Keep On Keeping On

I’ve reached a stage of life where I find change must occur. Age, mobility, natural strength, injuries, and perhaps a slowing of my thinking processes. Yes. I’m enjoying slowing down. Truth? I push back at a slower pace and try to re-enter daily life as if I were young. Didn’t I once brag on the fact I could work all day and be happy with the effort?

When you try to do all you used to do when it was easy,
and now it’s not?
Well, frustration is probably your worst enemy.

I enjoy sitting in my chair a little longer each morning, catching up on my reading, posting, writing, thinking, and planning. I have found myself lounging longer, and then my mind says to move, and I get up to accomplish whatever is before me.

Is that age? Perhaps. It’s definitely a change of focus.

In the middle of my slow time, I desire to keep pressing forward, being a difference, making a difference, and enjoying my newfound age!

Regardless of the pace, I plan to keep on keeping on.

The Race is Done, When the Race is Done

Too many are gone before their time, and we feel their race of life was not quite done. While that’s true, their race is done. There’s nothing they or anyone else can do about it.

As one person tells me he promises never to say this again, “It is what it is.”

My goal is to live till triple digits. Moses did. Can I be like him?

Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died.
His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished.
(Deuteronomy 34:7 NKJV)

The next generation to follow had him as a representative image to duplicate. Consider Caleb. 45 years after being chosen to be a spy in the promised land and the subsequent 40 years wandering in the wilderness, the Promised Land is directly ahead.

And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years,
ever since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness;
and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.
As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me;
just as my strength was then,
so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in.
Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke in that day; f
or you heard in that day how the Anakim were there,
and that the cities were great and fortified.
It may be that the LORD will be with me,
and I shall be able to drive them out as the LORD said.”
(Joshua 14:10-12 NKJV)

I suspect that you are only as capable as you see yourself.

My Goal?

Keep being capable! Don’t slow down to time or age. Keep striving to become and never be satisfied taking the rocking chair view of life.

Of course, it’s in my hands to do with me what I want, so some changes are in order.

Health. Wealth. Weight. Strength. Hmmm… maybe it’s time for another degree. It’s so about time to finish my book. Define a working plan, and work the plan. Keep my goals realistic. Share the load better. Slow down and smell some freshly mown hay every so often or the crisp air after a storm.

Life is often about your attitude of how you plan on moving forward.
Keep a good attitude even when the challenges are rough.

In other words, I need to take better care of myself. It’s not too late. I can do this!

We will all age well, or the race will be finished too soon. [Read This]