And Abram Journeyed On

Abraham did not get his great calling at twenty-five. He got it at seventy-five. He moved, built altars in a land that wasn't his, argued with God, made the same mistake twice, buried his wife, planted a tree, and kept walking until he was "old and well along in years."

And Abram Journeyed On is a 30-day devotional through the life of Abraham for the retirement years: for people counting down to their last day of work, people who retired last month and are still waking up at the old time, and people fifteen years in who face new questions about health, money, moving, and what comes next. It is also for spouses learning to share a house all day, for adult children, and for churches. Along the way you'll follow Verlon, who carried the mail on a rural Kansas route for thirty-eight years and has just moved seven hundred miles to be near his grandchildren in southern New Mexico, and Chelo, an 83-year-old retired first-grade teacher and widow who says she flunked her own first year of retirement. Their Thursday-morning coffees on her patio carry them through lost structure, a marriage rearranged, a tempting "investment" from an old friend, a scam call that sounds like a grandson, his wife's mini-stroke, hearing aids, a son drinking again, a mother in hospice, a funeral, and a long, faithful walk.