Ending Well
This book began with the basics: maintaining health, coping with stress, living in a time-oriented culture, having realistic expectations, saying goodbye, and reentering your host culture. Those activities are so basic that they are relevant as you end your missionary career. In addition, you will continue to face the everyday challenges as well as challenges that may become problems.
However, relationships with the family members and with others tend to change. As you near retirement in a day when many people live far into their eighties and nineties, you may face the question of what to do about aging parents as well as your own retirement. As you become older, look for things indicating whether you are becoming better or becoming bitter. Remember that you have the choice of which you become. May you age gracefully and with joy!