Aging and Renewing

2 Corinthian 4:16-18

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. ¹⁸ So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

I'll admit it, when I look in the mirror, I see my outside shell getting old and I don't like it.  This picutre above speaks to the true reality.  Inwardly I am renewed day by day.  God has given me spiritual dreams since I was a child.  They are dreams of comfort, usually about the death of someone in my family.  After my mother died, I had a lot of sad dreams, but I also had some dreams from God.  In one dream, I was outside in a park and saw this little girl with long brown curly hair skipping and laughing.  I looked at her, and somehow knew it was my mom.  I said "Mom?" She giggled and just said "Yes" and continued to frolick in the park.  I knew in my dream this was her in heaven.  She wasn't old, or sick, but young and carefree in heaven.  I hold on to this when I see my reflection in the mirror, knowing each day I am a day closer to being in heaven, skipping and playing with my mom.