We all know the destruction of a long term marriage carries grief like nothing else does. We know also that a twenty-five year investment, that gets no return, is devastating. Sure. Worse yet, dragging a fifty-one year old body back onto the dating scene can be frightening. Of course!
But, strutting your fifty-one year old wiser sophisticated self into a world of networking, socializing, and even ministering to others, can be exciting, fulfilling, and just what your Creator ordered in the first place. Yes!
- The end of a long term marriage never means that life is over...
- It never means that you'll never have enough again...
- It never means that you'll never love again...
- It never means that you won't learn to stand on YOUR own two feet, or
- That you'll never feel the infusion of life you once enjoyed with a husband and children. It's time for your own infusion of living.
Self-love and healing can overtake you like it never could before. Delight yourself in it!
Mistakes will become lessons to treasure and notes to use while teaching the younger others coming behind you. Your life is now sketched out for all to read and follow or jeer at and run away from. So what!
Don't shun fun. There is much more life to live; enjoy the second-chance that gray divorce can be and turn your eyes toward what you were not free to see before, as a married woman. You're not too old. You're seasoned. You're better than ever, so DON'T lie in sorrow for too long. Instead celebrate that you didn't die in the squat. Rise up and celebrate your resurrection!
Gray divorce has turned many women into importunist... you know, those woman who have to call for help ALL THE TIME for everything; they need to plead their case to everyone. It's demoralizing and you do not have to go that way!
Nhat Crawford, author
Single For The First Time
Published by WestBow Press, 2014
nhatcrawford@gmail.com
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