Katie Funk Wiebe - Border Crossing: A Spiritual Journey
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In this book, Katie Funk Wiebe speaks honestly, faithfully, and movingly of lifes later border crossings and shows that in the twilight time between night and fading day some of lifes greater sorrows but also larger joys can be felt. She conveys her experience so powerfully and authentically that it becomes universal. Anyone struggling through the pain and promise of crossing into one of lifes new stages will find in these pages a kindred spirit.
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Aging--Religious aspects--Mennonites, Aged women--Religious life, Christian life--Mennonite authors.
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1995
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BV4580.W47 1995eb
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248.8/5
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Aging--Religious aspects--Mennonites, Aged women--Religious life, Christian life--Mennonite authors.
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Border Crossing
A Spiritual Journey
Katie Funk Wiebe
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wiebe, Katie Funk. Border crossing : a spiritual journey / Katie Funk Wiebe. p. cm. ISBN 0-8361-9013-0 (alk. paper) 1. AgingReligious aspectsChristianity. 2. Aged women Religious life. 3. Christian lifeMennonite authors. I. Title. BV4580.W47 1995 248.8'5dc20 94-23616 CIP
The paper used in this publication is recycled and meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
All Bible quotations are used by permission, all rights reserved, and unless otherwise indicated are from The Holy Bible, New International Version, copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society, Zondervan Bible Publishers.
BORDER CROSSING Copyright 1995 by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683 Published simultaneously in Canada by Herald Press, Waterloo, Ont. N2L 6H7. All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Number: 94-23616 International Standard Book Number: 0-8361-9013-0 Printed in the United States of America Cover art and book design by Gwen M. Stamm
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To my children: Joanna, Susan, Christine, James
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Contents
Author's Preface
9
1. Specially Selected for You
17
2. The Eagle and the Weasel
27
3. Galloping, Naked, in the Night
37
4. Between a Rock and a Sure Place
50
5. Growing up Christian, Growing Old(er) Christian
63
6. The Curriculum Is Changing
74
7. Older Adult Spirituality
87
8. Growing Old(er) in a Win/Lose Culture
99
9. The Little Old Lady in Tennis Shoes
112
10. Back to My Roots
125
11. Place: The Anchor of Memory
136
12. Tilling the Soil of Memory
148
13. How to Stay Alive: Laugh a Little
156
14. Making the Fairies Last
167
15. Funerals Are Opportunities
180
16. Teacher, How Many Words Do I Need for Tomorrow's Essay?
192
17. This Gives Me Hope
204
18. Border Crossing
215
Bibliography
227
The Author
229
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A big thank you to the older adults in my circle of friends who inspired me, and to my daughter Christine who kept me working at this manuscript when I wanted to quitand for her careful suggestions.
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Preface
I thought I had planned well for retirement, what I was going to do, where I was going to live, what I was going to live on, and who I wanted to be close to.
Therefore I was surprised when I found myself going through a low-grade depression, in dissonance with myself but also with the world at large. Thirty years earlier, when I became a widow, I had gone through a severe identity crisis. I found extremely difficult the transition from being a member of a couple to being alone in a society that at that time did not make much room for single parents.
Was my present frustration a repeat of that but under different circumstances? Could I, by openly writing about it, dignify the discomfort which I was feeling and which I sensed others in the same circumstances were feeling? Could I turn this border crossing into an account that might be meaningful to others?
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