Monday’s Reflection
WHEN I SIT DOWN TO TALK with Betty, she is in the midst of a difficult life transition. During the last year, her husband passed away following a brief illness. For sixty-one years they had loved each other with a longer-than-forever kind of love. Now she has moved into a one-bedroom apartment in a retirement community, leaving behind the home they had built as newlyweds.
. . . Truly Betty models for others an attitude of gracious acceptance of her situation. She sees again as part of God’s plan for humankind. Rather than something to dread, aging presents an opportunity for God to reveal God’s strength. Betty is running the race of life and finishing strong. I am confident that she will one day hear the words, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” And when she does, all the bells of heaven will ring.
- Missy Buchanan
Don’t Write My Obituary Just Yet
From pages 7, 10 of Don’t Write My Obituary Just Yet: Inspiring Faith Stories for Older Adults by Missy Buchanan. Copyright © 2011 by Missy Buchanan. All rights reserved. Used by permission. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this book.
Today’s Question
How can God reveal God’s strength in your present situation? Share your reflections.
Today’s Scripture Reading
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