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Henry Durbanville wrote a book several years ago called The Best Is Yet to Be. In it, he argued that growing older isn’t something that should be dreaded, but rather embraced – that our senior years can be the best of our lives.

No treachery is worse than betrayal by a family member or friend. Julius Caesar knew such treachery. Among the conspirators who assassinated the Roman leader on March 15, 44 BC, was Marcus Junius Brutus. Caesar not only trusted Brutus, but he favored him as a son.

A small church congregation in rural Ohio met one Sunday evening to share prayer requests and praises with one another. Toward the end of their time together, a woman in her early ‘30s stood up and nervously walked forward.

Are you strong enough to face how mistaken many of your most cherished beliefs are? Well, here are a few things you may not have known:

The American painter John Sargent once painted a panel of roses that was highly praised by critics.

Old Eb was, like many of his breed, rather stingy with words. He said very little, and even when he spoke, it was rather grudgingly.

H. A. Ironside was once speaking with an elderly man who told him that he wanted to be sure of his salvation in Jesus Christ.

A pastor once recounted how, as a child, his mother sent him to pick a quart of raspberries. Reluctantly he dragged himself to the berry patch.

Many years ago, a senior executive of the then Standard Oil Company made a wrong decision that cost the company more than $2 million.

In the book Live and Learn and Pass It On, H. Jackson Brown, Jr., recounted some of the life lessons people of different ages said they’d learned.