Five Decades

September 18, 2012 at 6:30 AM (Confessions, From the Heart)

“Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting” The White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland

My ears are fine, but my hairs are surely getting white!

Proverbs 16:31

New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)

³¹ Gray hair is a crown of splendor;
it is attained by a righteous life.

I am super righteous, according to my hairs.

I am 50 years old today. My lands a living, how did that happen? It seems like I was just 6.

I can still remember being the ages that our children are right now. At 18 I was a high school graduate starting my first full time job. At 21 I was going to cosmetology school and enjoying a full social life, and at 23 I married Honey, definitely an excellent choice!

Isaiah 46:4

⁴ Even to your old age and gray hairs
I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

I just got off skype with Mrs. Schmenkman, who is also celebrating the big 5-0 in a couple of weeks, and we agree that we do not know where the years have gone. It seems like yesterday we were 25 and working at the hair salon where we met. We were young, THIN and cool!

There has been much living in the last 25 years. Joy, heartache, growth, contentment, refinement and peace. Bring on the next 25 years!

I know in my heart that it is just a number and I am looking forward to the next half of my life with great anticipation.

Psalms 71:17-18

¹⁷ Since my youth, O God, you have taught me,
and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.
¹⁸ Even when I am old and gray,
do not forsake me, O God,
till I declare your power to the next generation,
your might to all who are to come.