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When I see what God is doing with people who take those crazy journeys trying to be an offering to someone else, I wonder if it isn't possible to say that God is happy; he uses us. Just as God used the death and resurrection of his Son and the Holy Spirit to set us free, God also uses us when we freely offer ourselves to him. Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

Lynn Miller is a traveling stewardship teacher for Mennonite Mutual Aid of Goshen, Indiana. He has written Firstfruits Living and Just in Time: Stories of God's Extravagance, both published by Herald Press.

Miller's Retirement Savings Worksheet offers an alternative to other retirement calendars.

Herald Press's site offers a page for Miller's Just in Time, but not Firstfruits Living.

Just in Time and Firstfruits Living are available at Amazon.com and other book retailers.

Past Christianity Today articles on retirement planning include coverage of the Finishers Project, which encourages early retirees toward second careers in missions. Articles have included:

Finishing Well | After achieving success, early retirees are finding significance in second-career mission assignments. (Oct. 5, 1998)

Baby Boomers for Hire | Sell-out audience crowds first-time missions recruitment event.

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March 6 2000, Vol. 44, No. 3