Colonel Sanders was sixty-five years old when he opened the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.
When Marie was eighteen years old, a bad case of measles forced her to drop out of Waldorf College. For a long time she was unable to pursue her college education. Many years later she did return to college. In 1992, just ten days before her ninety-ninth birthday, Marie Walker Nodland of Clarion, Iowa, received her Associate of Arts degree from Waldorf College.
Lucy Dettmer was a freshman at a community college in Palm Desert, California, where she was the number two singles player on the tennis team. She didn’t lose a set in singles or doubles in twelve team matches, playing against nineteen and twenty year-old students. I almost forgot to tell you, she was a grandmother and she was seventy-four years old.
James Nelson sat in the grandstands of the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament in New York City, and turning to his wife, Jane, he mused, “I’d like to be a ball boy for the U.S. Open.” She replied, “You are too old.” Upon asking, he discovered that while there was a minimum age of fourteen, there was no maximum age. The next year he became the oldest ball boy in the U.S. Open history.
Noah was six hundred years old when the rain started to fall on the ark. Abraham was one hundred and Sarah was ninety when God blessed them with a child. Moses was eighty when God called him to lead Israel out of Egypt, and died at the early age of one hundred and twenty. Caleb was eighty-five years old when he received his portion of the Promise Land that was inhabited by giants and couldn’t wait to kick them out!
Let me tell you, when Caleb walked through the gates of Heaven every excuse that we have, for not getting involved in building the Kingdom, due to age, went out the window!
That’s my view of things.