Hold onto your hat - You're in for a treat!!! (Oh! You don't have a hat? Please go get one - you are going to need it!)
Have you ever heard of the Red Hat Club? Well, it is a group of ladies whose are in the age range above 50 years old. And, they wear Red hats with purple outfits and it is based on a poem called "When I Am an Old woman." It is written by Jenny Joseph and Elizabeth Lucas. (Is 50 really old? Not in our club!!!)
Here are a couple of lines from the poem:
"I shall wear purple with a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me....I will sit down on the pavement when I'm tired and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells and run my stick along the public railings...I shall go out in my slippers in the rain and pick flowers in other people's gardens and learn to spit."
Basically, the poem is advocating that as we grow older we can do what we want and not care what other people think about us! (Ha! Ha!) Irreverent you say? Not a bit!!! It is called FUN!!!
Well, a NEW club is in town now!!! We call it the "MRI club." It is a group of ladies from my church who happen to sit in the back row at church every Sunday and then go out to lunch together. We have a ball together!!! We laugh and giggle, discuss the sermon from the morning and generally enjoy each other's company. The funny part about it is the age range: 93, 85, 84, 82, 68 and two 67 year olds!
The ODD part about it (or, the funny part) is that the 3 younger ladies of the Back Row Church Ladies, all have had to have MRI's lately for various health issues and now are having surgery for those ailments!
What in the world? The older ladies of the group are "healthy as a horse" as the saying goes!!! The younger ones are falling apart at the seams..........LOL
Then, to top those ages, we have 2 other friends who do not go to the same church, but are part of our MRI Club and adventures. They are are ages 58 and 51 who are also having surgery!!! Go figure!!!
But, the most beautiful part about our MRI club is the commradre. We would do anything for each other!!! We pray for each other, give each other rides (after surgery), ocassionally play cards together, have brunches at our homes for each other, celebrate birthdays at restaurants ( and yes, we bring our own cake!), go to movies, and go on adventures to places like the Carousel Museum in Leavenworth and Weston, MO. You name it - we have a BLAST!!!
What a blessing this group is! We not only have fun, but we help carry one another's burdens, pray for our health and families, and spur one another on to a deeper faith! God has truly blessed us with these special relationships and friendships.
I encourage you to gather a couple of special ladies around you and do the same! We only live once and why not live it with special people who make you smile???
Watch out: The MRI clubs rides again and more adventures are sure to come!!!!
