Coming out…It’s a New Season
I noticed something amazing about plants, some of them have the ability to come back to life… so to speak. This beautiful plant in the picture was thrown out and left to die in the bin-room in our complex. My housemate decided to see if it would re-grow once it was watered and given a home amongst the other plants on our stoep…. just look at the beautiful flowers it produced!
Transitions
I haven’t written a blog for some time now, I guess I have been hibernating for the past few months, I was inspired a few days ago to share my thoughts and feelings about embracing change – transitioning from midlife to my senior years.
It has been a challenging time for me to accept the fact that I am aging. In my mind I am still young and energetic and full of plans for the future. It came as shock when I woke up on the day before my Golden Jubilee Birthday…. After having denied my age for years. I was about to be 60 years old in a day! Fortunately, I came across the Chinese philosophy that age 60 it is the beginning of ‘New Life’.
I immediately decided to embrace this mindset!
Learning To Trust
I am going have to believe that I am stepping into the beginning of a new life! Being in hibernation I thought about how we age… It seems that, when we in our thirties and forties it is still okay, but as time passes, you wake up one day and you discover that many of your plans did not come to fruition.
You might have had plans to go to university or buy a house or travel…but now it seems like we are stagnating or even regressing. At least that is how I feel at times. But let me encourage you it is a process. Beautiful Life Training and Community Development as an organisation has been running for twelve years and yet it is still not financially stable, and we are still working towards achieving our organisational goals every day. I have come to the realisation that Beautiful Life TCD is a God- breathed initiative and he holds the future.
You might be in the same boat. You might have had goals and dreams for the future, but it seems like it will never happen. Maybe its time to change our approach!?
Re-looking the dream
The Bible says there is a time for everything, there are seasons. We might be in that season of winter and hibernation, planting and watering the seeds which you planted in your heart in the past. Maybe now is the time to work towards realising the dream. You want to write that book or start that business. Maybe now you can start looking at ways to make it a reality not only a dream. In time your plant will also blossom!
Determination: Don’t Give up on your dream
Yes, it takes a lot to be passionate and excited when its winter in your life, when it’s cold and raining and when you are struggling on your own, when you don’t see a change. Even though it is taking a long time to reach your goals, you may be in your youth, midlife, or late adulthood, regardless of your age, you would never have had that dream if it was unachievable. “Deep within you lies a seed of greatness waiting to be germinate ” Myles Munroe
Recently I met a priest whom I had not seen in years; I distinctly remember him because he was so charismatic. I was amazed to learn that he is still around at the age of 90 plus years….and very active. He is still excited about life and passionate about his work! He even has a Whatsapp group! Let’s just pause and think about how many sick people has he visited, how many families has he counselled, how many people has he encountered with problems and how many people did he bury in his lifetime? I had the privilege of having him pray for me. He prayed with faith and enthusiastically. It is amazing that this man over the age of ninety is still passionate about life. He looks like a man in his sixties!
This made me realise It does not matter how old you are, or where your come from, if you have a dream, You should pursue that dream, don’t let it go, it might not transpire in a day, in a month or in a year. Occasionally it happens over-night, but mostly it is a process, we have to keep going, and believing that we will achieve our goals, no matter what season of life you are experiencing, winter or autumn, spring- time or summer- time, your life matters. There is a time that things transpire….change does come.
Visualise the dream
The song, I gotta believe by Yolanda Adams has inspired me so much, I hope it will encourage you too, especially this verse:
I have to see myself at the finish line
I have to visualize that everything will fall in line
I have to visualize the land while riding through the storm
I have to trust in my father and open up my heart
I know that I can do this I know that I can win
Just as long as I have his love within
I think this has been a very difficult time frame for many of us to deal with the changes in our lives. We have been challenged in many ways, but I believe we have the potential to produce wealth, in more ways than one, not only in the natural, but we have the ability to be more than we could ever imagine. We sometimes think because we are older; We’re too old to go back to school, to travel, or to make a difference. We limit ourselves, I want to encourage you to step out in faith, embrace this season in your life, no matter where you are at, walk with me along this journey called life or in my case ” New Life!”
QUOTE: ‘I believe I can fly! I believe I can touch the sky!’ Yolanda Adams
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