Unique Christian Gifts for Retirement: The Day-of-Rest Psalm Says “Still”

Read Time:8 Minute, 55 Second The card has gone around the office twice. Somebody ordered the cake. The gift is the part nobody has figured out, because every retirement gift on the shelf says the same thing. A clock. A plaque with the years stamped on it. A mug about golf. They all point backward, and they thank a person for what they were. That is the problem with most unique Christian gifts for retirement too. A verse plaque for the mantel still counts the years. The person walking out that door is quietly asking a different question. Not “was I good at my job?” but “what am I now?” The best gift answers that question, and the Bible answers it in a strange place: the one psalm written for a day off. The Monday After Is the Day the Gift Is For Retirement has a Friday and a Monday. Friday has the cake. Monday has an alarm that doesn’t go off and a phone that doesn’t ring, and nobody needs an answer by noon.

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