--- title: Abundant Aging - Center for Abundant Aging (28) description: Aging abundantly. What is it? Is it achievable? Are you living it? Find out how to live abundantly through this thought-provoking blog series designed to inspire and come alongside your journey of aging with purpose. (28) --- [![Center for Abundant Aging](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/wp-content/uploads/uch-logo-200x84.png "Center for Abundant Aging")](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center) [Back to United Church Homes](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/) This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. - [Educational Opportunities](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/educational-opportunities/) - [Overview](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/educational-opportunities/) - [Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE)](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/educational-opportunities/clinical-pastoral-education-cpe/) - [Quellhorst Endowment Fund](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/educational-opportunities/quellhorst-scholars/) - [High School Community Service Opportunities](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/educational-opportunities/high-school-community-service-opportunities/) - [Internships-Undergraduate and Graduate](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/educational-opportunities/internships-undergraduate-and-graduate/) - [Research Opportunities](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/educational-opportunities/research-opportunities/) - Engagement with Congregations - [Resources for Worship and Reflection](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/resources-for-worship-and-reflection/) - [Age-Friendly Congregations](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/age-friendly-congregations/) - [Church Resources](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/church-resources/) - [About the Center](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/about-the-center/) - [Overview](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/about-the-center/) - [Meet Rev. Beth Long-Higgins](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/meet-rev-beth-long-higgins/) - [Advisory Committee](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/advisory-committee/) - [Press Releases](https://www.abundantaging.org/category/press-releases/) - [Contact the Center](https://www.unitedchurchhomes.org/parker-center/contact/) # The Best Things We Leave Behind Aren't Things By Ashley Bills  •  November 05, 2026 I learned a long time ago that material things bring temporary happiness. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/the-best-things-we-leave-behind-arent-things) ## Recent Blog Posts ### The Amazing Miracle of Music By Reverend Bobbie McKay, Ph.D.  •  February 17, 2022 Her name was Emma MacDonald. She was a single lady, at that time known as a spinster: a woman dedicated to the training and teaching of piano lessons for young children... [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/the-amazing-miracle-of-music) ### Memories of Musical Moments By Rev. John Gantt  •  February 10, 2022 After five months on the job, I nearly lost it. Because of Palm Sunday. We opened with the grand processional hymn “All Glory, Laud and Honor.” The choir, the children.. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/memories-of-musical-moments) ### Music Memories By Rev. Beth Long-Higgins, VP of Engagement and director of the Center for Abundant Aging  •  February 03, 2022 My great grandmother would come to visit and stay for a couple of weeks each year. Together with my mother they would play piano duets in the evening after I had been.. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/music-memories) ### Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande, M.D. By Eric Johnson  •  January 31, 2022 Being Mortal is a meditation on how the many triumphs of modern medicine have impacted end of life decisions. We have many choices to make as we face death from our.. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/being-mortal-medicine-and-what-matters-in-the-end) ### An Ordinary Day And Then God Arrived! By Reverend Bobbie McKay, Ph.D.  •  January 27, 2022 I had put the job off for several weeks. Excuses were easy: I don’t have time now; it’s not really important; no one will notice. But my compulsive-work-oriented-self.. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/an-ordinary-day-and-then-god-arrived) ### The Questions A Reader Asks By Rev. Ruth D. Fitzgerald  •  January 20, 2022 Illuminating books. We can read that phrase a couple of different ways. Are books, by their contents illuminating? Do they shed new understanding on life’s experiences.. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/the-questions-a-reader-asks) ### Invincible Summer By Rev. John Gantt  •  January 13, 2022 Slide projectors, each with its own carousel, were stacked three high. They were managed by a dissolve unit, and by the creativity of the writer/photographer whose.. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/invincible-summer) ### Light and Truth By Rev. Beth Long-Higgins, VP of Engagement and director of the Center for Abundant Aging  •  January 06, 2022 One year ago this day, January 6, 2021, this blog’s writers were scheduled for a zoom planning meeting at 3:00. As news from the events unfolding in Washington DC began.. [Read More](https://blog.unitedchurchhomes.org/light-and-truth) ### New Year's Eve By Rev. Beth Long-Higgins, VP of Engagement and director of the Center for Abundant Aging  •  December 30, 2021 End of the year holiday expectations are often tied to memories of past celebrations. So, back in November I asked about 50 people in leadership at United Church Homes.. 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