I love the season of life that I am now in. I can hardly believe how it's changing me. I feel a surge of energy and vitality that I haven't felt in a long time.
This season of "empty nest" is wonderful!
It took about a year and a half for me to figure out what I should do, what I could do, and who I am, or who I wanted to be.
What I love about it so much is the change of responsibility. For such a long time my focus and energy was solely concentrated on my children and my home. As the kids grew older, the responsibility for their primary care, got less and less. Now of course, there are other concerns about them, but the day to day care is not there.
So I am free to develop other interests in my life, increase my understanding of my faith and reach out to build relationships and minister to those God brings along my path.
I love the spontaneity of deciding at the wee hours of the night to be completely irresponsible and sit by the fire cuddled up with my husband, listening to our favourite CD and drinking coffee. We have the freedom to do this every once in awhile . Or the casual drive in the car on a summer day and we end up in the city to watch a movie and decide to stay overnight.
It's moments like these that make life amazing. It's the ability to keep the dream alive, to live life to the fullest with the person you love the most.
I find that I must fight for these moments and embrace them when the time is there or they are lost to the many and urgent demands of just living. The magic and joy of the moment can be stolen from us and before long we survive and cope without even realizing they are missing. We get used to the "hum drum" of living.
There is so much more that we need to dream about, to believe in. Things can be better, there can be a difference in our situations. There can be an "inbreaking" that only God can manoevre and deliver.
The memories we create at this stage in our lives will carry us through the years ahead when tough times come and we forget who we are.
Years ago I came across this quote that lived on my fridge for a very long time - "To love someone, is to learn the song that is in their heart and sing it to them when they've forgotten."
We need to remind each other who they are, where they've come from, what they've accomplished, and the dreams they once had.
The dreams we have today, have no expiry date - they can keep evolving, changing, growing, but they must never die.
Live to dream - dream to live.
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