Gray Hair: Curse or Crown?

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

On Sunday, in Sunday School, we were studying Proverbs. We were encouraged to share some of our favourite proverbs and my gray-haired grammy shared the one above, Proverbs 16:31.

Isn't that a neat verse? In today's day and age, women are condemned if they have gray hair. "Hide it with dye!" commercials scream. For example, when you type, "gray hair" into Google, 1,640,000 entries come up. But did you know that on the first page alone, most of the entries are titled things like, "Gray Hair - Natural Remedy to Reduce or Reverse Gray Hair" and "Can Gray Hair Turn Back to Its Normal Colour?" and "Gray Hair Help - Slow & Prevent Gray Hair with Shampoo & Treatment"? The simple conclusion: this generation is anti-gray hair.

But it is more than gray hair and the proverbs writer knew it.  He is talking about the