the 2nd half of life
I’m not much for talking about “mid-life” and that sort of thing. But this morning I read this. It’s from Dan Webster’s workbook, The Real Deal.
The 2nd half of life is lived more out of who we are than the energy that we have. Life tends to beat us up over time and we find ourselves needing to sit at the Lord’s feet to be healed, encouraged, and loved. As we do this our character finally gets around to becoming Christ-like. That’s a good thing because in the 2nd half of life we tend to say less. There is little interest in blabbing the shallow answers that we once developed into “cool” message outlines. Instead we come humbly to others and share the small parts of our hearts that carry lessons learned by the grace of Gdo. This doesn’t happen overnight, it takes years of living and submitting to the Lord for it to happen authentically.
You’re my cave to hide in, my cliff to climb.
Be my safe leader, be my true mountain guide.
Psalms 31:3 (MSG)
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Yeah, the mid-life thing irritates me as cliche except that the older I get I realize how much I want to be doing things that matter and I am realizing how much of what I say and do can really affect someone – positively or negatively. I tend to be cynical by nature and know I fail when that side comes out. It does take years – and years of doing it wrong and think we are right before we want to do it right and do it the way Jesus would and know it deep down – knowing that what comes out starts from way within.