For the mature individual, awareness and appreciation of God's blessings are fairly easy to bring to mind. However, their profundity, intensity, richness, wisdom, fulfilling capacity, and timeless applications become overwhelming, and then there are those ever-present qualities of listing and counting.....impossible to do. Bottom line: God has filled our lives with immeasurable goodness and fulfillment, and we can only continue to make our feeble attempts at gratitude.
Then, this realization: some things come to an end, and many others change. During these periods of transitions, we find ourselves facing changes with an uncertainty about our personal value. Value in the past has been closely related to and involved in situations which have now come to an end. It becomes a temptation to deal with some frustration about that and wonder what we will do with skills no longer needed and time no longer automatically filled.
I heard an elderly and wise woman once say: "I have remade myself not once, but several times. I hope I can keep remembering that." She expressed an important formula for all of us as we move into different life stages. God helped us as we began our life and showered us with unbelievable and innumerable blessings throughout time; He has also given us the ability to deal with whatever challenges we face. Why should we ever doubt that He will continue to do that daily as we move on?
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