"Every year, you will trade a little of your perfect skin
and your ability to look great without exercising for wisdom and peace and
groundedness, and every year the trade will be worth it. I promise."
--Shauna Niequist
I've thought of this quote a number of times this week since I turned 44 on Monday. 40 slid by since Steve and I had just gotten married but somehow forty-FOUR sounds, uhem, more impressive. I was slightly distracted by the fact that I spent part of the day in the hospital with Steve who had a minor operation (No it's wasn't THAT minor operation! And he's doing very well, thank you.). That's how my 30th slid by since I was in the hospital because I had just had Aaron by C-section the day before.
Maybe it's the twinning of the 4's that makes me stop and think. The next twinning for me will be 55!
Anyway, the above quote is oh so true. Would I go back? Absolutely not! It's that 'groundedness' that my spell check doesn't recognize as a real word that clinches the deal for me. There are times I'm not as comfortable in the mirror as I was when I was younger, but I'm so much more comfortable in my own skin. Even if it's not as firm as it used to be!
And maybe as the outside gets less and the inside gets greater and more connected to Him, the truth that my skin on this earth is not my real home becomes more apparent. Someday I'm gonna shed this skin and that's just fine--------because that's when the REAL fun starts!
I do think that when Shauna said the above that she must have been younger than I am now, however. Because the truth is, "....your ability to look great without exercising," and DIETING is closer to the truth for me now!!!
