Count It All Joy... James1:2

”Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape . “ Anonymous I am quite sure this is one of the lost beatitudes. If not, it should be! I have finally😁 reached middle aged and have found that when I get up in the morning my muscles and bones groan at me. I don’t know about you, but I’m sure I’ve heard my body say “what were you thinking!”, after a hard day at work unloading a truck.  We know that the less we move the more our bodies lose mobility and the closer we are to being O L D! Shiver! So we keep moving to keep our muscles flexible and our bones moving. So what about our attitude and spiritual flexibility?  Hmmmm. How often does someone we know (sometimes the person in the mirror that we know intimately) get  totally bent out of shape by a relatively small event?  Instead of flexing to meet the situation or flexing around someone else’s attitude, we add a big helping of our own attitude. Our spirituality starts cracking and WE break ...

During a recent trip to our local Christian bookstore I found books on all the stages of "womanhood".   1 Growing up 2 Dating 3 Finding true love 4 Getting married 5 Raising your children 6 Growing old with your spouse   With a couple of extra stages for the difficult times.  7 Back on the market 8 Dealing with loss It struck me as a single woman (from birth I might add) that there weren't many books about single and loving it. Or it's okay to be single for life. Not that we need that affirmation. But... It appears by the book titles that we (unclaimed treasures) are missing out on something somewhere in our lives. We've been left behind somehow.  While traveling with my family, we were preaching at a church in Arkansas. One young girl was upset because she was still unmarried at the "old and advanced" age of 16!  If you weren't married by 16 you were considered an old maid. To my chagrin, I was 19 or 20 at the time...