While tending the body, be realistic enough to admit that your body will never be as good as 70 as it was 17.  You are more than body so grieve if you must, but be aware of this emerging wonderful reality. 

New possibilities are opening to you. Care for your soul and you can be better at 70 as well. Care for your soul and you have made an enormous stride towards quality living. 

A new invitation to shift our focus to include caring for our eternal selves offers an opportunity in ageing. It is more as a ‘spiritual becoming’ than just as a process of loss. This can fill us with a hopeful anticipation that the future holds many ‘soulful’ opportunities.

Woman of Proverb 31

“She is not afraid of what lies ahead; she embraces the days to come. She is confident and not formidable even in the face of the ultimate reality of death. She would not trade her hard earned wisdom and life’s perspective for anything.”

The Proverbs 31 woman is an extraordinary woman. “She can laugh at the days to come”. Secure and full of a sense of well being. Come to think of it, she throws her  head back and laugh like a baby with no teeth, even during difficulties.

Can you imagine and think of yourself at some point- Yourself in her shoes. Her grey head is thrown back, revealing a deeply wrinkled face. Her mouth widens in laughter, exposing her teeth perfected by dentures, her belly bulges her dimples have long ago disappeared buried deeply in wrinkles.

But somehow she seems incredibly attractive. She is younger before your very eyes, her spirit  shines through even when experience of deteriorating health and beauty through frailty she lets laughter rip through her body she laughs with confidence. It is afire and incredible sound, the soul of laughter in the face of the earth.