Encouraging and equipping women over 60 to live their best life!
Each season offers beauty, purpose, and challenges. In our minds, and hearts, we must see the beauty and purpose within our place in life. And we need to know God is sovereign—He has a plan in mind. He has a purpose. And He makes beauty out of our ashes.
Do you still have a longing to use gifts and talents that you have put on the shelf while you were busy homemaking, mothering, or building a career? It is never too late! I have learned that age is just a number. It is my hope that you will continue to find new sisters in this after-60 phase of life—who are women living out their best lives.
By doing all the prep work in the morning, and getting back to everything else about an hour before your guests arrive, you should have time for a nice rest or other projects.
Ah, the power of a personal mission statement: not cautious but extravagant, not to get, but to give. What changes do you need to make to love your spouse extravagantly? Make it your personal purpose statement: love extravagantly.
You never really know how you will react, especially after years and years of trying to prepare yourself. My first reaction privately, Thank you God! Immediately, tears streamed down my face. Then I thought, Wait a minute! My mother was no longer suffering and confined to a bed, needing help for every basic need. I knew she was in heaven, so why the tears?
I always thought I’d write a book: “Yes, I Could Travel with just Two Pairs of Shoes, but Why?” The subtitle was going to be: “Finding Fun in a World focused on Efficiency.” I never wrote the book as I never found an answer worthy of a book.
Remember the feeling of being chosen to a team in PE when you were a child, or being chosen for a dance at your high school dance, or being chosen to be someone’s bride? All those events make you feel special because you have been selected, picked out as the object of choice. You’re not just one of the crowd—a #126. God sits with you and wants to remind you that you are His.
It is wise for us to retreat into our own wilderness—whether it be on a mountaintop, the desert, or a park a couple of miles away from home. This has been most profitable for me. I have found that it allows clarity of thinking and the ability to focus better on the more important matters in life.
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The time for forgiveness is always right now. Delayed forgiveness compresses anger, and anger breeds bitterness, which changes the way a person thinks, talks, and acts. Unforgiveness negatively transforms and causes separation. To maintain healthy relationships, and avoid the fallout from holding on to hurt, forgiveness is necessary.
