Retirement brings challenges, joys and outright surprises. This is my opportunity to share with you lessons I am learning as I navigate the days and weeks of retirement.
(Editor’s note: Chill out, grammar police. The word is spelled that way on purpose.) Retirement. That word conjures different images depending on one’s circumstances. Shawn joined me in this classification of American citizenship last May, and for the uninitiated, that means that we are now together 24x7x365. For real. My life and hers, entwined the…
Adjusting expectations can be a hard assignment. As we age most of us have navigated that route to some extent. Physical abilities we once took for granted now limit our activities. In Psalm 90 Moses recorded the average length of the human life as 70 to 80 years, and he reminded us of God’s eternality….
I cut the cord long before it became a bragging point for today’s hip crowd. I’ve been a customer of cable television in the past and once had an Internet-based TV provider for a six month trial. Did the benefit justify the expense? I felt that since I had paid for the service I needed…
No one wants to fumble his retirement purpose. One surprising aspect of retirement is that life and career experience seem to lose value after the big exit. Where we once contributed to multi-million dollar projects or provided wise life council to others retired folks may find ourselves wondering what happened as the crickets creak around…
An approach to life which does not identify personal ambitions or which focuses on wrong ambitions can lead to missed opportunities. My ambitions keep me focused on the big picture while the goals I set and pursue serve as my compass to direct the steps of the journey. The desire to accomplish something is not…
Choose ambitions wisely. Seems like sound advice. As I worked my way through the books of Kings and Chronicles I noted a concerning pattern of behavior. I found examples of men who started well but dropped their guard and tumbled into depravity as age and experience increased. Jehoshaphat, Joash, and Uzziah all made the list….