“We retirees need...to leave behind the professional identities we’ve spent years building and...fortify our eternal identities. For many, career identities have been idols.... Retirement is the time to finally destroy them.... It’s no diminishment of who we are but rather a fuller, more freeing understanding of ourselves.
“Revelation 22:3 informs us that in the New Jerusalem, we’ll serve the Lamb who sits on the throne. Let’s do that even now...in any opportunity he brings our way.”
– Retired endocrinologist Cathy Scheraldi-Núñez in a “Faith & Work” column on The Gospel Coalition website. Read more at bit.ly/41whpoo.