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Micki
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Although I am not living alone (my husband and I have been happily married for 32 years), I have lost my closest family members - parents and my one sister. Bill and I have no children and no neices or nephews. Also, Bill is an only child. We have a few close friends and I have gotten closer to my cousins in the past few years.
As I contemplate retirement I have grown fearful of being alone yet I have grown so very weary of all of the “people problems” at work. I’ve heard others say that as you get older your world get smaller. I am both attracted and fearful of that. So, through prayer I have begun to embrace my solitide and the thought that it might increase as the years pass. I have invited Jesus into this solitude and pray he will graciously accept.
As a child I can remember wanting to stay in the empty quiet church in front of the tabernacle rather than going out onto that noisey playground. I feel that way now.
As I contemplate retirement I have grown fearful of being alone yet I have grown so very weary of all of the “people problems” at work. I’ve heard others say that as you get older your world get smaller. I am both attracted and fearful of that. So, through prayer I have begun to embrace my solitide and the thought that it might increase as the years pass. I have invited Jesus into this solitude and pray he will graciously accept.
As a child I can remember wanting to stay in the empty quiet church in front of the tabernacle rather than going out onto that noisey playground. I feel that way now.