Abundant Focus: Resources for Living

By Ashley Bills  •  August 07, 2025

Empowering your journey to live abundantly at every age.

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Abundant Focus: Resources for Living

By Ashley Bills  •  August 07, 2025

Empowering your journey to live abundantly at every age.

The Challenge of Letting People Help

By Rev. Joanna D’Agostino  •  July 31, 2025

The first time I wrote for the Abundant Aging Blog, I shared my love of the Haitian proverb, "the neighborhood is the family." It’s a foundational phrase for me, which I..

Pretzels, Prayers, and Parenting: A Whimsical Year with Our Swiss Son

By Anthony Spearhart  •  July 24, 2025

June 1st, 2023: “CONGRATULATIONS! It’s a Boy!”

The Love of Non-Parent Parents

By Kim Moeller  •  July 17, 2025

I’m not a parent. It’s not that I did not want children, I just didn’t know I wanted kids until I was later in life and single. While I know women who were single and..

The Language of Mom

By Lisa B. Thomas  •  July 10, 2025

About ten years ago, my husband John and I planned to visit our son Tim, who had recently relocated to Florida. Part of that trip included a few days at Disney World..

Each Generation Calls to the Next

By Rev. Ruth D. Fitzgerald  •  July 03, 2025

In this new season of life—early into retirement with grown adult children fully into charting their careers and raising children, I’ve found myself reviewing my own..

Muse and Musician Celebrate Gratitude

By Rev. John Gantt  •  June 26, 2025

Editor’s Note: As we say thank you to Rev. Gantt as he concludes his volunteer service on the United Church Homes’ Blog Team for the past five years, we felt like this..

Opportunity in Aging

By Rev. John Gantt  •  June 19, 2025

For many of us United Church Homes’ blog readers, I suspect Juneteenth is a relatively strange word. It was only four years ago that then President Joe Biden signed..

When Love Finds a Home

By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  June 12, 2025

It was a beautiful day in May 1973 and it was our wedding day--a second marriage for both of us and our entry into that new kind of family that was emerging, better..