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How to deal with aging anxiety?
Aging Well | Last Active: Jan 20 11:13am | Replies (94)Comment receiving replies
Sorry about the loss of your husband. We have lost friends to Covid, both of my sisters to Alzheimer’s in the last couple of years, a close friend with pancreatic cancer now, a brother-in-law with lewy body dementia, it’s all hitting at once for people my age and some days it’s just too much. Trying to keep God present.
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@grahmilou
I just received your very kind reply. I'm so sorry you have lost so many friends and family members all so close together! I'm sure that's extremely hard for you. However, remember that they are all up in Heaven with God and Jesus and all the angels and are with their loved ones who died before them. You will be reunited with them eventually in God's time as I will be reunited with my husband and my friend also. It's just hard for us to be without them; especially in this world that is not as good as it used to be. Now what we have to do is just have faith and pray to God for help and we'll get it. When you are worrying about whatever just ask God to help you to stop worrying and he will. When I was young and would be worrying about things not working out right, I'd ask my Mom, "What are we going to do?" She'd always say, "We are just going to sit right here and pray!" And we did and our prayers would be answered. She also often quoted a part from the Bible, "Take no thought for the morrow. The evil is sufficient unto the day thereof." Then, Mom would always say, "We'll let God handle tomorrow." Many times when I was growing up we often had very little food in the house and no money to buy more because my Father spent a lot of money in the bars. Mom would always inisist that we pray and food or money would always come from somewhere to meet our needs.
I'm so glad you are a Christian! God will be there for you. Just ask for his help. I'll say a prayer for you also.
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@grahmilou God...IS...present. He lives here, on this forum. Or in your home...and surely in mine. He is in our children, in the stars, in the physicians who tend to you, and in the many nurses. We may not be granted the ending we've been hoping for (in our sleep or at winning the lottery), but we get to be intimately acquainted at the time of our passing.
There's a lovely short hymn that I sing out loud into the night air at 0100 each morning in my pre-bed hot tub, beside our back deck: (i sing in the bass section of our choral society, so I can sing it twice, in melody an the bass part)