Can we remember, today, that there is such a thing as holy energy? That where there is need there is also grace?
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A Season of Holy Energy
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Thank you for this beautiful and positive message. By the grace of God we will thrive and thereby witness to the love of God for everyone.
I am 62, have three chronic illnesses and am facing elective surgery soon.
The concept of “holy energy” has given me hope.
I am grateful for your blog. It truly nourishes me.
I’m glad this has helped your hope. Your courage encourages me. Peace–Vinita
Yikes. Depressing. What a life to look forward to.
I suppose I should qualify my comment. The plaintive and overly soothing voice on the video reminds me of violin music along with the chin on the chest syndrome seen in nursing homes where they gather to snooze and doze and idle their time away. Over time on this blog I note that old age seems to begin at 40 and that by 60 that poor old antique should be seated in a slowly moving rocker whilst they gaze even more slowly out the window and await the grim reaper.
My grandmother lived to 101, the resident in my home lived to 102. Each thought she was 40 and made us think so too. Had anyone come along and told those two to be calm and quiet and soothed, the run would have been put onto them.
It’s all in attitude. As long as you have breath in your body you have life. If you start to treat yourself like an old old lady you will be.
I am older than you are. This blog is far too old for me.
p. s. They prayed all the time. And kept moving and thinking youthful thoughts. Amen.
The voice on this video is the same one I always have–I suppose I always sound plaintive and overly soothing! Sorry about that, but I have vocal problems and must regulate speaking accordingly. I’m glad you are too young for this blog–perhaps you’ll envigorate the rest of us. I come from a family of women who live to be quite old and who never stop until they die. But there are realities of years passing, and I try to speak to those. As always, thanks for your post. Peace–Vinita
There is a difference between vocal problems and intonation (I have a throat problem and my job does not help it any. It’s as if you feel sorry for anyone over 40 because we are old (what’s that?) and slipping away from life.
I am saying that instead of living like we are old ladies, live as if nothing ever changes and life just keeps going. A lot of issues usually relegated to age really are not and can be treated either medically or with an attitude adjustment.
People don’t offer me senior discounts — they either don’t know my age or are too afraid to suggest any. People should not be treated any differently at age 80 than they were at 40. In fact over here they went back to work in their 80s as soon as the gov’t decided it won’t dock their old age pension until they earn $5K. Society has all these parameters and categories for everything: single mother, middle aged woman, elderly man. What’s with the adjectives? Those only tell people how they erroneously think they should behave towards those categorized individuals. Makes me mad.
I cannot change the way my voice sounds, so I cannot apologize for it.
You totally missed the message so we’ll forget about it. Blessings.
Inspirational message, connecting with reality, yet hopeful! It’s is a blessing to hear women’s voices speaking about spiritual needs. This is a huge deficit in spirituality today and I am happy that more women are stepping forward so we can all share our spiritual experiences!