I Don't Know, Have You Figured It Out?

It seems that the older I get, the less I know and the more willing I am to admit it!  Today I had some time to kill so I went to the school where I taught for many years.  As I sat in the teacher workroom cutting out laminating projects, I was able to share life with a group of ladies I greatly respect, ranging in age from 35 to 58.  We are all at different places in life and I love it!

What intrigues me about women is that we often think another age group has it made.  In our teens, we think the twenty-year-olds have it made.  In our thirties we think the forty-year olds have it made and on up the ladder until society puts that admiration to a stop and we are just perceived as old.

I want to let you in on a little secret, there is no "golden age."  Every stage of life has its challenges and its blessings.  There is no magic formula to follow.  We will never be able to anticipate the challenges each of our children will have or the blessings that will be bestowed on them.  We will never be able to predict how our parents will age or how we will for that matter.  It is all a journey of faith and a journey of grace.

Just as I love storytelling, I love listening to stories as well!  Every woman I meet has a story worth telling and a story worth hearing.  You may have a single mom living on one side of you and a grandmother raising her grandchildren on the other.  Both are trying to figure life out.  They need your grace just as much as you need theirs.

I have to say, I haven't figured much out but I do have a survival bag filled with some pretty great tools at this stage of life.  I can share them, I can lend them and I can borrow some from you.  Life is a constant blend of challenges and blessings.  

As women we need to...

 Share together.  Dream together.  Cry together
Laugh together. Pray together.

The truth is, none of us really have it figured out, but walking the journey together makes the challenges a little easier and the blessings even greater.