Tag Archives: Growing Older

Young and Old Hodgepodge

It it’s Wednesday it must be time for Wednesday Hodgepodge

Thank you to Joyce for supplying the questions each week.

1. What’s something you enjoy now that your younger self would never have appreciated? 

Being able to climb into bed earlier in the evening, calling it a day before 9pm.

2. What was peaceful about today? 

There is nothing on the calendar or to do list for today and we had already planned on eating out today so we’ll enjoy what the day brings and then being served a meal.

3. It’s National Blueberry Day (July 8). Will you celebrate?  You can have one of the following right now-a slice of blueberry pie, a warm blueberry muffin, or a stack of blueberry pancakes…which do you choose?

I do have fresh blueberries in the refrigerator. Time will tell if I manage to bake some blueberry muffins on this very hot day.

This or that-blueberries or raspberries?

Raspberries

Blueberries or strawberries? 

Strawberries

4. Do you need a break? From what? 

I don’t need a break from anything but I could use some help in trying to get on top of our weeds.

5. What has surprised you most about getting older? 

So much…

How hard it is to roll over in bed these days

How hard it is to get up off the floor

How quickly the wrinkles are forming

How hard it is to lose weight.

Now some positive surprises…

The wonderful freedom of travel.

How we can survive on one meal a day.

Good medical care w/o paying a fortune.

Cell phones and the internet and GPS!

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Our sons were able to attend the USA v Belgium game on Monday in Seattle. Even though the game was not the best that the US has played it was amazing for them to enjoy the World Cup Excitement together. One of the highlights of their day was getting Alexi Lalas’s attention so he could see a photo of the three of them from the 1994 World Cup and then for him to take a 2026 photo with them!

1994

2026

It was a wonderful treat for the two of them to spend this time together at this international event in their own backyard!

I’ll still be watching every game until the end to see who wins World Cup in 2026!

In the Wee Hours

I first published this on April 14, 2007. I’m cleaning up some of my early posts and getting rid of any photos that aren’t mine.  I thought this was a good reminder and prayer for me…

The original title of this post was Three A.M. Prayers ~ The Joys of Growing Older…

An interesting thing happens when you are over 50, you begin new sleep patterns. One of my frequent tendencies is to awake too early to get up so this has been a great opportunity for prayer in my life. Sometimes because my brain is not  filled with the cares of the day I can think more clearly.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18: “Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

Here’s one of my 3:00 A.M. prayers…

Lord help me today to recognize my own depravity, my resistance to your holiness. Help me to realize my need to repent every new day and turn my face from myself to you and to what you want me to do. Help me to know that my past is totally forgiven and I need to concentrate on today and what you are doing now in my life. Help me to recognize that the only reason I am loved and blessed is because of what Jesus did for me. I am no better than any other sinner on the earth except for what you have done for me. Help me not to ignore the fact that even though I am no better than any other sinner I still need to extend your Kingdom to them in any way I can. Help me to recognize that my fellow believers will fail just like me and that they are forgiven and redeemed just like me. Wipe out any self righteousness that remains in me. Help me to remember how important forgiveness and reconciliation are in your kingdom, first and foremost between You and me. I am amazed at your willingness to continually forgive and redeem. You are a great God.

I Thessalonians 5:23
“May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.”

Blessings on your heads today!
Ellen B.