My Friends and I were sitting around the table and chatting about getting older, being placed in a seniors home. What would that be like?
We talked about how some people handle the changes well, and others do not.
How some people are at peace with getting older and go with the flow. We want to be like that, age gracefully, age without being bitter, or unhappy. Why do some people react so differently?
My Mom was bitter and angry, her sister was just the opposite.
Sometimes at 52 I feel, tired, bitter, and angry. What else is there... do I work until I drop?
It is too late for a lot of my dreams... being a journalist... a writer, a preacher, a public speaker... being a Rock 'n Roll singer, (Linda Ronstadt was my hero, anyway the tights would not look so great now)...
So here I am working at a printing company... that was not my dream. Not that I do not like my job... I actually love it... but was it my dream? Not so much!
I am mourning a few of those lost dreams... which I think is OK.
Sometimes I wonder what my passion was or is?
What does God want me to do?
What is my purpose here?
What does God want me to do?
What is my purpose here?
I try and peddle as fast as I can in life... to experience new things, to laugh, and to be true and real... to have authentic friendships... participate in genuine family relationships.
After reading one of my devotions it hit me...
Just be me! God made me!
So if I feel that what I am doing for Christ is simple, it is important to God.
God's message is:
The end is not yet! My story is not over and neither is yours.
Even when we get white hair, knees that ache, hands that hurt...
God is not finished with me or You!! We can still do God's work.
Ecclesiastes 3:11-13 God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planned eternity in the human heart, but even so people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end. SO I have concluded that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to enjoy themselves as long as they can. And People should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor for these are gifts from God.
Ecclesiastes 3:11-13 God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planned eternity in the human heart, but even so people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end. SO I have concluded that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to enjoy themselves as long as they can. And People should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor for these are gifts from God.
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