So here we are…another year older and perhaps a bit wiser…at times <3
At shortly before midnight tonight, I will have officially lived 67 years on planet Earth.
Yes, I made my due date just barely. Slipping in under the wire, just like I have been ever since.
This morning I wrote a prayer thanking God for His goodness to me. Every day of my life, He has cared for and provided for me faithfully.
I am blessed richly with my husband and the family we share, friends of all ages and stages, mercy and kindness, provision and health.
While I have always loved my birthday, it is shocking sometimes to realize how fast the years have flown by.
Sometimes when I see a photograph of myself someone has snapped, I am surprised at some of the changes that mark the years.
I am more careful with my self-photography than candids reveal. Ha!
But I read the most delightful piece just last night by a lady in her 80’s who had her cataracts removed and while she was enjoying the bright colors and details of so much of nature and her home once she could see clearly, she had this to say about her reflection in the mirror:
“My body has borne five children, plus one who didn’t live. This body has sheltered me in storms and baked an unholy number of cakes. This body has laughed and planted gardens, worn gloves, and loved. I will never put a knife to it for being wrinkled.
To me when I looked in the mirror after cataract surgery that day, many of my wrinkles were new, but everyone I knew had already seen me with them. They were more used to the way I looked than I was! No one had been unkind to me because of the way I look and I’ve never really been horrified by the wrinkles on others either. If others had gotten used to me looking at me, then surely I could get used to looking at myself.
If we laugh and try to have as much fun as possible each day, we’ll get laugher lines instead of bitter crow’s feet. To laugh is more important…”
Margareta Magnusson; “The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly”, Simon Schuster, 2022 pg. 68
So; here’s to laughter and embracing the wrinkles for another year.
Here’s to another 365 days of Best Day Ever’s and more stories for the Journey <3