This is truly inspirational . She’s been playing the piano for over 100 years and claims that her secret is not to stop.
Oh it gives me goosebumps hearing stories like these.
This is heart warming RaddishRose.
Thank you
A long life can be one of God's greatest gifts. The previous videos reminded me of The long life of Luke Short!
The Conversion of Luke Short
One Sunday in 1645, Rev. John Flavel, of Dartmouth, England, was preaching in an open field. With his earnest and fiery delivery, he spoke of the dreadful curse resting on all who love not the Lord Jesus Christ. The text was, 1 Corinthians 16.22: “If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, then let him be cursed because the Lord is coming.”
Among the listeners on that day was a youth of fifteen, an American immigrant, named Luke Short who heard the solemn words of the preacher, and went away as though he heard them not. Some of noble birth and of high intellectual culture were so deeply affected that they fell senseless upon the ground. But that thoughtless young man only listened and looked on as if he were a disinterested spectator. Soon afterwards he began a roving life upon the seas, and finally settled down for a permanent home, a faithless and a prayerless man in America.
Meanwhile the preacher continued to preach the gospel, which he loved, amid persecutions and many sorrows, and in 1691, when the last joyful summons came, he went home to God in peace.
And eighty-five years passed by from that day of field preaching at Dartmouth, and the boy of fifteen was now a man of a hundred years, and still a wanderer from God. The tender feelings, the ardent hopes and the quick conscience of youth had died in his old and guilty heart long ago.
No ordinary faith could have believed that that seed-corn of divine truth planted by John Flavel's preaching eighty-five years before in the field, on the other side of the sea, still survived, and was destined to spring up and bear fruit unto eternal life.
But so it was. It chanced on a certain day that he found himself alone in an open field on his own farm. There was no weeping multitude around him to awaken his sympathies, and no preacher's solemn voice to tell him of his sin.
Moved, he knew not how, that old man in his hundredth year, passing over all the intervening space of time, felt himself back again in the field at Dartmouth, hearing the fearful words—"If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed." The message of heaven which the thoughtless youth so easily rejected eighty-five years before was mightier when speaking from the remembered past than when heard from the living voice. That day the aged sinner found strength to roll the burden of the threatened curse from his heart, and to find peace through repentance and trusting love.
Luke Short died in 1746, in Middleborough Massachusetts, at the extraordinary age of a hundred and sixteen years, believing and rejoicing at last in the Savior whom for a century he had rejected. And the awakening call of duty, which roused him from the sleep of unbelief, came from the remembered words of one who had rested from his labor for more than half a century. Robert Murray M’Cheyne
~ What is amazing is that a person can hear a sermon when he is a 15 year old teen-ager, then live a sinful Christless life for 85 years and then when he is a centenarian, i.e. a 100 year old person – then remember the sermon and become converted! That is remarkable!
~ This should be an encouragement to sharing our faith with others. Even if they dismiss us, we simply have no idea what will eventually become of them. They may well convert although we may never come to know of it.
I need to get my ears checked, Daphne........I thought he said, "You're still in the pink", when what he really said was, "Can I have a swig of your drink.".......Cheeky sod.......:hatlaugh1:
