Comments on: The Gift of Age http://terricamp.com/the-gift-of-age/ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:35:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Peter http://terricamp.com/the-gift-of-age/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Peter Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:12:57 +0000 http://terricamp.com/?p=245#comment-273 While "aging" seems to bring to mind the thought of new physical aches, pains, and limitations, I feel only joy as I consider the result of growing in maturity. The longer I live, the more experience I have in seeing the faithfulness of God. Today is a new day, and I can say, "Hmmm... Another day where He has not failed me. That makes 17135 days in a row!" There are some physical evidences of growing maturity that are painful, but there are others that are only painful if we choose to take them that way. I feel in some ways that I earned every gray hair I have, and I display that gray with joy: seeing it as it is described in scripture as a crown of glory. Bring it on! The best is yet to come! While “aging” seems to bring to mind the thought of new physical aches, pains, and limitations, I feel only joy as I consider the result of growing in maturity. The longer I live, the more experience I have in seeing the faithfulness of God. Today is a new day, and I can say, “Hmmm… Another day where He has not failed me. That makes 17135 days in a row!”

There are some physical evidences of growing maturity that are painful, but there are others that are only painful if we choose to take them that way. I feel in some ways that I earned every gray hair I have, and I display that gray with joy: seeing it as it is described in scripture as a crown of glory.

Bring it on! The best is yet to come!

]]> By: Tele Raack http://terricamp.com/the-gift-of-age/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Tele Raack Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:38:57 +0000 http://terricamp.com/?p=245#comment-272 Happy Birthday! Here is an exerpt from a recent post on my blog http://womanwifemomme.blogspot.com/ that ties into aging: Fall is my favorite season! I akin the seasons to life's cycle and considering I'm in the second half of my 40's, I would venture to say that I am living in what is the Fall season of my life. I want to experience it with the same wonder and zeal that I feel from it's crisp,cool breeze and it's beauty unfolding before my eyes. WomanWifeMomMe on Twitter Happy Birthday! Here is an exerpt from a recent post on my blog http://womanwifemomme.blogspot.com/ that ties into aging: Fall is my favorite season! I akin the seasons to life’s cycle and considering I’m in the second half of my 40′s, I would venture to say that I am living in what is the Fall season of my life. I want to experience it with the same wonder and zeal that I feel from it’s crisp,cool breeze and it’s beauty unfolding before my eyes.
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]]> By: Gwen http://terricamp.com/the-gift-of-age/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Gwen Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:04:34 +0000 http://terricamp.com/?p=245#comment-271 "It is the lines in a persons face that lets us know how much they have laughed, considered carefully, grimaced in their lifetime." Leonard Koren I remember when I was about twenty-three, talking to a woman who must have been in her forties (as I am now). She told me I was beautiful. I thanked her but explained that while it was possible for me to be pretty, I could not achieve full beauty until I had grown a little older and my face showed a few lines and wrinkles--the signs of wisdom. True beauty, I told her, can only be born of experience. I feel vanity creep into my thought process regularly, and I sometimes long for my youth. Reading this today reminds me that I can still be beautiful. “It is the lines in a persons face that lets us know how much they have laughed, considered carefully, grimaced in their lifetime.” Leonard Koren

I remember when I was about twenty-three, talking to a woman who must have been in her forties (as I am now). She told me I was beautiful. I thanked her but explained that while it was possible for me to be pretty, I could not achieve full beauty until I had grown a little older and my face showed a few lines and wrinkles–the signs of wisdom. True beauty, I told her, can only be born of experience.

I feel vanity creep into my thought process regularly, and I sometimes long for my youth. Reading this today reminds me that I can still be beautiful.

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