I find my retirement years filled with many emotions and laced with more time in prayer. Those employment years (past) found me in emotional bondage grasping the misguided belief of omnipotence.
These 'more-time-on-your-hands' retirement years permits me to observe, in longer details, the outside world events, which often times carries lingering thoughts and heartaches for others.
Three recent emotionally charged examples will occupy my thoughts for weeks and keep me in prayer: (1) Last week 17 children were among 160 lost their lives when their plane crashed into the sea. (2) Close family friends of ours in (Collinsville, Illinois) were rocked with pain. A grandfather took his 13 year old and 11 year old grandsons fishing. The 13 year old boy fell from the boat and the grandfather jumped into the cold lake water attempting to save the boy; both drowned. Both drowned in the sight of the 11 year brother. (3) A few days later, a little seven year old girl survived a plane crash and walked nearly a mile (barefooted) in wooded darkness to seek help. The help she needs as will the eleven year boy will be for a lifetime. These two children must bury love ones and then face a long journey alone. Loves ones motionless in a plane wreckage and the disappearance of grandpa and brother beneath cold waters are lifelong emotional scars.
I cannot tell you the number of prayers I have whispered for a little seven year old girl, an eleven year old boy and hundreds of love one waiting for family to arrive on that Asia Air flight. Won't you whisper yours?
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