{"id":1989,"date":"2014-11-23T17:59:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T22:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etheriedge.wordpress.com\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2020-11-30T19:41:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T00:41:25","slug":"the-possibilities-of-growing-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/23\/the-possibilities-of-growing-old\/","title":{"rendered":"The possibilities of growing old&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to think 50 was really old. Now the closer I get to it the younger it seems \ud83d\ude42 I also used to think I&#8217;d know everything I needed to know by mid-life.\u00a0I felt sure I&#8217;d have more strengths and lesser weaknesses. I thought I&#8217;d be perfected and accomplished at something.\u00a0I&#8217;m laughing because that&#8217;s just not the way it is. I&#8217;m definitely wiser from trial and error, but the older I get, the more I realize what I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to burst the bubble of those younger than me. It&#8217;s just not all \u00a0<em>figured out<\/em>\u00a0by a certain age. This however, has been a wonderful revelation. I have time. God isn&#8217;t finished with me yet. I&#8217;m discovering that I&#8217;m as fresh and young as my latest testing, training, and stretching.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m constantly being made ready. For what? Who knows what&#8217;s on the horizon. No matter our age God has plans. Look at Moses who was called at 80 years old! There&#8217;s a lot ahead and this is hope. How awesome to think that God is preparing me, that He&#8217;s not finished transforming until my last breath.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not stuck (as I feel some days). God is not hampered. As long as I&#8217;m willing, I&#8217;m being groomed for His next assignment&#8230; <em>even during the current one<\/em>. He doesn&#8217;t see\u00a0problems, only opportunities.\u00a0Oh, to have His eyes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ForGlorySake!<\/strong> <em>-Anna<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_8826.jpg?resize=640%2C853&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_8826.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_8826.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_8826.jpg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_8826.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to think 50 was really old. Now the closer I get to it the younger it seems \ud83d\ude42 I also used to think I&#8217;d know everything I needed to know by mid-life.\u00a0I felt sure I&#8217;d have more strengths &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/23\/the-possibilities-of-growing-old\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1420,4,8],"tags":[26,71,102,131,289,369,633],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","category-illness","category-practical-life","tag-age","tag-being-useful","tag-called-by-god","tag-chosen","tag-gifted","tag-growing-older","tag-prepared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUt4s-w5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5542,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/5542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}