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title: Abundant Aging - Center for Abundant Aging (8)
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. (8)
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# 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.
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## Recent Blog Posts
### Abundant Focus: Resources for Living
By Ashley Bills • August 07, 2025
Empowering your journey to live abundantly at every age.
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### 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..
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### 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!”
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### 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..
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### 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..
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### 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..
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### 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..
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### 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..
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### 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..
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