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I thoroughly enjoyed watching Dolly Parton\u2019s 50th Anniversary celebration as a member of the Grand Old Opry. She is beautiful \u2013 inside and out \u2013 at age 73! What? She\u2019s older than me. How can that be with no wrinkles, a tiny little body and wearing 5\u201d heels? Okay \u2013 we know that beauty is helped along with this and that, but she sure makes 70s look mighty good. The show took us back to her childhood, the 4th child of 12, low income family who loved singing. She was undaunted in her certainty that she would one day be a star. She shared about her marriage of 53 years and her husband who has always preferred to be out of the limelight and has seen only one of her shows. They are \u201clifers\u201d together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My biggest smile came when she said: \u201cA man asked if I\u2019d mind if he told me a dumb blonde joke. I told him \u201cI don\u2019t mind. I\u2019m not dumb and I\u2019m not blonde!\u201d I completely relate to that response. I\u2019m not dumb and I\u2019m not blonde either, but since I\u2019ve owned the color that my hairdresser only knows for sure for more than forty years now, I\u2019m sticking to it. I smiled even bigger when Dolly talked about her relationship with Jesus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My daughter turns 50 on December 8th! It\u2019s hard to disguise MY age when she touts hers. She is absolutely thrilled for this jubilee year and she firmly believes her next 50 will be off-the-charts with even more accomplishments for God. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s plenty of help to pretend we\u2019re not really getting older.– from hair color, tummy tucks, dressing younger, thinking thin. When it comes to getting older, our culture offers three options: delay, disguise, or despise. Rather than those options, why don\u2019t we EMBRACE this wonderful life we have and that we\u2019re still here to live it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

St. Paul tells Titus that the older women are \u201cto teach what is good, and so train the young women” (Titus 2:3\u20135). I love this passage, wanting to be mentored by older women when I was younger, and now embracing being the mentor to those younger. If this kind of discipleship is going to happen, we older women must be willing to acknowledge that we are older and wiser. So, ladies and men (it’s for you too) it’s time to step it up and be willing to encourage, support, applaud and cheer on those younger than us. We are on assignment. We’re still here. We’re not done being used by God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we belong to Jesus, our \u201cinner self is being renewed day by day\u201d (2 Corinthians 4:16). Let\u2019s be proud older women and men who teach the younger in our lives to look beyond what is seen and temporary, to what is truly beautiful and eternal. Living a life of devotion to God and drinking at His Springs of Living Water (His Word) is a sure remedy for the “blues” about getting older. It guarantees living and loving life on purpose. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thoroughly enjoyed watching Dolly Parton\u2019s 50th Anniversary celebration as a member of the Grand Old Opry. She is beautiful \u2013 inside and out \u2013 at age 73! What? She\u2019s older than me. How can that be with no wrinkles, a tiny little body and wearing 5\u201d heels? Okay \u2013 we know that beauty is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15769,15770,15768],"tags":[15780,7875,15772,12051,1210,15773,15778,15775,15771,15779,15774,15781,14108,15777,15776],"class_list":["post-11511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dolly-parton","category-encourager","category-older-teaches-younger","tag-2-corinthians-416","tag-50th-anniversary","tag-70s","tag-beautiful","tag-blog","tag-dolly-parton","tag-dress-younger","tag-dumb-blonde-jokes","tag-grand-old-opry","tag-hair-color","tag-hairdresser","tag-jubilee-year","tag-mypeacezone-com","tag-older-teach-younger","tag-tummy-tucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11515,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11511\/revisions\/11515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}