Elders Living a Legacy
Living a legacy rather than simply leaving a legacy. All our lives we are in the process of living the legacy that we will leave. In the elder years, we are even more aware of what it means to live a legacy. Here we highlight stories of elders reflecting on what it means to age and cultivate the legacy that will be left for the next generation.
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Marjory Bankson, former President of Faith at Work, is writing a new book titled Creative Aging
, for what used to be referred to as “retirement years,” but now we know as the start of a whole new cycle of elder call. Click for the full interview with Marjory. Her book, Creative Aging
, will be available in spring 2010. (
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Doing relational bible studies in the gospel of John all these years has provided many learning challenges and still does. Questions from John like “Who sinned?”, “Where were you when my brother died?”, “How will we feed these people?”, and “What are you looking for?” have opened up my own life story... (
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This is the image of God with which I was reared, in a church that taught a very literal fear of God's wrath. I was good because I was afraid to be bad... (
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This is my 75th year and I am in unfamiliar territory. Waiting is not my favorite thing to do and that's what I find myself doing a lot... (
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Last week we signed with a realtor. Now we are reluctantly discarding treasures of the past and loading suitcases for a trip south... (
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