps, when my husband & I are old and grey, we will embark on scooter adventures all around the world. Perhaps we will travel through so many foreign & exotic places that we'll be able to give tours on scooters, scoot-scootin' our way through museums, see-sites, and streets as a trail of young & old scooter friends followed behind us. Perhaps we will smuggle Bibles into China or some other God-unfriendly country on scooter-back and outrun our opponents in our super speedy wheels.
No matter what we do, I know that old age will be a precious time to share with my beloved husband. By that time, what is unclear & uncertain to us will have occurred and passed, and we will enjoy God's fantastic world in the joy of the seasoned years. But though we may tire & our bones ache and crack, we shall always be vivacious & alive, looking towards the excitement of the unknown!
I want a scooter now, that would be my preferred means of transportation if I could afford one.
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