Monday's thoughts

Robert Keck in his book The Sacred Quest wrote:
"What do I mean by making my aging more holistic? Well, our culture's bias, as well as our own physical pain and infirmities, tends to make aging simply a matter of the physical body. As a materialistic culture, we have become totally preoccupied with physical aging. My existential attempt is to balance it all out, to be more holistic and consider the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of aging as well as the physical and material.
At sixty-five, I cannot play handball as I did when I was twenty-five or forty-five, but I know a long more about life now than I did then. Which is more important? At sixty-five, I am not as capable at throwing a football or a baseball as I was forty or fifty year ago, but I am a lot better at loving than I was then. Which is more important? At sixty-five, I'm not as strong physically as I once was-after all, some of the macho muscle has turned into mucho mush-but I am physiologically stronger in a lot of ways. Which is more important?"

If we look at life as a sacred quest then the journey is as important as the destination and evolving is more important than doing.

This sermon will look at the span of age and what we can and should look for on the journey.

Each age has its blessings.

What is the blessing of the age you are?
What do you anticipate as the blessing coming to you at the next stage of your journey?

If you have thoughts on this write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the box below.

I look forward to your response.


Charles Schuster