After God made you, he stepped back and said, “This is a great one!
As you take stock, ask yourself these similar questions: What is my passion? How am I wired? Where do I belong? What do I believe? What will I do about what I believe? Or, as Peter Drucker advised people who were looking for their life’s task: What are my values, my aspirations, my directions, and what do I have to do, to learn, to change, in order to make myself capable of living up to my demands on myself and my expectations of life?
God uses all kinds of people to get us the help we need if we will just be aware and sensitive.
The key to a successful second half is not a change of jobs; it is a change of heart, a change in the way you view the world and order your life.
Halftime is not about beating yourself up for what you did not do, but for coming to terms with your failures and recognizing that you live under grace.
Peter Drucker told me that retirees have not proved to be the fertile source of volunteer effort we once thought they would be. They cut their engines off and lose their edge. Peter believed that if you do not have a second or parallel career in service by age forty-five, and if you are not vigorously involved in it by age fifty-five, it will never happen.
The existential writer Albert Camus discovered this truth: “In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” We.