Exciting, isn’t it?  Looking down the road of retirement and envisioning all the freedom to do just as one pleases.  Imagining the trips, the outings, the relaxed mornings over coffee – we have a lot to celebrate as we enter this season of life.  I don’t know anyone who would turn down weeks on end…

The thought first struck me while we were living in Africa, Uganda to be precise. Rather late in our professional careers, we had gone there, under a rather “impossible to refuse” calling by God, to build an elementary school in a small village. I was living out a decades long dream to be a missionary…