LENT 2025: March 25

It is 65 days (less, really) until I am officially retired.

Retiring is hard work.

For one, there is dealing with Medicare and supplement plans. Sheesh.

Second, there is going to be the final office cleaning out, which is preceded by making sure all the responsibilities of being an academic chair and professor are tied up. Not there yet, and probably will not be until Memorial Day (last day is May 30).

And of course, the emotional transition. I suspect some people are going to expect me to fill my time with helping them out. I can't use work as an excuse any more (I'm being facetious, well, maybe not).

In other words, I am facing a different reality.

We do not think about how Jesus the Son of God faced a different reality in his days on earth. What a difference. We cannot fathom it. Of course, we would take a while to not have electricity and indoor plumbing (much less no coffee). Again, facetiousness. More, Jesus had to be surrounded by sin and suffering, knowing he would take on both, full bore.

It makes me shiver.

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