i am smiling.thebluffs wrote:Intriguingly enough, we have a set retirement age - 65 at play in our congregation. Our lead pastor (bishop), is nominated by our leadership team and serves for a 5 year term (pending an affirmation vote from the congregation). To date, this means that we have had our most recent lead pastor serve a total of 18 years in that role, prior to being ineligible due to being near the age of 65.
Ask me in 200 years whether it worked or not.
my mother, who passed at age 88, considered men, aged 60-70-ish, to be "in the prime of their lives;" my dear great-grandmother-in-law, who passed at 100+, considered 50 to be youthful!
i tend to agree with these two wise women, each lucid until their deaths.
i also like to think of what we recognize to be ancient cultures, like the Chinese, and other Asians, who value their elders .. compared with our truly youthful and often impetuous U.S. culture.
we have so much to learn.
there's no knowing now whether the U.S. will ever become an ancient culture .. indications are not promising. God knows. we do not.
carry on.