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About this book
What Remains: Preparing the Soul for Retirement explores retirement not simply as the end of employment but as a profound human and spiritual transition. Many people enter retirement carrying unresolved questions about identity, usefulness, purpose, loss, aging, and what remains after decades of responsibility and service. This book invites readers to reflect honestly on those questions with compassion, humility, and hope.
Drawing from years of pastoral ministry, disaster response, caregiving, and conversations with people navigating major life transitions, G. C. Smith examines the emotional and spiritual realities that often accompany retirement: grief over changing roles, the loss of structure and recognition, loneliness, exhaustion, unfinished memories, and the search for meaning beyond productivity.
Rather than offering simplistic advice about "successful aging," the book encourages readers to prepare the soul as carefully as they prepare finances or schedules. It is ultimately a reflective and hopeful invitation to discover that human worth does not disappear when careers end, and that purpose, connection, compassion, and spiritual depth can continue unfolding long after one's formal work is finished.
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Topic
Theology & ReligionSubtopic
Developmental PsychologyTable of contents
- Title Page
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: When the Days Open Up
- Chapter 2: Who Are You Without Your Work?
- Chapter 3: Stepping Off the Ladder
- Chapter 4: Living With Limits
- Learning a Different Way of Being
- Being With Others Differently
- Living With the End in Mind
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
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