“Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old. Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.”
If you have been at the same church for a long time, someone there may still know you best as the person you were at sixteen. Perhaps you were the keen one who never missed a youth meeting, and now Sunday mornings take most of what you have. When an older member squeezes your arm and says you were always the one they could count on, it comes with real affection, and it's natural to smile and agree.