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Music We tend to think of our lives in terms of the work we do our careers, if you will.

We also tend to think of our lives as coming in those phases where you're a young person preparing for that career

and then you pursue that career, then you exceed in that career, then that career is over and

you're retired. Is that a good way of thinking about ourselves and about the course of our lives?

Welcome back to Issues, Etc. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to discuss Christian vocation

and retirement, Pastor Larry Peters. He's a recently retired pastor in the Lutheran Church,

Missouri, you said, an author of a recent column titled What Has Not Changed? Larry, welcome back.

It's good to be with you, Todd.

Since you retired in January, what's been the biggest change in your life?

I'm struggling to figure that out.

I guess the first thing is I don't wear a watch as often as I used to.

That's a pretty big change for me.

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