Aging with Assurance

 “Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief. My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭31:9-10‬ ‭NIV‬‬

https://www.bible.com/111/psa.31.9-10.niv

I’ve seen many years and my furrowed face tells the story.  My silvered tresses belie an unspoken youthfulness that courses through my veins.  My body groans with the weight of age but my spirit is light.  Yesterday is not a shadow but a remembrance of both the happy and sad; glimmer of patterned rituals that molded who I am today.  I am hopeful that tomorrow is going to be the same; a series of moments congealing in time all at once breaking and making; creating a fashioned creature purposed to be eternal.

God remind me again that I was made according to your image and likeness.  Your breath of life expands my chest that propels the steady beating of my heart.  It is your exquisite design that makes me both a clay that this world burdens and a spirit that takes me soaring to the heavens.  I was made by you for your own and I want to be with you.  Hear me oh Lord for my cries of anguish.  I longed to be released from anxieties and fears.  It is not just the changes in my body but the brokenness in spirit that needs refreshment and light.  You are the living God and my life hangs on a thread without you.  Heed my call oh Lord my God for you are life giving and your saving grace is what I need to breathe again.