Questions

According to my dear mother I am now officially old. Somehow it didn't take my 34th b day to make me feel old. I think I have felt old for a while now. At the same time I still feel like there is so much I want to do , ( before I "get old") . What does it mean to love? What is friendship really about? How do we determine what our priorities should be? What does it mean to do God's will? What is the importance of being a good parent? I mean how do we know we are doing the right things in our parenting?
I keep thinking of Sacajawea the Indian guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition. Few people have heard of her, and even fewer know anything beside the fact that she helped out on the Lewis and Clark expedition. In reality she was a teenager who was one of the wives of a French Trader. She had been kidnapped as a child by an enemy Indian tribe. The winter that the expedition camped out in North Dakota she gave birth to a young boy. She took him with her throughout the entire expediton. Imagine traveling from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean and back , over the Rocky Mts, navigating uncharted territory, boating through rivers. Throughout the harsh winters and hot summers and threats of animals, unfriendly Indian tribes, you are traveling . Your only food is provided by what you find on the trail through fishing, gathering, or hunting. Most of us could never manage this . Now imagine doing this with a newborn baby strapped to your back. And we think parenting now is difficult. Yet history records that not only did this little boy survive the trip, he later was sent to live with William Clark to receive a "proper Christian education" . Kind of makes you think.
Why is it so much harder to raise kids today when few of us ever have to worry about clothes, or food. or keeping our kids warm in the winter , and cool in the summer. Maybe the Word as always has something to say about, I believe its Matthew chapter 7 vs 7 that says, ' ask and you will receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened to you. God will provide.