Take a Page from an Old Crone

You need only ask an old crone about life to learn what has become important and what is irrelevant.  When you reach older years, you become suddenly more in tune with yourself than at any other time in your life.  This is the blessing of old age.  For while the body may begin to break down or deteriorate, and while the abilities seem to lessen and the disabilities seem to increase, there is a dawning awareness that comes over you.  Do not fear aging.  For aging is the most precious gift you can receive.  When you are allowed to make the journey into these aged times, when you can begin to count the decades of your life on both hands, then you are in a very formidable position.  You can look at the events in your life, the good and the bad and you can see where you have made mistakes.  You can see where you have appreciated the good and when you have missed something that would have been cherished given another opportunity to live at that time in your  life.

Bring all your awareness to who you are at this time of life.  A person who has made and met many a challenge can speak from authority and knowing.  An elder is to be respected and listened to for the wisdom they impart.  For only they know the secrets of a happy life.  It can come about at any age, but it is more pronounced as you age and lose the agility and physical beauty of the outer physical body.  As you learn to lean on others for support and assistance a great measure of grace is bestowed upon you.  You are humbled. 
Take your moments as they come.  One by one.  Measure them against your heart and see where they give you joy.  Where they give you sorrow, search for the meaning of that sorrow.  Search for the lining that is around that experience which gives it a glow. For in those times when you have suffered or cried, it is precisely in those times that God has held you so very, very close.  The father does this for you. And the Mother gives you her back on which to climb upon for support, stability and nurturing.  When you feel low, hug your Mother Earth.  Give it all to her for transmutation.  She is as old as time and as enduring as all eternity.  The mother is the physical.  The father is the spiritual.  Together, they made you!  Celebrate who you are at any age and learn.  Be at peace in the present moment with who and what you are, what you have become and what you have yet to experience.  It is never  over, this journey called life.  It continues.  And you continue.  Keep smiling :-)