WHAT IS RETIREMENT?

...A church member keeps membership records on her church's computer until she is ninety.

...An eighty-eight year old neighbor works at a local Post Office twenty hours a week.

...An eighty-six year old woman walks nine holes of golf five times a week, often when the temp is over ninety.

...A ninety year old man pilots a P-38 fighter plane, the same kind he flew in World War Two.
...A former president sky dives on his eighty-fifth birthday

...A man in his mid-seventies drives to church in his 700 horsepower Dodge sports car.

...At eighty-nine, a world renowned pianist performs one of his greatest recitals in Carnegie Hall.

...An eighty-six year old mother of seven is rarely home, usually traveling to see one of her families.

...A farmer's son publishes his first book at sixty-five and begins his twenty-fifth book seven years later.

...A ninety-five year old Grandmother lives alone and reads books on her Kindle.

...A seventy-seven year old pastor accepts a fulltime call to serve a church in California.

...An eighty-four year old pastor finally stops preaching every Sunday and driving forty miles each way.

...A former school teacher composes her own Christmas letter in poetic verse until she is one hundred.

...A ninety-four year old entertainer performs at a theater where he first started sixty-three years before.

...At eighty-three, a nationally known radio broadcaster signs a ten year contract to continue his show.

           These people are supposed to be retired? What, then, does "retirement" mean? To some, it surely doesn't mean leaving a job, sitting in a rocker and doing nothing. It means a change in their schedule, working less, doing what they always wanted to do, or just saying "no" to a forty-hour week. They did it because they decided to, and they did it because they still could.

            We read of the many aged Bible people who blessed God with faith and good works. God still brings blessings into the world through such people. Psalm 92:14 tells us, "The righteous shall still bear fruit in old age; they will still stay fresh and green."

All of these "retirees" are Americans. I have personally known 10 of them..

Rev. Bob Tasler, www.bobtasler.com