Senior Moments: Christian Seniors, Passion and Entrepreneurship
I was reading an article in USA Weekend recently on a forthcoming book called Nextville
In speaking with Christian Seniors, I am finding that many are interested in just that: finding their purpose or passion. A lot of them feel that either they have missed out on finding and/or acting on it when they were younger, or that they are just ready for a new challenge.
They are not only hungry for information on how as a Christian senior to find your purpose/passion, but how also to turn it into an entrepreneurial endeavor, whether as a business or a not-for-profit (”ministry”). Sometimes dreams are deferred, but as one of my mentors, Bishop David Evans, has said many times, “God knows how old you are.”
Wow! Think about that. That means that God has allowed you to experience the things you have in life just to get to these times when he wants you to get to the promise and destiny he has for you:
So that day Moses promised me, `The land of Canaan on which you were just walking will be your special possession and that of your descendants forever, because you wholeheartedly followed the Lord my God.’
Now, as you can see, the Lord has kept me alive and well as he promised for all these forty-five years since Moses made this promise-even while Israel wandered in the wilderness. Today I am eighty-five years old.
I am as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey, and I can still travel and fight as well as I could then.
So I’m asking you to give me the hill country that the Lord promised me. You will remember that as scouts we found the Anakites living there in great, walled cities. But if the Lord is with me, I will drive them out of the land, just as the Lord said.”
So Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave Hebron to him as an inheritance. - Joshua 14:9-13 (NLT)(emphasis mine)
Christian senior entrepreneurs, there’s still a lot more to do!
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:18 am
Late is never an excuse not to do something in life. AARP has been sending me mail for over a year now. I graduated from college(with the works, cap & gown)yesterday. I was usually older than most of my professors. There was no shame in my game. People actually gave me that thumbs up kind of look all through the ceremony. And as I crossed the podium shakeing hands, the Dean said to me “keep making those moves” as he smiled at me. Now my wife of twenty plus years desire to enhance her education.