PERSPECTIVE ON GROWING OLDER
Being as I’m now in my middle fifties, I occasionally give some thought to those years, down the road a ways, when I might want to retire. My financial advisor tells me I should give thought to making provision for those years if I want to stay out of the county poor farm. And whenever I have to attend to those sort of plans I sometimes get to thinking back over the career. I remember in particular 1956, some 30 years back. I was a Middler at Fuller Seminary, married and with three little kids. That was the year I had my first surgery, the year I was beginning to think about my future pastoral career. Since then I have served some five churches and I review with nostalgia and warmth those years of service since then. And I think about my grey hair. And I start to remember how I’m growing older. And then I remember that year in…
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