Over the Hill
“You’re not over the hill yet, but my mom just went over the hill.” Those words came from an elementary-age girl whose mother had just celebrated her 35th birthday. The mother laughed. She remembered thinking the same thing about her mother at that age.
Young people often believe middle-age and older adults are over the hill.
They think they have reached their peak in life. In their opinion, anyone 35 or older:
- Is out of touch with the latest fads, language, and styles
- Stops having fun
- Sets no more worthwhile goals
- Loses their spirit of adventure
Wrong! The fun just begins, if we relax and enjoy the journey.
- The need to impress, to fit in with the cool crowd, and to prove ourselves diminishes.
- We learn to enjoy the moment for what it is, not what we wish.
- That freedom exhilarates, and the future looks promising.
As Robert Browning said:
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in His hand
Who saith ‘A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!’”
“I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live” (Psalm 104:33 NIV).
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