retirement
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52-Week Women’s Retirement Devotional: Awaken to Your Identity, Flourish in God’s Love, Strengthen Your Purpose & Rediscover a Joyful, Radiant Life
A cut flower looks alive and slowly dies. A planted tree can look still and quietly gets stronger. If your retirement feels like your first, Psalm 1:3 is your invitation to the second. The book, 52-Week Women’s Retirement Devotional: Awaken to Your Identity, Flourish in God’s Love, Strengthen Your Purpose & Rediscover a Joyful, Radiant Life, by Susie J. Owens, features a proven 4-phase process that can help you: Awaken – Remember your identity in Christ and your value beyond work and productivity. Rebuild – Process the emotional and spiritual shifts of retirement and changing relationships. Strengthen – Grow closer to God after retirement and step into new rhythms of joy and purpose. Legacy – Invest…
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The Legacy Letter
A shoebox of old photos, corners soft and worn. The truth of a tough year, told with a smile because she survived. A handwritten letter tucked into a Bible she’s used for thirty years. Stories of rescue that we never knew she carried. Inheritance isn’t just about what she leaves in a will; it’s the legacy of faith she’s building right now in her quietest moments. The scent of fresh rain on a path she finally has time to walk. Mercies that are new every single morning, just like she is. For the mom who spent decades rushing out the door— give her back her mornings. This is a year…
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The Paycheck Was Never The Source
“You may say in your heart, ‘The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.’ But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth,” Deuteronomy 8:17–18 Even during the most productive years of your life, the real source of provision was never your job, your salary, or even your abilities. Those were the instruments. The power behind them came from God. When we live with open hands rather than clenched ones, we are acknowledging what Scripture teaches: God has always been the provider. Work, opportunity, and income have been the tools He used in certain seasons. The source…
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A Retirement Devotional to Help Your Flourish
The retirement party is lovely. The card gets signed. Someone brings a cake. You smile, and you mean it, and then you drive home and wake up the next morning with nowhere to be and a calendar so empty it almost taunts you. That Tuesday is where this book begins. Not because retirement is hard — though sometimes it is — but because the woman standing in that wide-open space deserves more than a checklist of hobbies and a reminder to stay hydrated. She deserves to know who she actually is when the title gets handed back. Losing a career is a kind of identity surgery. Even when you chose…
