Aging

This is a picture of my grandma and I on Christmas Day of this year. I cropped me out because I don't want to post a picture of me on this. While I like this picture of us, she looks a bit sad and contemplative. I think she mentioned something to the extent that she's sad because she's aging. And she may have mentioned it after this picture was taken. Was she thinking about aging at the time of the snapping of the picture?

Sad...

What does it feel like to be an elderly person? Or a non-elderly person who is conscious of a terminal illness? What is it like to be conscious of the brevity of life? What's the perspective?

God please teach me to number my days.

From the Sara Groves website - the lyrics to "What Do I Know":

"I have a friend who just turned eighty-eight and she just shared with me that she's afraid of dying. I sit here years from her experience and try to bring her comfort. I try to bring her comfort, . But what do I know? What do I know? . She grew up singing about the glory land, and she would testify how Jesus changed her life. It was easy to have faith when she was thirty-four, but now her friends are dying, and death is at her door. . Oh, and what do I know? Really, what do I know? . Chorus: I don't know that there are harps in heaven, Or the process for earning your wings. I don't know of bright lights at the ends of tunnels, Or any of those things. . She lost her husband after sixty years, and as he slipped away she still had things to say. Death can be so inconvenient. You try to live and love. It comes and interrupts. . And what do I know? What do I know? . Chorus . But I know to be absent from this body is to be present with the Lord, and from what I know of him, that must be pretty good. Oh, I know to be absent from this body is to be present with the Lord, and from what I know of him, that must be very good."