In this episode:
I’d rather laugh about what I can’t change instead of grumbling about it. I'll aim to embrace hard times as an opportunity for God's power to shine, even if that isn't my first reaction. This week I talk about one man in the Bible who understood God's ability to repurpose circumstances in a mind-blowing way.
(Article contains affililate links. This means that when you click a link and make a purchase, I might receive a small comission from that purchase.) Inspired Life Did you catch my interview with Jill Savage last week about discovering full life even after having an empty nest? That was episode 38. In episode 37 I also talked about gray hairs and chin fizz. I don't know what it is with those chin hairs, but I suspect my face crème has a formula similar to Rogaine. I can imagine a scientist—a man—creating just the right blend that would cause vain women like me who believe they need anti-wrinkle crème, to begin sprouting full beards. Seriously! I’m recording this during a statewide shelter at home order because of a pandemic, so I can’t make use of the car visor to check my chin hairs. I’m going to have to use the light on my cell phone so that I don’t come out of quarantine looking like the bearded lady. In this series I have talked about looking at aging with a different perspective and looking for the jewels. There are other advantages to being more mature.
For instance, sales clerks and auto technicians call me “ma’am” instead of “miss.” That has a certain ring of respect. I’m allowed to bring my bifocals out in public now. Ma'ams wear bifocals, don't they? I discovered in my 40s that I could wear my blueberry-colored velour jogging suit and nobody expected me to actually jog. Mostly, it was my Sunday afternoon napping outfit, but once I had to pick them up from school and figured that I’d be in the van and no one could see me. I talk about that in the podcast episode.
With aging and other life challenges, I’ve discovered that my perspective has everything to do with getting through it. I have plenty of down days. But when I can laugh and find the unseen benefits in a situation, those are the days when I’m happy despite circumstances outside of my ability to control.
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Life, Repurposed I want to briefly tell you about one man in the Bible who understood God's ability to repurpose circumstances better than I'll ever comprehend. Joseph was a young man whom his father loved. In fact, he was his father's favorite. This made his brothers jealous, and they wanted to kill him. They threw him into a pit while planning their evil, and then concocted an idea to sell him as a slave so they wouldn't have murder on their consciences. They covered up their evil by telling their father that Joseph was killed by a wild animal,