In the past week alone, I found myself in three different conversations with colleagues who are walking alongside aging parents in their late 80s and early 90s. Each one expressed a similar worry: their parent seems deeply lonely. These older adults are living with the natural physical changes that come with aging, but those physical challenges are intertwined with emotional and spiritual ones as well. Grief is present in each of their stories. One parent is grieving the loss of a longtime..
Imagine my chagrin. In my high school days (oh my – that was over 70 years ago!) I thought I invented a word.
While sacrifice is often portrayed as something grand, I believe it doesn’t have to be. I've come to see it as a quieter concept, rooted in the small, everyday choices..
I wasn’t expecting to lose anything. It was the summer before I started high school and as far as I was concerned, life was normal but with an edge of excitement that..
This past summer, my husband John and I left our suburban Cleveland home to visit John’s sister Mary and her husband Joe in the small college town of Goshen, Indiana...
Words from one of our blog writers define unbelonging as times when one feels left out, judged, or totally different. My story may illustrate how that works.
Belonging is a concept that is more than just intellectual understanding. Most often belonging is something we know intuitively, something we sense. It includes..
What will you do with the gift of an additional 20-30 years in average life expectancy? Will you waste those years or will you connect with your reason to get out of bed..
Embracing the Journey: My Unplanned Path to Retirement By Rev. Dr. Barbara Kershner Daniel • October 03, 2024
Truth be told, I’ve had real difficulty writing this blog post. In fact, even though I’m a procrastinator by nature and always push a deadline, I had to ask for an..
