We cannot really please everybody! Everywhere we go, we find rejectionists, oppositionists, antis, and pros along the way. More often, we cannot really impose others the way we wanted things to happen because there’s somebody out there that will oppose our will and dampen our enthusiasm. But we don’t need to feel sorry about that. We should not feel neglected in our old age, because we are all governed by the ‘Law of the Opposites’. What is this law? This is a law of nature, a universal behavior that not one of us can change it because God designed this law to make His creation beautiful, continuous and eternal. Sir Isaac Newton is correct in his theory that, ‘In every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.’ I presumed this famous scientist knew about the ‘Law of the Opposites’. For sure we are all aware about this law but, sometimes we just don’t care to apply this law in our daily lives so that we end up in troubles in effect. Why are there male and female, rich and poor, good and bad, beautiful and ugly, young and old, land and sea, rain and fire, and day and night? These are just few of the many opposing things God has designed for us. And Saint Paul knew it when he wrote, “Do not compare yourself with others. For always there will be greater and lesser persons than you are.”
It’s about time now to change our perceptions in life as older persons, as senior citizens of this world. We have to realize that every one of us is driven by our own wheels so that we traveled each in the directions of our own choices. I travel my own way as an engineer, and you traveled your own as God’s church workers. It so happens that our wheels become worn out now from the long distance we traveled, from the various painful and solid experiences we met along the way, from the long and fruitful service we rendered to our respective professions, and to our ministry. It’s time for us to retire now! I repeat, retire now! Meaning, we have to put on new tires in our life. We have to re-invigorate the youthfulness we once had thru close association, reawaken our many interests before and find our ways towards another fruitful direction that can make us happy and worthy as human beings! We should not stop! We have to go on, travel as far as we can, fly as high as we can, and enjoy the life God has given us. After all, retirement is just an end to one lap of our choices. But always remember, there are still more options for us to choose from to live a happy and fruitful life as a retired person no matter what we are, who we are, and where we are.
To the president of this young organization of the olds, Rev. Henry B. Aguilan, his better half Mrs. Abigail Reyes Aguilan, officers and members, and to everybody who find their time attending this noble endeavor of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Southern Tagalog Conference, accept my warm morning greetings to you all and God bless.
(A keynote address delivered by Engr. Elias P. Bitancor on the occasion of a consultation seminar of the UCCP/STC-Retired Church Workers & Spouses Association held in Lucena City on November 18, 2006, 9:45 A.M.)
It’s about time now to change our perceptions in life as older persons, as senior citizens of this world. We have to realize that every one of us is driven by our own wheels so that we traveled each in the directions of our own choices. I travel my own way as an engineer, and you traveled your own as God’s church workers. It so happens that our wheels become worn out now from the long distance we traveled, from the various painful and solid experiences we met along the way, from the long and fruitful service we rendered to our respective professions, and to our ministry. It’s time for us to retire now! I repeat, retire now! Meaning, we have to put on new tires in our life. We have to re-invigorate the youthfulness we once had thru close association, reawaken our many interests before and find our ways towards another fruitful direction that can make us happy and worthy as human beings! We should not stop! We have to go on, travel as far as we can, fly as high as we can, and enjoy the life God has given us. After all, retirement is just an end to one lap of our choices. But always remember, there are still more options for us to choose from to live a happy and fruitful life as a retired person no matter what we are, who we are, and where we are.
To the president of this young organization of the olds, Rev. Henry B. Aguilan, his better half Mrs. Abigail Reyes Aguilan, officers and members, and to everybody who find their time attending this noble endeavor of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Southern Tagalog Conference, accept my warm morning greetings to you all and God bless.
(A keynote address delivered by Engr. Elias P. Bitancor on the occasion of a consultation seminar of the UCCP/STC-Retired Church Workers & Spouses Association held in Lucena City on November 18, 2006, 9:45 A.M.)
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