Retirement is the opportunity to practice humility and wisdom.
An opportunity to trust God with the future.
An opportunity to mentor another generation.
Far too many people retire with no attention to these opportunities. “I’ve done my bit. It’s time to collect,” tends to be the implicit logic that many take to their retirement.
There is nothing wrong with enjoying the provisions you have made for the future.
There is something wrong with treating life as something to be plundered.
Part of the problem that we face nationally is that we are at the end of the third generation that has neglected the notion legacy. The result? Millions of stories that end in a chapter entitled “me,” rather than millions of contributions to a story about “us.”
There is something rich, wonderful, necessary, and enduring about the joining of hands across generations that takes seriously the notion of legacy and the responsibility that goes along with it. It is a story that ends with “us.”