The Mellow Glow

By Steve Taylor

Why fight against the fading glow of youth?
Why try to freeze a process that can’t be stopped?
You're clinging too hard, that’s why you're weary;
your face is lined with tension, not with age.

And even if your form has altered a little
even if the surface is a little worn and chafed, your being is rich and deep, nourished by experience and understanding; and another kind of light is shining from you now – a full, mellow glow, like autumn sunshine, that spreads further and touches deeper than the flashing, dazzling glow of youth.

Why not let that glow shine through
instead of trying to rekindle a faded light?

Change brings decay if you resist it.
But if you accept it and flow with it,
it brings growth and renewal.

– Steve Taylor
From The Calm Center: Reflections and
Meditations for Spiritual Awakening
New World Library, 2015
p. 39

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Turning 60
• Remembering Lauren Bacall and Her Thoughts on Aging
• What the Wind Says
• Secret Language of the Heart
• Kahlil Gibran on Self-Knowledge
• My Love, “Return to the Root of the Root of Your Own Soul”
• A Light That Will Always Shine
• A Sacred Pause
• Aligning With the Living Light
• Mystical Participation
• Shining On
• A Guidepost on the Journey
• Turning 50