My heart was profoundly moved when I met Jim at a men's retreat not long ago. He had a ready smile and seemed about my age. He was never without his baseball cap for a reason I found out later. During the course of the retreat I had several conversations with Jim. He...
Feeling inspired or expired? Which word best describes how you feel about your midlife and beyond years? We're used to everything having an expiration date these days. Even a sealed bottle of pure water has a date when it expires! A close friend told me recently his...
Have you thought about what it would be like to live until you're 90 years old? That time may be so far into the future it's hard to imagine. You may feel somewhat daunted by having another 30-40 years to go. Or you may welcome the idea of the new adventures and...
Did you know that the longest tennis match in history lasted more than eleven hours and scored a combined total of nine hundred and eighty points? It took place over three days in 2010 at Wimbledon, England between John Isner of the United States and Nicolas Mahut...
As a kid, I grew up in Southern California. One of the things I looked forward to was taking a trip to my grandparent’s cabin located in the San Bernardino Mountains about three hours outside of Los Angeles. One trip in particular is seared in my memory. I was sitting...
What do you see in your future? This question implies that you are looking forward into your future, not in the past through the rear view mirror. That's an important distinction. The rear view mirror often distorts what took place. Regrets and disappointments can...
Do you ever feel like you are scanning the horizon for an answer from God? I sure do! We live with so many uncertainties today that getting an answer from heaven is at a premium. What about my health problems...unemployment...financial worries...marriage...
I was introduced to a new word this week — Elderlescence. Have you heard it before? It's not in the dictionaries yet. Hans Finzel, author of the new book, Launch Your Encore (Baker Books), told me that it describes a new stage of life between one's career and old age....
Ever thought of your life as a story? Maybe a love story? A drama? A mystery? A thriller? A work of science fiction? A battlefield? A story of triumph and tragedy? A strong case can be made that it's "all of the above!" You are in the midst of living out an epic novel...
Ever have days when you can't seem to shake off feeling discouraged by life's unrelenting problems? For some reason they seem to really crowd in during the midlife and beyond years. It's very common for marriage dissatisfaction to surface. Regrets and disappointments...