Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Extra-ordinary! Theme for this Week: Growing Old Is an Oxymoron Friday, February 22, 2002
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January/February 200251Extra-ordinary!Theme for this Week: Growing Old Is an Oxymoron Extra-ordinary! Theme for this Week: Growing Old Is an Oxymoron Friday, February 22
Key Bible Verse: God wants you to give what you have, not what you don't have (2 Corinthians 8:12). Bonus Reading:Psalm 71:17–18
Denny and Jeanne are warm, committed Christians who wrestled for some time with what the Lord wanted them to do in retirement. "We're just very ordinary people," both admit.
The Grindalls decided to leave their successful florist business in Seattle and tour for several months, While in Kenya, they visited the once nomadic Masai. They found their life expectancy to be extremely low. Chickens, pigs, and other animals were living with humans in their mud huts. Together, Denny and Jeanne decided they'd go back to live among the Masai, share their knowledge in horticulture, and give guidance from their own experience. They helped them learn how to obtain vitally needed water, build pigpens, and develop sanitation facilities.
Today, six months out of every year, this post-middle age couple lives among the Masai, beautifully accepted by them. The once unsanitary huts are cleaned out. The quality of health has improved greatly. The people are living longer. Children are no longer malnourished. The lives of whole communities have been tremendously improved through their loving, caring concern.
—Ted Engstrom in Seizing the Torch
My Response: I'll begin now to explore ways I could make a difference later in life.
Thought to Apply: Keeping useful keeps us youthful. —Source unknown
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