As we experience life with our losses and life changes that take place with advancing years, some of us begin to gravitate towards or for some of is back to religion, although the traditional church may not always be as accommodating as we hoped.

If you’re like me born in the church, graduated from catholic elementary school, OK an altar boy, to through some roundabout way to graduate from a Lutheran college, it can be more of a rediscovery.

Some of us may be more influenced by the thinking of various philosophers and thinkers that deal with the different practices of spirituality to find meaning in life.

With advancing age, there are life changes as well as life losses both mental and physical, that require us having hope in order to survive. Oddly, that’s when we begin to realize what spirituality did and can do for us who believe.

For those of us who believe; Spirituality can be therapeutic. Spirituality can take the form of therapeutic interventions found in prayers, meditation and expressions of art, attending religious services and reading the bible.

All of which can lead to spiritual awareness and healing as well as renewal. With better understanding of spirituality through various resources, there may come about a more peaceful aging process.

With those of us that face the reality of our age, we learn we can’t do want we once did. I’m never playing a game of hoops again. I knew I had to give up football, than basketball than softball. Now I would be happy to just walk pain-free.

But the biggest non-physical, pain of all is that I’m not where I thought I should be by now.

Aging also raises questions about the true meaning and value of day-to-day life. Questions of what’s really important.

This is when our spirituality can expand and help us share our feelings with others. It hopefully allows us some space in which to grow, even in times of difficulty.

But Let Me state; Spirituality is unique to each of us!

Just as our bodies’ age differently, spirituality is different for each of us too. Some of us have been attending the same church or synagogue our entire lives and have their spiritual beliefs well reconciled.

Some of us have been searching for spirituality our entire lives, while others of us only begin in later life in order to help us deal with calamity, aging, or a death. Then we begin to search for the answers we need.

Many of us argue over what spirituality is; I like the thought of real spirituality actually being aware we are spirit.

Thanks,
Pablo

Passion

If you’re like me, feeling like you are already too old, because we’re on the downhill side of some, health, weight, age, insurance chart or table, so you’ve given up pursuing the path on finding your passion,

STOP that thought! We’re neither too old nor too young to do what we want to do, or to go where we really want to go.

If you surrender to defeat, you will never know what could have happened, if only you had allowed yourself to take risks in order to attain what you heart really wants for you.

As we go through life, there are many phases that we have to conquer before we can proclaim success over various paths.

When we were young, we thought we had to succeed no matter what. This was the ideal mindset. Even if we really didn’t know what success was, but we knew we had to have it. Which may have been the reason why we haven’t really focused on realizing what our real passion is. But life gets more complicated as we age, a reason why we tend to forget what we really wanted to achieve in the first place.

Going down the path of success, some of us chose to set aside our inner beliefs and give in to the opportunities that were being presented to us at the moment. We grabbed on to these opportunities be it a scholarship, a job, a relationship? Thinking heck, it can’t be as hard as they say look at this opportunity?

Lesson learned, if it’s to good to be true, it’s too good to be true. In my opinion.

Next lesson learned, nothing replaces hard work! In my opinion.

Hardest lessons learned, thinking life will be complete after we’ve earned good money, gotten married, have a home and family, and saved up a lot. Then we’ll pursue our passion and go back to what it is we really want to do. Problem; all that takes a lot of you.

A lot of us never get a chance to look back, feel comfortable and settled in our environment. Life being as volatile as it is, we fear that, if we let go to pursue something where success is unknown, we will lose it all.

So we settle into comfortable. in our situation, even though we feel we’re trapped. Once we’re too comfortable, we’re likely be afraid to come out of it. Even if we’re doing something that we don’t really like and we feel like life is dragging us down.

We will allow ourselves to be a prisoner of our comfort. So we have to take a risk before we get stuck into such state. We need to go back to the point when we promised ourselves that you will get back your passion. That promise is important because we owe it to ourselves to make this happen.

Finding your passion is not about your age. It’s about setting your heart and mind to it to be able to pursue the path. You can’t find your passion if you don’t walk the path.

Passion