Recently, when having a discussion with an older gentleman, we were discussing life and how he wanted to fulfill many things before he dies. Knowing my age, he said I was on the sunny side of sixty, which I thought was funny. Sunny. Sixty. That number!
Sunny side I get, but this sixty number is affecting me the closer I get. How did this happen so quickly? I, too, have things I want to do as he does before the grave. I was twenty one day, then forty and now on the sunny side.
No doubt many of you have felt the same through the years or as the birthday candles increase.
While life has not been too bad, many rough patches came and not to forget the many blessings. Life.
Thankfully, I feel more alive physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually today than I did almost five years ago. It has not been easy going to counseling and opening up and dealing with areas of life and those rough patches. It has been healing though while understanding the whys, questions, and uncertainties as I had to trust my counselor and moreso God.
I do not know what the other side of sixty looks like for me but I’ll be aiming for the sweet side of seventy and will be laughing and having fun along the way.
Lets make the most of our time left here on earth and be a blessing to others. Remember…
I have had it for years because not only is it funny, I feel it to be true. Too much to do. End result, if and when death happens, it does not matter. Humor helps when the stress of life seems to swallow one up.
To this day, I still have on my bulletin board above my desk that reads, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” That was what helped me tackle the files in front of me day after day and some nights; one file at a time. Well, crying out to the Lord oftentimes of I need your help, direction and wisdom to get me through, or how can I make this better, etc. Today, my office run smoothly and very orderly but it did not happen overnight.
No matter if you feel as though you are begging for His help, and we often do, but direction and wisdom in an area that needs attention to go forward in an area or in a perhaps stupid mistake you caused, He knows already. He is there for me, you and each of us. He wants us to call upon Him.
Realizing childhood emotional abuse can cause children to try and be perfect just to get noticed or praised and not to forget to feel and be loved, they will go over and above to gain those things. I did as I needed all those things. Even up into adulthood.
going to measure the margins, etc. I would. That’s how detailed I have been in life with such for one instance.
I tend to shrug my shoulders a lot more in life as a reminder I do not need to be perfect.
Just Pondering... 