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The Way I Have Walked
Job 31 1-12


A year after my first wife Ann died, I was out to dinner with a group that included a former colleague whose wife had died a while previously. He had remarried a year or so later, and I was intrigued to hear the story. He began from the aftermath of his wife’s death, when another colleague who is a professor of pastoral counseling had told him, “Don’t marry someone young enough to be your granddaughter.” The story made us laugh, but it was sage advice, in that one sees pictures from time to time of eighty-year-old men who have married twenty-five- year-old women, and one wonders how they overcome the disparity in life experience and expectations. (If you are part of a happily married couple with such an age difference, congratulations; there are exceptions to every rule)...

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