Saving the Best Wine Until Last
At a time when people are generally retiring later and living longer, I guess it could be said that 'sixty is the new forty'. Nevertheless, as I approach my sixtieth birthday, there is a sense in which the turning of the decade has a particular significance. There can now be little doubt that far more of my life lies behind me than ahead of me. In terms of my working life and ministry, I've still got some years to go - God willing - and yet retirement looms on the horizon, bringing with it a welcome release from any vestige of ambition or 'career' anxiety. Plenty of people told me this would happen. I was warned many years ago that I would one day wake up and wonder where all the years had gone. At that time, of course, I simply laughed, just as my younger friends and colleagues do now as I utter the same words of wisdom to them; and more recently friends have warned me that reaching sixty would bring with it a more reflective frame of mind, of which I suspect thi...