By the time someone is around 45-50, their lives typically begin to change. The kids are out of high school and beginning their own lives either in college or working. This shift of responsibility for them begins to change how we think, what we can do with our time and hopefully, some our finances are more available for us to do things we would like to do.
There are two times in many people’s lives that are unique. For those who attend college, that is a special time of 4-5 years that we are unable to reproduce even by going back to college later in life. College years are typically filled with very little responsibility other than studies and you are surrounded by hundreds or thousands of other young people with the same circumstances. It’s a very important time as many find their mate and hopefully receive an educational basis for a profession that will take them through life.
The next 25-30 years are typically spent working lots of hours and raising a family. The next unique time comes around 50 when a person is at the peak of their profession and the kids are out of the house, bringing some freedom. Regardless what life circumstances you had leading up to about age 50, there will likely be another unique time of life that will hopefully last for about the next 20 years where life circumstances give you health and flexibility to do things.
It is this time to “do things” that we want to tap into through 2nd Half Ministries. It is very easy for us to spend all our time and money on ourselves. That’s not a good model at any point in life, but certainly not at this point. We should have involvement in church, not isolation by saying to ourselves, “I’ve raised my kids in church, they are on their own, now it’s not important for me to attend.”
Ask the Lord, “Ok, now what do you want me to do?”
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