In the evening of life you will be examined in love. Learn then to love as God desires to be loved and abandon your own ways of acting’. (St. John of the Cross)
One dear lady from our St. Anne’s Holy Rosary group passed away and I got invited to watch her funeral Holy Mass on television with her friends. I pray Holy Rosary with them twice every week so this was very precious for me. Afterwards I got to enjoy lunch with them all.
We ate in silence, not one word uttered throughout. No discussing, no grumbling, no asking questions. Movingly beautiful even now, many hours later. Not a sullen silence, far from it!! Elderly folk happy with their lot needing nothing more than they what they possessed in the sacred moment.
Meal over, we prayed Holy Rosary together and sang hymns. Lots of laughter too as always. Humour never in short supply.
So beautiful every moment. Getting older doesn’t scare me and that is for sure. Of course it is not all plain sailing, there are challenges, but there’s a freedom too. With acceptance there is peace.
Perhaps it is never too early to begin letting go of stuff. I love St. Mother Teresa’s quote;
‘Accept whatever God gives you and give whatever God takes from you with a smile’.
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