[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”So Wes, why did you choose me to write about the advantages of growing older?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] After all, I’m young and getting younger by the day! OK, so the years are adding up, but that doesn’t mean I can’t choose to be younger. I also work with older people all […]
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”“Younger people just don’t want to listen anymore.”” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] That lament was voiced to me by a relatively successful retired businessman several weeks ago. “They are all just off in their own worlds doing their own thing. How come you seem to have so many younger folk talking with you?”
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”I recall a seminary student in a dilemma.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] I was his professor, assigned to oversee his mentoring experience. The student sought my help. His elderly mentor had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and would be unable to “make do” on his commitment. I knew this mentor. He was
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”My Father will turn 100 in eight weeks…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …at least that’s the best guess we have of his age. They didn’t do nice, tidy birth certificates in the 1915 Ozarks. Mom is 91. All nine siblings and I have had the privilege of walking with them through the Third3rd
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Two ings will help you stay alive!” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] If you are thinking at all, then I know you will be able to come up with more “ing” words than I am going to talk about here. In fact, let me know what you come up with…all thoughts on “ings” are
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Our concern must be to live while we are alive…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a façade designed to conform to eternal definitions of who and what we are. Wise words from Elisabeth Kubler-Ross As we begin to take some
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”…an interview with Gary and Jorie Gulbranson” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] It was late summer of 1973 when my wife, Judy, and I met Gary and Jorie Gulbranson. They were newlyweds. We had been married for over six years. Gary and I were beginning grad school in Denver, and both of we couples
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”When I grow up I want to be _________.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] I watched as a room full of rowdy 8th graders took the stage. An adventuresome, excited presence filled the room as each kid glided across the floor as their name was called to be given a diploma and a “congratulations
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Laura Ingalls Wilder has enriched three generations of my family…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] My wife and I read the Little House on the Prairie series in our childhood and early in our marriage, we bought the whole set of nine books. It is worn and dog-eared now, having been read by my
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