Aging Gracefully or Grossfully

Aging Gracefully or Grossfully
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 by Debora M. Coty

Categories: MUSINGS / SPIRITUALITY

PLEASE WELCOME

DEBORA M. COTY

HAVING THE PRIME OF MY LIFE

I keep seeing the phrase, “aging gracefully,” in senior publications. But isn’t the naked truth that we’re more likely aging grossfully, regardless of how earnestly we attempt to glide into our later years?

Let’s face it, my sweetly ripened friends,

we just aren’t as graceful as we used to be.

Example #1: I was recently thrilled to attend my 51st high school reunion luncheon in my hometown. I bought a new outfit to make a good impression and might have even pranced a little (not easy with two new metallic knees). But when I stepped through the door of the restaurant, I was totally hornswoggled when I glanced down and discovered I was wearing two completely different shoes.

No. No. NOOOOO!!

That’s what old people do, not those of us to whom hope springs eternal and age is just an annoying number!

Evidently everybody there had equally failing vision. Nobody even noticed my mismatched faux pas. I could’ve worn diving flippers, and no one would’ve been the wiser.

Example #2: The other night, Spouse approached me with a glass half-filled with water and a weird look on his face. After nearly 50 years of marriage, I thought nothing could surprise me. I was wrong. Yep, this puts the “gross” in grossfully.

“Check this out,” he said, holding out the glass. “I keep this on my bedside table to take my nighttime pill. What do you see?”

I stared down into the glass and was startled to see a dozen or so tiny black dots floating in the bottom. One moved. Then another. Soon the dang dots were all wiggling around, swimming crazily like the larvae they were.

“What in the world?” I jumped sharply, nearly knocking the glass out of his hand.

But then I knew. I knew why mosquitoes had been dive-bombing me in bed at night and buzzing my ears all day. I knew why no matter how many whining mosquitoes I swatted in my closet, three more took their place.

Spouse’s water glass had become an incubator for our own herd of prize-winning mosquitoes. Without considering scientific consequences, he’d left the glass there for weeks uncovered and never drained the glass when he took his pill, only gulped down a swallow off the top, leaving undisturbed whatever was in the bottom (which he couldn’t see without his glasses but had removed for bed). Then he simply refilled the glass.

I wondered how many mosquitoes in various stages of development he’d inadvertently digested. Ewww.

It was the perfect storm. A perfectly gross storm.

So, there you have it. Many of us may indeed age more grossfully than gracefully, but the good news is that we have a wonderful promise from our loving Rock of all Ages to cling to:

“I will still be the same when you are old and gray, and I will take care of you” (Isaiah 46:4 CEV).

ABOUT DEBORA M. COTY

Debora Coty is an inspirational speaker, certified writing coach, and award-winning author of more than 50 books, including the bestselling Too Blessed to be Stressed series, and her newest release, Bless Your Heart: Daily Devotions to Warm Your Heart & Feed Your Soul, named 2026 Selah Book of the Year and a Christian Market Book Award finalist. Debora lives, loves, and laughs in central Florida with her longsuffering husband, two grown children, five precocious grandbuddies, and Laz the Resurrection Dog. Join Deb’s fun-loving community of BFFs (Blessed Friends Forever) who adore Jesus at DeboraCoty.com.

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