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> Do Not Forsake Me When My Strength Fails
>> Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Occasion: Retirement

Lord, I cleared out my desk today.
Handed in my badge.
Walked to my car with my box,
and without anywhere I have to be tomorrow.

I thought I'd feel free.
Mostly I feel unmoored.

Don't cast me off in my old age.
But that's not really my fear.
My fear is smaller and stranger:
that I don't know who I am
without the job that once told me.

Show me what You always saw in me
beneath the title.
The part that was never on a badge.

Give me new work for these hands,
even if no one pays for it.
Give me a reason to get up
that isn't just a paycheck.

I'm not finished, Lord.
I've just changed seasons.

Amen.