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Are you an empty nester? Are you a widow or widower? Are you out of the work force because of job loss or retirement? Are you working, but your job doesn’t have meaning to you? Does health restrict your activity? Are you just tired of it all? Have you lost your sense of purpose? Are…

“KrisHoney.” My dad often called me “KrisHoney,” saying it as all one word. I vividly remember his warmth. Our names single us out. Being called by name means you’re not an extra in a big movie scene where you just take up space. A nameless blob in the crowd. Instead, you have a unique identity.…

One of the first days of retirement I was sitting on a deck, looking out over the water, watching the birds, my feet up on the railing. Doing nothing. I had no “to do” list. I had no short-term goals. I didn’t have an up-coming performance appraisal. I hadn’t thought yet about goals in retirement.…

Seagulls sometimes use pelicans to help them catch fish. They sit on the backs of pelicans and try to steal fish that the pelicans bring up. That’s in the “using” category rather than the “helping” category, I guess. But the pelicans tolerate it. We can do better. We can help our friends in their quests to catch…

I lost a job I loved in a company I loved. That is clearly a loss. Isn’t it? Or is it? God moves us Not long after I lost my job, I read, as if for the first time, Deuteronomy 6:23. Moses told the Israelites to tell their sons that the Lord brought them out…

Are you waiting? Waiting when you know what will happen You know you will eventually get to the front of the line (see I want it NOW!). or You know that what the Lord promised will happen, definitely, for sure, in the Lord’s timing. That is waiting in faith based on certainty. Waiting with uncertainty Waiting…

“He improves every room he walks into.” That was said about a professional athlete who maintains a cheerful attitude whether or not he is playing well. Is that true of me? True of you? How did those Jesus healed respond? The gospels often do not record the response of the person Jesus healed or that…

Three feet of new snow makes me grumpy. Okay. Okay. I grumbled. I complained. I spoke against. I moaned. I groused. I protested. I griped, I objected. I muttered. I bellyached. Lots of synonyms, huh? The Israelites grumbled: bitter water, no meat, miserable food, adversity, enemies. “Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us…