“They will still bear fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and very green….” (Psalm 92:14).
This is an updated version of a similar article written on my 78th birthday. March 28 will be my 81st birthday. I’m so thankful to still be young and energetic and both loved and in love. So, here are 21 things that are keeping me young!
One. I laugh a lot. I love Genesis 21:6, “God has made laughter for me.” Laughter is a vote of confidence in the Lord, that He is in control and has it all in His hands. This means some of what you’ll hear around this house is pure silliness. And I’m good with that. Many years ago, as six-year-old Abby and I played at the swing in her front yard, she said, “We’re being silly, aren’t we, Grandpa?” I said, “Yes, we are. Why do we like to be so silly?” She said, “It’s a family tradition.” (Abby marries Cody Erskine in two months. I may tell that story. Cody needs to know what he’s getting into!)
Two. I take a full regimen of vitamins. In the mid-1990s, when I’d gone a decade without seeing a doctor, I accompanied my wife for her appointment and ended up becoming a patient too. One day the doctor gave me a list of vitamins and minerals she wanted me to start taking. As I left, she said, “Mr. McKeever, I think we have just prevented a heart attack in you.” Well, apparently so. I have rarely missed a day taking them, although the precise list of what I take has varied a little over the years as successive doctors have tweaked it.