"Embracing Your Second Calling"

 

Happy Saturday everyone!  I haven't been good at keeping up with my "Saturday Morning Scriptures and Stuff" blogs.  Somewhere through the holidays I got off my schedule and still haven't been able to get back on track, but hopefully I will get my act together soon so we can meet here on Saturday mornings again!  

There is one thing I wanted to share this morning specifically for my sisters who are hitting the "Crap, I'm getting old and don't know what to do with myself" stage-- like I am!   I have a wonderful women's group that meets regularly on Thursday mornings and starting this week we are going to be reading Dale Hanson Bourke's book, "Embracing Your Second Calling: Find Passion ad Purpose for the Rest of Your Life".   Here's a little excerpt from the introduction to this book:

    "When I wrote Second Calling a few years ago, I was at the beginning of the journey into this chapter of my life.  A bit shell-shocked by the signs of age, a bit saddened by the impending empty nest, a bit overwhelmed by the realization that my ambitions were changing, I was struggling to make sense of it all.

    I am a few more miles down this road now.  My grown sons have both left home.  I have a new job that takes me to Africa regularly and challenges my comfort zone on every level.  My husband and I have started talking about selling the house and planning for retirement.  My mother has health problems, so my sister and I are more involved in caring for her and managing her life.

     But this is not just my story.  That, more than anything, is what I have learned.  Woman after woman has told me that Second Calling felt like it was written 'just for me'.  The revelation, for all of us, has been that we are not alone.  The joy has been that we feel free to share our struggles and fears and dreams with one another in a way we never felt we could do before.  And for many of us, that means that we can truly embrace our second calling ---even if we don't know exactly what it is."

If any of you can relate to this, I'd love for you to read the book along with us and join in for conversation here on my blog throughout the next few weeks.   FYI, I ordered the books for our group here: Amazon:Second Calling   They are paperbacks, so inexpensive to order!  We will be reading the introduction and first chapter "A New Day Dawning" this week. 

I'll leave you with my bible verse/wish for you this week:  Love you all.... M

Romans 15:13- "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may over-flow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."