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Don’t you know? Haven’t you heard?     The Eternal, the Everlasting God, The Creator of the whole world, never gets tired or weary.     His wisdom is beyond understanding. God strengthens the weary     and gives vitality to those worn down by age and care. Young people will get tired;     strapping young men will stumble and fall. But those who trust in the Eternal One will regain their strength.     They will soar on wings as eagles. They will run—never winded, never weary.     They will walk—never tired, never faint. ( Isaiah 40:28-31 ) Today I am grateful for the strength of God when I am weary.  It's been a weary kind of week. Parenting this week has been especially taxing and I feel worn down. But I know that there is strength available to me through the Creator of strength.  And what's lucky for me is he never wears out or gets worn down!  So when I do and am I need only to invite him in. ...

Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.      Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you.      I will hold you up with my victorious right hand. Isaiah 41:10 NLT I think life is pretty scary.  It asks us to take risks, it asks us to have courage, it asks us to feel things we'd rather not, it asks us to be open to things we may never consider on our own.  Life has joy, sorrow, happiness, fear, and every other emotion you can think of.  Life holds lessons for us, if we are willing to learn.  Life is pretty scary.  And sometimes the scary is good, thrilling even.  But sometimes the scary is bad, isolating at best.   I know a fair number of people.  I watch them all tackle life and I wonder, when the bad scary of life hits, how they do it.  How do they get through loss of any significant kind, tragedy, etc without grasping the hand that created them in the first place?  I...

We do not have to become heroes overnight.  Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up...discovering we have the strength to stare it down.   Eleanor Roosevelt What's a hero?  Anyone who has the courage and fortitude to stare at what is seeking to intimidate and looking it up and down and then tackling it.  It doesn't matter what the thing is because a hero is one who conquers.  Do not feel the pressure to conquer overnight, it will take time.  The best heroes are ones who allow the process to happen and allow complete victory.  Rush it and you'll miss important steps.  Rush it and you'll think you don't have what it takes to take it down.  But you do, you have what it takes.  And I do, I have what it takes.  Let us become heroes because we are conquering those things and people in our lives that seek to intimidate.

Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.   Betty Friedan   I love getting older. Oh don't get me wrong, the physical ailments of aging aren't much fun but even those can be relieved with exercise and other things.  What I love about getting older is exactly what Friedan points out in today's quote, aging provides us opportunity to grow in character, to gain more life experience, to apply what we've already lived through to our days and to our interactions with other people.  We don't lose when we age but we gain!  If I think back to even 5 years ago I wouldn't want to return to that time.  I love what I've learned and grown in in those years.  And you couldn't pay me enough money to go back in time and be a high schooler again!  The only way I would consider going back is if I could take with me the wisdom I've gained over the years.  Aging has provided me, and hopefully you, the opportunity to grow in wisdom a...

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.   Carlos Castaneda Whoa!  Read that again!  We spend the same amount of energy, work, time, effort making ourselves strong or making ourselves miserable.  That's a powerful  thought  to ponder.  The ways in which we expend said things look different but the amount of those things is the same.  One way will lead to your life being enriched, the other way will lead to you wading in muck and mire.  Gee.  Which sounds more appealing?  The good news is that you can always change directions.  So if you find yourself wading around in muck and mire make a direction change today and start gaining strength!