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I'm Dalton, a member of the Paul Trip Ministries team.

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This week, Paul reminds us that true peace isn't found in clinging to your youth.

It's found in the unchanging presence and grace of God, who walks with us through every stage of life.

Here's this week's Wednesday's Word.

It was a warm, sunny afternoon, and I was walking through the center of downtown, as I often do.

A beautifully refurbished, classic muscle car pulled up to the red light, with music blasting and its convertible top down.

In the driver's seat sat an older man, probably in his late 50s or early 60s, with slick-backed white hair and wearing expensive designer sunglasses.

The light turned green, and he revved his engine ridiculously loud and roared off down the street.

Almost simultaneously, multiple strangers standing on the sidewalk next to me all turned to one

another and said the same thing.

Well, he's going through a midlife crisis.

What even is a midlife crisis?

And what age defines midlife? If the average life expectancy for

an adult is now between 75 and 80 years old, that means 35 to 40 year olds are in this demographic.

Yet we typically think of older men, like that driver, as the ones who most commonly experience a

midlife crisis. Rather than debating the age at which someone

might experience a midlife crisis, I want to examine some common traits that any of us may

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