5-Minute Trekker's JournalSample

THE OLD MAN AT THE WINDOW

THOUSANDS OF YEARS have passed since Solomon wrote this description of old age, but there is nothing old about it. It is immediate and contemporary, and we can see and feel the dusty street "where the grasshopper drags himself along." Even if we are young, we can imagine, through this verse, what old age feels like.

The poet transports us back to an old man, and there we are, sitting in the shaded room by that same window, unable to hear the sounds of children playing in the street or the organ grinder's music. It is not hard to imagine that the old man was once like one of the little children playing in the street outside of the window. One day at some point in the future, the child playing outside the window will one day become the old man who looks out at the world where "songs grow faint."

Journal your thoughts and feelings on today's readings.

Spend time in prayer about what you wrote down.