Age is just a number and any age is beautiful

To grow older joyfully means to accept what is!

August is my birthday month! It is a fun time with friends and family celebrating. I love it! Actually, August is special since it is not only my birthday but my sister, one of my brothers, two grandsons, and several good friends birthdays also. Plenty of reasons to celebrate the 'getting older' process. I have met people that having a birthday was a time for depression, who are not willing to accept life and enjoy every day that God has given them.

One of my favorite things to say is;

"We have a choice...You can be happy or sad. It's up to you." And it really is!

This means we decide to live with the reality that says we are the age we are, to date. As Mark Twain once said, "Age is mostly a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." Where we get into trouble is the attempt to be something we are not, whether it's in our age or in our person. This is inner deception and can also lead to self-defeat and depression.

We are the most appealing to others and the happiest when we are completely ourselves. But it is a constant struggle because, as the Scripture teaches, the world is always trying to press us into its mold. The mold of the world is the mold of the synthetic...the artificial...the celluloid...the "Plastic Person." The world cries, "You've got to be thin. You've got to be beautiful. You've got to be rich. You've got to be great. You've got to be or do this, that and the other." But the Scripture says, You don't have to be any of those things. You simply have to be yourself--at any age as God made you, available to Him so that He can work in and through you to bring about His kingdom and His glory.

So, what is your age? It really doesn't matter! Just live everyday to its fullest, do unto others as you would have them do to you, and Celebrate life!

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether he is twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." --Henry Ford