Jesus Knows Our Suffering

My wife leads a weekly "Christian circle" at a nursing home. An Alzheimer's patient named Betsy faithfully attends, led there by a staff ...

Mission Delayed

As a 15-year-old girl in 1927, Lois Secrist promised God she'd go overseas as a missionary, perhaps to Africa or India, helping the needy. But Lois ...

Taking Risks

In an article on old-time pickup softball games—where seniors in Naperville, Illinois, gather twice weekly to test their skills against one another—writer ...

Keep Making a Little Progress

Follow with me a 90-year-old man bent with the weight of his years; slow of step, with stooped and rounded shoulders. It is early morning, and he's ...

Every Day a Celebration

Passing by a table in a local restaurant, I noticed a gentleman who was to be celebrating his 100th birthday the following week, eating with some of his ...

Herm Haakenson: Fisher of Men

Herm Haakenson: A salmon fisherman and "fisher of men"

During salmon season, he is permitted only one catch a week from his commercial fishing ...

Dealing with Old Age

When you get old, everyone starts to think you're incompetent. You can't let folks assume you're nothing but a helpless old fool. But you ...

Hidden Truth

It is the meaning that men attribute to their life, it is their entire system of values that define the meaning and the value of old age. The reverse ...

Ministry in Chapters

Ministry is done in chapters, and wise is the minister who knows his page number.

Hold onto Ideals

People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. Worry, self-doubt, self-distrust, ...