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GETTING OLDER IS THE BEST THING that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better.
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I awaken to a morning prayer of thanks posted on my bathroom wall from Marianne Williamson's book Illuminata. I think about all those who didn't make it to 51 and were claimed to a different calling before they realized the beauty and wonder and majesty of life on earth. Or--in some ways worse--those who reach this age without an appreciation for the value of each breath.
I know for sure that every day holds within it the gift of seeing the world through the Creator's eyes. Some days the challenges of daily existence weigh on our ability to see it, but today I could. Watching the Maui sun rising, turning the sky the color of newly ripened peaches, I knew that I was connected to a power greater than ...