Hi there,
So yes, I tried to compare notes with people on being thirty, but not a lot was said. Now I am forty and a whole new perspective has started to dawn on me. I have a little 'fluid intelligence" which is gradually increasing and I feel like the path of tilling the earth along the way is starting to work for me - like Jesus is happy with my attitude, sort of thing.
I'm not sure where to go from here, just that I am much happier focusing on improving my walk with the Lord, than arguing with Him that I am some sort of progression of the dust that He doesn't recognize - as the Bible says "the child will be blessed, but the sinner being a hundred will be cursed". I am a little out of touch, mentally, but its nothing that can't be slowly contextualized.
So yes, I am interested if anyone has a slew of tips to do with turning forty, or whether the idea is that you just sort of wing it, until you are with the Lord again - certainly I am not going to be disappointed with my walk with the Lord, that's all I really wanted to say. My favourite verse is still my favourite, well, I imagine it is anyway - the one I cling to most is Luke 8:18 "he that hears, to him more will be given" (correct reference?) and I think its going to be instructive as to what I remember of my forties, as much as anything else.
It's true, isn't it? The Lord is good!
So yes, I tried to compare notes with people on being thirty, but not a lot was said. Now I am forty and a whole new perspective has started to dawn on me. I have a little 'fluid intelligence" which is gradually increasing and I feel like the path of tilling the earth along the way is starting to work for me - like Jesus is happy with my attitude, sort of thing.
I'm not sure where to go from here, just that I am much happier focusing on improving my walk with the Lord, than arguing with Him that I am some sort of progression of the dust that He doesn't recognize - as the Bible says "the child will be blessed, but the sinner being a hundred will be cursed". I am a little out of touch, mentally, but its nothing that can't be slowly contextualized.
So yes, I am interested if anyone has a slew of tips to do with turning forty, or whether the idea is that you just sort of wing it, until you are with the Lord again - certainly I am not going to be disappointed with my walk with the Lord, that's all I really wanted to say. My favourite verse is still my favourite, well, I imagine it is anyway - the one I cling to most is Luke 8:18 "he that hears, to him more will be given" (correct reference?) and I think its going to be instructive as to what I remember of my forties, as much as anything else.
It's true, isn't it? The Lord is good!
