"In quietness and trust is your strength>"
When I am anxious and fretting because things do not move according to my own timing and plan, I am weak, frazzled and find lots of aches and pains in body, mind and spirit. Oh to trust! “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well,”
Oh to live in the moment and to live it well not enslaved by all the "if onlys" or "what ifs". Today I want to live well in quietness and trust.
In some of my reading today, I discovered the good news that gerontologists have categorized old age into 3 stages: 65-74 year olds are the young old, 74-84 are the old old, and 85 and over are the oldest old. That means I AM NOT YET OLD!!!! I just thought I was. Ha!
As the bumper sticker says, "Don't believe everything you think!"
On the other hand, Uganda just lowered retirement age from 60 to 55. I guess old age is categorized differently depending on where you live. That means if I still lived in Uganda I would be old but since I now live in the USA I am not old.
I think the issue is not whether or not one is old but how one lives whether young or transitioning into old. A book I am beginning to read, The Gift of Years, Growing Older Gracefully, I anticipate will help me to live creatively,remaining open not closed, humble and able to listen but also willing to give of oneself. I may be writing more on this subject as time goes by.
