http://www.dianenoble.com/journal/weathering/ Unlocking the Secrets of the Heart Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:23:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.dianenoble.com/journal/weathering/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Leslie Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:34:30 +0000 http://dianenoble.wordpress.com/2006/11/10/weathering/#comment-7 I really enjoyed this post. I confess that this issue has been on my mind of late, as I will be turning 50 in a few months and I'm grappling with the fact that even though "I'm just a kid" ha ha, the wrinkles are indeed showing up. I think our generation never truly believed that we would get old. That stuff was for our mothers, and it was okay for them. Well, as I have thought over the whole interesting subject, I've really examined myself to find how I can gracefully accept the changes and the inevitable marching on of time, across my face and down my sagging body. It has occurred to me lately, that God designed these bodies of ours, and he designed them specifically to age (aka deteriorate-- gulp). They are vessels, and they were never intended to look 25 when they are 60. Hollywood has tried to convince us otherwise, but the fact is that God outfitted us in flawed pieces of epidermis, and there is no way to get around that, though with some money and a desire to go under the scalpel, we can temporarily disguise the truth. I have many scars, some from surgeries, some from stupid, clumsy accidents, and I view them as a road map, a very cool way of seeing that life has been lived in this old bod of mine. I've been down lots of highways and have some skid marks to prove it. I have wrinkles, and freckles, man oh man I do regret those teens years of lying on the beach slathered in Hawaiian Tropic Oil! But hey, you know what they say about hindsight... This life on earth, in these bodies, is just Step One of the journey, and if we happily accept the fact that our souls, and not our bodies, are made for eternity, it makes it a lot easier to look in the mirror and be happy with the whole plan. Indeed we are who we are inside, and the outside is going to go in the dumper sooner or later, so the sooner we accept the little veins and wrinkles, the more happily we can embrace the process and move on with the important things of life. Well, that's my long-winded, rambling take on things. Oh, and I AM still just a kid! :) Thanks for the post. It's right on the money and very affirming for me! I really enjoyed this post. I confess that this issue has been on my mind of late, as I will be turning 50 in a few months and I’m grappling with the fact that even though “I’m just a kid” ha ha, the wrinkles are indeed showing up. I think our generation never truly believed that we would get old. That stuff was for our mothers, and it was okay for them.
Well, as I have thought over the whole interesting subject, I’ve really examined myself to find how I can gracefully accept the changes and the inevitable marching on of time, across my face and down my sagging body.
It has occurred to me lately, that God designed these bodies of ours, and he designed them specifically to age (aka deteriorate– gulp). They are vessels, and they were never intended to look 25 when they are 60. Hollywood has tried to convince us otherwise, but the fact is that God outfitted us in flawed pieces of epidermis, and there is no way to get around that, though with some money and a desire to go under the scalpel, we can temporarily disguise the truth.
I have many scars, some from surgeries, some from stupid, clumsy accidents, and I view them as a road map, a very cool way of seeing that life has been lived in this old bod of mine. I’ve been down lots of highways and have some skid marks to prove it.
I have wrinkles, and freckles, man oh man I do regret those teens years of lying on the beach slathered in Hawaiian Tropic Oil! But hey, you know what they say about hindsight…
This life on earth, in these bodies, is just Step One of the journey, and if we happily accept the fact that our souls, and not our bodies, are made for eternity, it makes it a lot easier to look in the mirror and be happy with the whole plan.
Indeed we are who we are inside, and the outside is going to go in the dumper sooner or later, so the sooner we accept the little veins and wrinkles, the more happily we can embrace the process and move on with the important things of life.
Well, that’s my long-winded, rambling take on things. Oh, and I AM still just a kid!
Thanks for the post. It’s right on the money and very affirming for me!

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