"Love is for the young, the beautiful, the vibrant. My season of being loved has passed."
How it sounds in your head: You had your chance when you were young and pretty and full of energy. That season is over. Now you're just... here. Love was for then, not for now.
"Even to your old age, I am He, and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you."
-- Isaiah 46:4Cultural lie that love is seasonal and tied to youth, not eternal and tied to identity.
Culture worships youth and dismisses older women. Romantic love feels like a young person's game. You feel invisible in a world that celebrates the new.
Ruth was a widowed, foreign woman past her prime in a culture that valued youth. She went to Boaz, proposed to him, and he called her a 'virtuous woman.' She married him immediately and bore Obed, grandfather of David. Love at any age.
I REFUSE the lie that love has a season and mine is past. IT IS WRITTEN that even to gray hairs He will CARRY me—this IS my season of love. God's affection increases, not decreases. IT IS WRITTEN in Proverbs 31:25 that I can laugh at the days to come—my future is FULL of love, not emptied by age. The BARAK blessing covers EVERY season—I am blessed coming in and going out, now and forever. I receive lavish love NOW.
Your Father isn't nostalgic for your youth. He's excited about your NOW. Ruth found Boaz AFTER widowhood. Sarah had Isaac at 90. Anna met Jesus at 84. Your best love story might be just beginning.