Getting Home Before Dark

by Dyck, Peter J.

• ISBN13: 9780836191356
• ISBN10: 0836191358
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Herald Pr

Summary

Life is exciting and rewarding, full of challenge and frustration. Yet suddenly more than half is gone, and we have done so little. So we recognize that we are not called to save the world. Christ has done that. But we are called to be faithful.

Peter J. Dyck has spent most of his life with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), a church service agency. He defines Christian service as living for others, in any role that truly benefits others, whether at home or abroad.

In these meditations for all ages, Dyck shares stories and insights from his wealth of experience, helping refugees, building peace, and challenging audiences. He especially promotes intergenerational family life.

With all our efforts, he says, we eventually learn that our greatest satisfaction comes from relationships with other people. We often fail and need forgiveness. With Paul, we confess that we see only "in a mirror, dimly", and "know only in part". We look forward to knowing fully, when we see our Lord "face to face". Meanwhile, the greatest grace is love.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(2)
Jerry K. Robbins
For God's Sake, Do Something!	11	(2)
I Can Do Everything!	13	(5)
Redeeming the Time	18	(3)
Pegs and Ropes	21	(5)
Sharing Our Joy	26	(5)
Six Sources of Family Strength	31	(11)
A Message for Old and Young	42	(9)
When Do I Move?	51	(3)
Learning to Let God	54	(3)
How Old Is Old?	57	(7)
Power Through Gratitude	64	(7)
Getting Home Before Dark	71	(3)
The Greatest Joy of All	74	(2)
What Time Is It?	76	(10)
Sharing Our Stories	86	(9)
Why Not Name It?	95	(8)
Becoming Kinder	103	(3)
A Second Career	106	(4)
Can You Imagine That?	110	(4)
Learning to Listen	114	(4)
Passing on the Faith	118	(4)
Life Before Death?	122	(4)
Humor: God's Gift to Us	126	(5)
A Second Pulpit	131	(3)
What About Our Money?	134	(7)
What About Our Health?	141	(5)
What About Our Prodigals?	146	(8)
Needed: An Absorbing Interest	154	(3)
It's Not Too Late---Yet!	157	(5)
Caught in the Middle	162	(6)
The Importance of Perspective	168	(4)
How Can We Know God's Will?	172	(7)
Turning Reversals into Victory	179	(6)
Walking by Faith	185	(3)
Recipe for Happiness	188	(2)
Why Not Confess?	190	(5)
Caring Enough to Share	195	(4)
Shoot to Kill?	199	(6)
Love Is Never Lost	205	(3)
Incarnation as Identification	208	(5)
The Opposite of Stealing	213	(4)
Living in the As-If Mode	217	(4)
The Taste of New Wine	221	(4)
Why Not Travel?	225	(5)
Never Too Old to Play or Pray	230	(7)
The Death of a Spouse	237	(4)
Woes and Joys of Grandparenting	241	(8)
Ten Thoughts on Aging	249	(2)
Lengthening Shadows	251	(6)
When Death Comes	257	(6)
Victory Through Christ	263	(3)
Death Swallowed Up	266	(5)
The Trumpet Will Sound	271	(3)
Appendix ``Let Me Get Home Before Dark,''	274	(2)
J. Robertson McQuilkin
Bibliography	276	(3)
The Author	279