"Where Have All the Grandmas Gone?" by Walter S. Keys

   In the dim and distant past,
When life's tempo wasn't fast,
Grandma used to rock and knit,
   Crochet, tat and babysit.

When the kids were in a jam,
   They could always call
      on "Gram."

   In the days of gracious living,
Grandma was the gal for giving.

But today she's in the gym,
   Exercising to keep slim.

She's off touring with the bunch,
   Or taking clients out to lunch.

   Going north to ski or curl,
   All her days are in a whirl.

   Nothing seems to stop
      or block her,
   Now that Grandma's off
      her rocker.

--from "Good Old Days" magazine, March 2007 issue

Honour widows that are widows indeed. But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless. But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man. Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
1 Tim. 5:3-10

But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Titus 2:1-5