Discount...

When I stopped at the grocery store the other day and looked at my receipt, low and behold I got a discount for my wisdom. Who knew!!! I think it was the stores way of saying, " senior citizen" discount, only in a more creative way. Often I am not even asked because of my gray hair, just assumed, as I was this day. So I will take my 3.11 discount for all my years of gathered wisdom and say ~ thank you!

Phoenix...

With wisdom comes "knowing." 

I always tell my kids when they seem astonished when I share something or know the probable out come of a situation, "that's why they call it wisdom." It's meant to be shared and passed down. It's a perk of growing older." But I can draw on it too. When my heart feels like it can't hurt anymore or any worse, I "KNOW" that there light at the end of the tunnel. That there is a rainbow behind the clouds and I will be okay ~ no matter what. Like the phoenix rising up from the ashes http://aflourishinglife.com/2011/01/coping-with-challenging-life-circumstances/ ~

I will prevail and in doing so, so will my children.

Magic Wand...

As I've gotten older, my mother often says to me..."I wish I had a magic wand to make it all better." And as much as a part of me wished that were true, the other part of me knows that I will be okay and have been. But having said that, as my children are growing up, my heart hurts because "I" don't have that magic wand that would make their life right now just like they would like it. But my wisdom knows that there is a better place for us and it's hard for them to see it when you've not had the years of wisdom to "just know" that.