5 thoughts on “With Age Comes Wisdom and Experience”

1. I think we grow and mature as people throughout our entire lives. In our younger years it is natural for us to be more self centered, as we try to find our place in the world. As we mature, we start to realize what we owe to others, those who helped us get where we are now. What bugs me is why my generation can’t just grow up, they are “adulting” now, the world implying being an adult is merely a game, you’re just pretending and can take off the costume afterwards like a little girl pretending to be a princess! I mean, come on! Just grow up like every other generation did! The most respected people I know and grew up around were all middle aged adults. I think that’s why I learned to respect wisdom from age, because I wasn’t around peers who continually shunned old age and derided it. Sad how our society derides and belittles aging and the wisdom that comes with it! Infuriating how condescending people can be of the elderly, treating people decades their senior like little children again when they have twice your life experience and wisdom!

2. This is right on time for me, thank you! ❤

3. Beautiful Post Lori and so true! Every bit of it! I’m 55 and am not making an effort to be that Titus 2 older woman yet. I still have a ways to go and I know it. I help and teach my own kids, and help with the grandchildren at this point. Iron sharpens iron so I do help younger women with advice and know how when needed. I will wait however another 5 yrs or so to have more of a Titus 2 type ministry Lord willing. Very good advice about the computer and other devices. Spending too much time on-line can break your household and send the children to be left to themselves, bringing shame to their parents. God bless you Lori for speaking truth everyday. ~Diane

4. Thoughts from an aged woman: wisdom comes with age through life experiences – be open to the leading of the Lord. Being a Titus 2 woman isn’t something we set out to do it is who we are, it’s using opportunities as they come to encourage younger women, it is using our own experiences to guide and encourage others, to support them and offer guidance. It is being at least 10 years older that the other woman in a Bible study and sharing my own experiences raising teenagers (who at that point were adults with children of their own). It is using opportunities as God brings your way and being amazed how God used your experiences to encourage others.

   From personal experience it was mentoring a younger woman with several children who needed some support. It meant admitting that I didn’t know all of the answers but being willing to learn and grow together. It meant being amazed once again at God faithfulness and being grateful for the opportunities He gives us to learn and grow as we walk with Him.

   Being a Titus 2 woman is not a formula it is being available and heeding Gods leading as He bring others across our path.

5. This is a little off topic but relevant. My husband and I visited a dear friend who lives at a Christian retirement home. This place was first of all, amazing because they had such love and care for the elderly. It wasn’t a nursing home atmosphere. Their motto was: don’t think of this as your final resting place, but come here to live. They were definitely giving these aging people a new lease on life. They have a chapel on campus, and we were just blown away by these elderly individuals’ genuine love for the Lord. The old hymns were sung with gusto, and the men’s prayers were lifted up from hearts that were in close communion with the Saviour. The message was fillled with the meat of the Word. The ladies were all dressed with gentle dignity. There was not one woman without a headcovering. They were reverent and silently worshipping the Lord. You could just tell that these people had a life long, faithful, committed walk with Jesus. Respect for God’s holiness was very much evident. We came away energized in the Lord, but also somewhat saddened. These people are so very much needed in our local gatherings. The elements of faithfulness, holiness,commitment and decorum are missing from churches today. We treat the aging with such disregard and disrespect. Yes, I do very much agree that our aged need to teach, but the young need to be taught to respect the aged. How else will they be willing to learn from them if they are not first taught that the aged are worth listening to? ( With Christian love and Thanksgiving for all of our aging Christians who teach and for those who willingly listen)

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