Here is the link for the article I wrote for Associated Content. Hope you enjoy.
View From a Wheelchair
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5419366/view_from_a_wheelchair.html?cat=5
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Seasons and Things
Well it's finally come. My hubby and I are both retired. Now what? This is so strange. We have worked hard all our lives and here we are just the two of us passing each other in the hallway like two ships in the night. Rather quiet and ghostly around here..clock ticking...feeling the age with bones stiff and creaky. Because our income is at a place where it needs to stay in order to have medical benefits we can afford we don't have the option of part time work. We couldn't physically work enough to make medical needs on our own so we are kind of stuck. There were days..sometimes many one after another when I cried out "Oh, Lord, How long must this be?" when I was working so hard. Now I pray to know what direction we should go in now.
I heard Joni Ereckson speaking over radio the other day. She said when she goes home to Maryland where she grew up it doesn't feel like home anymore. She has lived in California for 30 years and since she didn't grow up there it doesn't feel like home either. I know just that feeling. My heart stays in WV but it's not really home anymore. We have lived in the deep south for almost 6 years and although we like it here it's just not home either. Now when you add to this the new season of retirement you have a couple of people who are wondering what do we do now? It really is the strangest feeling...not home..not working...and time just ticking away.
I know the Lord will unfold his plan but right now it is a very strange season. It's a time for much prayer...a time to get used to our lives together again. After spending the better part of these years here being apart a lot and then being so tired when together it is quite different now spending the long hours of the day and evening with each other.
Seems like our big event of the day right now is getting the morning paper! lol. Really we are blessed with family and grandchildren here and we visit very often. It's just finding what to do in the in between hours that is challenging. We have a couple of projects in mind for doing a little remodeling. I have hopes and dreams of visiting our daughter in Mass. My dream, having a nice sewing room, may happen before long. Don't know...that's the part that is hard...don't know.
I often use the words of Jesus when he said "this too shall pass"..I'm sure he is not going to leave us rattling around the house for long and then we may once again long for 'retirement' ..lol
Perhaps this is just a resting time that's been needed for a long time, then we'll get busy again with new things he has for us.
Seasons come and go and each one has it's own beauty. He makes all things beautiful in his time.
I heard Joni Ereckson speaking over radio the other day. She said when she goes home to Maryland where she grew up it doesn't feel like home anymore. She has lived in California for 30 years and since she didn't grow up there it doesn't feel like home either. I know just that feeling. My heart stays in WV but it's not really home anymore. We have lived in the deep south for almost 6 years and although we like it here it's just not home either. Now when you add to this the new season of retirement you have a couple of people who are wondering what do we do now? It really is the strangest feeling...not home..not working...and time just ticking away.
I know the Lord will unfold his plan but right now it is a very strange season. It's a time for much prayer...a time to get used to our lives together again. After spending the better part of these years here being apart a lot and then being so tired when together it is quite different now spending the long hours of the day and evening with each other.
Seems like our big event of the day right now is getting the morning paper! lol. Really we are blessed with family and grandchildren here and we visit very often. It's just finding what to do in the in between hours that is challenging. We have a couple of projects in mind for doing a little remodeling. I have hopes and dreams of visiting our daughter in Mass. My dream, having a nice sewing room, may happen before long. Don't know...that's the part that is hard...don't know.
I often use the words of Jesus when he said "this too shall pass"..I'm sure he is not going to leave us rattling around the house for long and then we may once again long for 'retirement' ..lol
Perhaps this is just a resting time that's been needed for a long time, then we'll get busy again with new things he has for us.
Seasons come and go and each one has it's own beauty. He makes all things beautiful in his time.
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