Border CrossingA Spiritual Journey by Katie Funk Wiebe |
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Does retirement mean sitting in a rocker and waiting for death? Or desperately using cosmetics, plastic surgery, and youthful clothing styles in an effor to stay young?
Katie Funk Wiebe says a resounding no to both attitudes. In this book she talks about the inner journey of aging. Wiebe speaks honestly, faithfully, and movingly about the transition to retirement and how it compares with life's earlier "border crossings."
The ability of the first edition of Border Crossing to combine lively autobiography with commentary helped it became a classic resource on aging—and winner of a Silver Angel honorable mention. Now this second edition, published under the DreamSeeker Books imprint of Pandora Press U.S. (the original name of Cascadia Publishing House) provides a new foreword and preface, revised original chapters, and two new and poignant ones telling of Wiebe’s journey through the death of her daughter and of recent reflections on and experiences of being "old."
"As one who has crossed the border of retirement, I find Wiebe's book is a real gift. She helps all of us in our later years to realize deep water and drowning are not the same thing and that we can face these new depths with courage and hope. Her creed for older adults needs to be read (and practiced) by all of us who have crossed the border."
— Richard L. Morgan is Author of No Wrinkles on the Soul and Remembering Your Story, as well as Editor of AGEnda for the Presbyterian Church
"Wiebe explores the complex ties between aging, culture, faith, and practice with perceptive language and an uncommon respect for all that is human. This gentle and compassionate work is undergirded by erudition, humor, and inordinate awe for the God she serves. As is true for the best memoirs, readers will come away hearing Wiebe but also hearing themselves."
— Jerry VanSpronsen, Disability Advocate and Professor