Chapter 3: Please Bless Me

O Lord….. I’m looking at the mirror. What I see makes me startled with fear and anxiety. I’m no longer a young girl with a beautiful and fresh face. What I see is a face of a middle aged woman, the age which Thai people term beautifully as “golden age” to lessen the impact of its real meaning. Pretty soon my face and body will have more wrinkles. The situation will get worse as this is the law of nature. Nobody wants to get old, but this is the fact of life.

O Lord….. I don’t know how much time I have left on this world. I only know that I’ve not served You at all. Please give me opportunities to serve You on earth before I go to do so in heaven.

In the meantime please bless me with beauty of my mind and spirit. Please don’t let my spirit get senile along with my body, but please fill my heart with Your love, kindness, and gentleness. Though my body has to wilt as time goes by, please let what stays be the beauty of my heart that increases with my age. Let me be not afraid of getting old. On the contrary with each step of my life please let me move forward with a strong faith in my heart and an unwavering determination to serve You in everything I do. Let me be a woman who is beautiful and worthy to be a child of Yours.

"Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her the reward she has earned…..” Proverbs 31:30-31

Amen

A Child of God