Not only are my beloved and I celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary this month, it is our 30th on the 30th. In my heart, I feel young and fresh. But my years and face tell a different story. I guess on a woman's 30th wedding anniversary, she is considered aged. Women today try to hold onto youth into their sixties, which is odd. Although I don't intend to cut my hair, get a curly perm, buy support hose, and walk with a cane quite yet, I belong to the aged crowd.
I want to ease into my aged years with grace instead of fighting them with black in a bottle and teen styles. Remaining active, social, and taking responsibility for my own health, I just might make this goal a reality.
"That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed." Titus 2: 2-5
I must question if I am sober, grave, temperate, and sound in faith, charity and patience. Do I behave myself in a becoming way? Certainly, I don't drink wine, but do I falsely accuse? Do I teach good things to younger women? Soul searching is a good thing and ought to be done at all stages of life.
