"Be Ye transformed by the renewing of your minds." You know the only true lasting transformation is the one that takes place between your ears. Many of us, including myself, do everything in our power, including our regular visits with our 'dentist', to transform ourselves into the images we see on magazine covers. We spend endless hours and minutes in mirror-walled gyms, where flexing arms and stances abound, pushing our bodies to be transformed. There is a passage in the bible where Paul speaks of how physical training is of some value but your spiritual walk is much more valuable. With each year that passes these temples, these vehicles of the soul travail to whence they came. Our eyes wither, our lines become more defined, if we have hair it grows coarse and lighter and we start to crackle and pop in the most peculiar places. But you know, I love aging! I truly enjoy the wisdom that only comes with age. You can read all the books in the library about wisdom when you are twenty, but wisdom arrives in her own sweet time. You still have to 'work out' your mind by reading good stuff and learning new ways to handle old problems, which by the way are just blessings in disguise and lessons to be learned. By a certain age, you have made enough mistakes that hopefully you have learned from them and thereby obtained a tad of wisdom. For some reason, in my forties, everything I had been told about life and instructed to do, just didn't work for me anymore. As a woman, in my twenties ignorance was bliss, in my thirties I was too busy burping babies and changing smelly diapers to even know ignorance, bliss or wisdom. But in my forties, I had a brief moment of clarity, a hunger for more and so there I went ~ down the road less traveled and finally escaped 'the moor'. No this is not a typo. 'The Moor' refers to being held down, secured by chains or cables, trapped, or deserted in a wasteland. All my life, I longed for more but always retreated to 'the moor', that safe spot. So in my forties I left 'the moor' and set out on my journey. I read so many books that now I could open a book store. I studied Buddhism, read the Tao Te Ching and a plethora of other books on the topic of spirituality. In the end, this is what I know for certain; 1. No one is going to save you, for it is up to each man to 'work out' his own salvation. 2. All roads lead to Home. & 3. Love covers a multitude of 'wrong turns'.