These are amazing times in which we live. The role for each of us who are growing into Elderhood is significant. My deep and ongoing prayer is that we are finding our path, our creativity and voice and imagination, our courageous Self and soulful purpose, our unique expression of how it is that we are here to make a positive difference in the world. No act is too small. Every act rooted in wisdom, kindness, and love matters. And our grandchildren and the children yet unborn, and the children of all of the species everywhere, are looking to us now to step into our place in the family of things and claim our part in doing what we can to leave the world a better place. Another world is truly possible. It is up to us. Then, when we are at the doorway passing from this world to the next we will be able to answer with a resounding Yes! to the question: "Did we love well? Were we kind? Did we become who we are?"
Bless us all,
Molly
The Final Years Have a Very
Important Purpose
The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.
We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world.
It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.
Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we are simply by lasting into later years; the older we become, the more our true natures emerge. Thus the final years have a very important purpose: the fulfillment and confirmation of one’s character.
— James Hillman
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