As we grow older it is important to be open to change, and when we reach our seventies onwards it is important to learn how to let go. It may be letting go of too many possessions, or too busy a social life. As we grow older it becomes ever more important to listen to the silence within. From a busy outgoing life we realise our task now is to cultivate our own garden, to practise silence, and just being, not having to do anything. In this way we become a still centre to which, perhaps, others are drawn and we find ourselves listening to their needs. The wisdom of old age is something that our society needs to rediscover.
How true, dear James. Thanks for the reminder that it matters! A truth that beckons and we need to go on practicing, ‘ Trusting in the slow work of God’ as Tielhard de Chardin once wrote.
With love
Diana
As always this is so beautiful – and there is such wisdom here in these words. Thank you so much.
With love
Elizabeth