Join us Sundays at 10am for our intriguing and thought provoking Seminars live on Zoom. Meeting ID: 829 6457 0385, Passcode: 1624
Sunday, May 9th – No Seminar – Happy Mother’s Day!
Sunday, May 16th – “The Secret of Successful Aging,” with Star Bradbury – Most people dream of the life they’ll live when they retire. But what about when things don’t go as planned? There are some critical questions that every person over 50 must ask to help them prepare for the future, whether things go as desired or not. Discover the most important questions to start with so you can begin building a solid plan with enough flexibility to meet any health or lifestyle challenges the future may bring. This engaging presentation will inspire and educate you to look at your own life and evaluate your existing plan or develop a new one. You will walk away with a clear strategy, eager and prepared to take action today so you can set yourself up to age successfully!
Sunday, May 23rd –“Recharging Prayer: Reversing the ABCs,” with Sandy Reimer – Beginning or tuning back in (again) – with questions or old baggage or needing to refocus – wherever you are on your own journey of prayer, please join us. We’ll touch on the basics, in reverse order, starting with C – then B and A -then one more C. I promise not only some perspectives and some wonderful quotes, but also, most importantly, some experiential moments.
Sunday, May 30th – “Emerging from Introvert Heaven,” coordinated by Connie Caldwell– Introverts can experience exhaustion from too much time with other people, and need to be alone in order to recharge. Some of us actually enjoyed (not without a bit of guilt) the time of isolation. Now that we’re vaccinated and are freer to mingle, introverts may have mixed feelings. What’s been your experience of the year of COVID? (This is for introverts and for those who would like to understand them.)
We had a rather unique view of the pandemic as Bob’s grandmother had died in the 1918 pandemic. She was taken to a field hospital of tents guarded by the National Guard who prevented visitors from coming and going. It was October in Massachusetts so probably chilly, and she gave birth there prematurely to her fifth child. A cousin told us that she and the baby were brought home in the same casket. My father-in-law was eight at the time; he was one of four children who were eventually taken into the home of an aunt who cared for them in a severe Puritanical way. My own father was born in 1918 in June in Wisconsin, apparently before the Influenza really affected that part of the country. When we would walk through a cemetery my Dad used to point out all the gravestones of people who died in 1919 there; he said he had been told that almost every woman who was pregnant at that time died. Often there would be two deaths in a family in that year, frequently someone of a soldier’s age as well as a mother. For these reasons and because we have a daughter who is a hospitalist at the Lake City VA who treated numerous Covid patients, I think we were more aware of the dangers than a lot of people.