Forever Young

Enjoy this beautiful video. It is told in secular terms but its message is of youthful joy, and the endurance of love.

As it opens, it is clear we are in the autumn of life. A song plays in the background called “The Last Song.” Our focus shifts to an elderly woman who, looking out on the world from her window, casts a whimsical look at the autumn scene. She shuts her window (for the last time).

She is clearly living more now on memories more than the present. A picture of her family from long ago hangs over the mantle and she grabs a photo of her dead husband, looking as he did when she first met and fell in love with him. Yes, her last thoughts are of love.

She sits in her chair and dozes off. Suddenly the radio goes dead, but it is really she who has died. Her final and fading memories, as she clutches the memory of her love are those of her youth, when she was strong and could dance to life’s rhythms.

And then it happens. God gives her the joy of her youth. She awakens, forever young.

One day, if we die thinking of Love and longing for Him, Our Lord will sing us to sleep and awaken us, forever young.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Z30ZP0AoAdU

And here is a meditation on this beautiful video:  http://blog.adw.org/2013/04/to-god-who-gives-me-the-joy-of-my-youth-a-meditation-on-a-beautiful-video/