I recently read about things that happen to us as we age no matter how hard we work and no matter how much we wish and pray that they would not happen to us.
1.Your body is changing and it will never be the body you had as a youth again. The secret is to cooperate with the body that you have and not feel betrayed by the body that you used to have.
2. You circle of life is growing smaller by the day. Life naturally narrows with age. People move away. People disappear. People die. If you live long enough you will outlive all of your family and old friends.
3. Your prince is not coming to save you or sweep you off of your feet. You yourself are responsible for your own emotional wellbeing.
4. Relevance changes with time. The reason you feel invisible or ignored is because technology has moved past you. You are not as influential or important as you once were. And you no longer need to compete.
5. Regret can suffocate you if you let it. You did the best that you could with the tools you had and the rules you lived by. To survive you need to make peace with your past.
6. Time becomes more and more precious. We do not have time to waste on drama or on conflict or on vision. Wisdom teaches us what is really important to invest the time that we have left on.
There is one more thought to add to this list. I call it the "But God" card. Life diminishes as we age. But God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He has promised to never leave us or forsake us.
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