Surviving My 60’s-Thriving My 70’s: Bee Bee’s Journey

05/15/2026

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05/15/2026

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05/01/2026

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So many people I once knew never reached the age I have reached today. Lord, thank You for giving me a life so long, so full, and so richly blessed.

Familiar voices that used to fill the world around us are no longer heard here. So many people once shared our days, laughed with us, labored beside us, prayed through burdens, carried hopes, and faced their own private battles. Their earthly journey ended before ours did. When that truth settles deeply in the heart, gratitude becomes something holy. It becomes praise.

No one earns the gift of many years. A long life is mercy. It is grace given one breath at a time, one sunrise at a time, one season at a time, from the hand of the Lord who has carried us through valleys we never could have crossed by our own strength. The soul that has been sustained by God understands the words of Psalm 86:12–13: “I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever. For great is your love toward me.”

To grow older is to gather both joy and grief into the same heart. It means remembering blessings that made life sweet and sorrows that left permanent marks. It means watching some hopes come alive and others fall away. It means knowing days of strength and days when weakness humbles the body and spirit. Through it all, we learn that life has never been held together by our power, but by the faithful kindness of God. His promise still stands: “Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you… I will sustain you and I will rescue you” (Isaiah 46:4).

That promise teaches us that the blessing of age is not only found in the number of birthdays we have seen. It is found in what the Lord has formed within us through those years. He does not preserve life merely so time can accumulate behind us. He preserves us so the heart can become softer, faith can grow deeper, pride can bow lower, and love can become wiser. Each passing year can become another place where heaven has worked quietly within the soul.

There is something sacred about thanking God not only for length of life, but for the blessings woven through it. Some blessings arrived with joy. Others came through hardship. Some were hidden inside trials that taught endurance. Some were found in losses that loosened our grip on earthly things and lifted our eyes toward eternity. Others were simple mercies repeated so faithfully that we almost forgot to marvel at them: food on the table, doors opened at the right time, unseen protection, dear friends, children, grandchildren, peaceful evenings, answered prayers, and enough strength to rise and continue one more day. Truly, “The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy” (Psalm 126:3).

A thankful heart knows that survival is not the deepest miracle. The deeper miracle is being kept by God. To be kept by Him means more than remaining in this world. It means being guided, guarded, corrected, comforted, and prepared for the life that never ends. The passing years remind us that earthly life is fragile, but they also remind us that heaven is nearer than it once was.

So when you remember those who did not live to reach your age, let the memory make your heart more tender and your gratitude more sincere. Let it make you patient with the people still beside you. Let it teach you to speak with more kindness, forgive more freely, love more deeply, and spend the time that remains in faith instead of fear, in peace instead of bitterness, and in humble thanksgiving before the Lord.

Jesus, thank You for every year You have given me. Thank You for holding my life in Your hands when so many others completed their journey sooner. Thank You for every mercy, every protection, every lesson, every answered prayer, and every joy You placed along the road behind me. Keep my heart grateful and my eyes lifted toward heaven. Help me live the rest of my days with love, faithfulness, humility, and honor before You. Amen.

05/01/2026

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04/17/2026

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Learn from the wise words and tender heart of Joni Eareckson Tada.

03/29/2026

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Saturn and Pluto meet today for the first time since January 2020, and if that year left a mark on you, this one's going to feel significant.

What happened in 2020 wasn't random. Those two planets came together and basically asked everything in your life to prove it was real — your relationships, your work, the way you were living, the stories you were telling yourself. What couldn't hold up, didn't.

Then came six years of figuring out who you are when the thing you built your identity around is gone. Of learning what you actually want, not what you thought you were supposed to want. Of building something new without knowing if it would work.

Today isn't a reward exactly. It's more like clarity. The cycle that started in 2020 is closing. You're not the same person who entered it — and that was always the point. 🖤

03/29/2026

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Saturn and Pluto meet today for the first time since January 2020, and if that year left a mark on you, this one's going to feel significant.

What happened in 2020 wasn't random. Those two planets came together and basically asked everything in your life to prove it was real — your relationships, your work, the way you were living, the stories you were telling yourself. What couldn't hold up, didn't.

Then came six years of figuring out who you are when the thing you built your identity around is gone. Of learning what you actually want, not what you thought you were supposed to want. Of building something new without knowing if it would work.

Today isn't a reward exactly. It's more like clarity. The cycle that started in 2020 is closing. You're not the same person who entered it — and that was always the point. 🖤

03/03/2026

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02/28/2026

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Happy Almost March!💚☘️💚

Yesterday I had a CT myelogram, and several people have asked what that actually means. It’s a specialized spinal test where contrast dye is placed into the spinal fluid in the muscle and lower back so detailed CT images can clearly show the spinal cord and nerves. It helps doctors determine if narrowing or disc issues are pressing on the cord — especially when balance changes, weakness, numbness, or bladder concerns need a closer look.

Walking back into the same hospital where I had surgery in 2020 stirred memories I didn’t expect. That season was hard. Isolating. Uncertain.

But this time was different.

This time I walked in prepared. I wasn’t alone. My husband was beside me. And God was already ahead of me.
Family and friends armed me with their prayers, and that carried me through.

There is something powerful about returning to a place that once held fear — and walking back out in peace.

Now I rest, hydrate, and wait for results. I trust that clarity leads to wise next steps, and I trust the One who goes before me.

Isaiah 41:10 — “Fear not, for I am with you…”

Grateful for faith. Grateful for support. Grateful for another step forward.

02/24/2026

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Heavenly Father, I am tired of carrying pain like it is a secret I have to protect. I have held it in for so long that it feels almost normal now. The old wounds. The new disappointments. The quiet heartbreaks I do not know how to explain.

I have smiled through conversations. I have said “I’m okay” without thinking. I have learned how to function while something inside me is still hurting.

But You see it all.
You see the heaviness that settles in when the house grows quiet. You see the thoughts that return when I finally slow down. You see the memories that sting and the words that echo longer than they should. You see the shame I try to outrun, the grief I try to minimize, the fear I try to hide behind strength.

Tonight, I do not want to hide anymore.

Teach me how to lay this pain down without reaching for it again tomorrow. Teach me how to release it without feeling like I am losing part of myself. I do not want to pretend it never happened. I just do not want it to control me anymore.

Lord Jesus, meet me here in this quiet.
Where there has been shame, pour out mercy.
Where there has been heaviness, breathe in peace.
Where there has been anger, soften me with gentleness.
Where there has been confusion, anchor me in truth.
Where there has been fear, wrap me in Your steady love.

I lay down the pain I have been comparing to others.
I lay down the pain I have been calling “not a big deal.”
I lay down the pain I have replayed, trying to rewrite the ending.
I lay down the pain I thought I had to carry alone.
Your hands are safe. Your heart is kind.

When morning comes, help me not to pick it back up again. When my mind drifts back to the same hurt, gently redirect me. When the ache resurfaces, remind me healing is a process, not a failure. Teach me to surrender it in small ways throughout the day, one breath at a time.

Cover this home tonight with Your presence. Quiet every anxious thought. Guard my rest. Heal the places I cannot even put into words. And if tears fall, let them cleanse, not crush. Let them water the ground where new strength will grow.

Thank You for staying with me in the quiet. Thank You for listening when I can only whisper. Thank You for loving me patiently, even while I am still healing.
I trust You with my pain.

And I trust You with what You are making out of it.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.