by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 12, 2024 | 2024, Aging, Meaning & Purpose, Third Agers
Any reflection on work with Third Agers (those 60 and older) must begin by remembering their humanity. Third Agers are not aliens or cyborgs. They are human beings and so share the needs of all human beings. The Need for Community It is not good for...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 7, 2024 | 2024, Aging, Community, Meaning & Purpose, Third Agers
You know you may be speaking at a seniors’ fellowship meeting when: They ask if you need to go to the washroom before you start. You start your talk with a reference to your recent colonoscopy. In a discussion as to what we will be doing just before we go...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 31, 2024 | 2024, Discernment, Meaning & Purpose, Relationships, Work & Vocation
Tomorrow it’ll be June. Soon, we will be halfway through 2024. It’s a good time for a mid-year life check. There are at least four things that make life meaningful. * Communion — our walk with God * Community — our walk...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 19, 2024 | 2024, Hope, Meaning & Purpose, Mentoring
I heard a very profound story a few nights ago. He was a retired teacher. In his last year as a teacher, some of his students asked him why he chose to be a teacher. He said that he had wanted to change the world. Then he said that obviously he hadn’t...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 16, 2024 | 2024, Christian Identity, Meaning & Purpose, Work & Vocation
The best book I have read recently on preparing for the later years of life is From Strength To Strength by Arthur C. Brooks. (1) I commend it to all who take their life seriously whatever age they may be. The things he proposes may not be new to many of us....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 21, 2023 | 2023, Afterlife, Articles, Death & Grief, Meaning & Purpose
Some people are apprehensive about death because they fear that in the next life they will have to leave behind all that makes life meaningful in this life. They shouldn’t be. What are some things that make life meaningful in this life? Well, many of us...
