Prayables | Secrets to a Meaningful Life

Published: Mon, 03/14/22

Monday March 14, 2022

The most important work you ever do will be within the walls of your own home.
Harold B. Lee

Forget the deal-making and promise-breaking. Prayer is not a negotiation. Be still and create a holy moment with God. Rest assured, God will bless you with answers to your unspoken prayers.

Bless us with Love, Merciful God, that we may Love as You Love. That we may show patience, tolerance, kindness, caring, and love to each
other.

Psalm 27:6 I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord!

THE SECOND HALF

What are the secrets to a meaningful life? Women over 50 share their insights.

A book review by Maria Leonard Olsen

I revel in opportunities to question older people about what they have learned. My family used to beg me not to talk to random strangers, but my endless curiosity yielded fodder in my professional life and guidance in my personal endeavors.

Reading Ellen Warner’s “The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty” is like having one of those intimate conversations with each of 40 women from around the world as they share their formative experiences and advice for younger generations.

Their insights are particularly valuable in a country where intergenerational learning is often lost, where finding assisted-living housing for our senior family members is more common than moving them into our homes.

Concentration camp survivor Odette Walling advises the younger among us to accept the march of time. “Nothing is more annoying than women who want to play twenty years old when they are aging,” she says.

Marilynn Preston, an Emmy Award-winning TV producer and journalist, echoes that sentiment of acceptance: “True freedom is the internal acquiescence to the unfolding of life.”

Jean Angell, a Harvard-educated lawyer with a debilitating illness, explains that she can no longer eat or speak but refuses to give up on life and believes that the struggle brings its own...read more

PRAY APPRECIATED TO HEAL MY BOYS

The Oldest, of his addiction to pain Killers, to be free of it, to learn self worth, and how special he truly is. That this doesn’t affect his health long-term.

The 2nd, of this heartbreaking eye disease called Stargartz, that a cure be found much much sooner than later, that his sight doesn’t get worse, and can maintain until help is found. That he can live a life with his eye sight and nothing else comes his way of bad health.

The 3rd, that his Spine is healed fully after his Scoliosis Surgery correcting all of the large curve in his Spine, for fast healing, little pain and regain a normal child lifestyle and Nothing else ever comes his way in bad health.

As their Mother, I’m angry, I want them fixed, I want to stop worrying, stop the anxiety, I too pray so much, I want my boys well.

-Tonya