Advance Comment
Border Crossing

"With luck, you and I will get old enough to approach the boundary of a new land – a ‘border crossing.’ What then—cribbage, soft food, and shuffleboard? Or time to reflect wisely on the road thus far?

"Where will you find meaning after you’ve climbed down the ladder, your main work in life finished? How do the late (or extra) innings fit into God’s plan?

"Here’s how to see yourself as ‘still on a journey, not coasting’ to the proving ground of your life’s convictions and commitments. See the aging process through the lens of Katie’s life. Let her give you a headstart on how to put it all together and cross this border with grace, maybe even with joy.

"Baby Boomers, don’t kid yourself. You’re not too old for this book. I’m one of you, and I wasn’t."
—Wally Kroeker, editor, MEDA’s Marketplace magazine

"To one who has crossed the border of retirement and plunged from the shallow shores of earlier retirement into the deep waters of later retirement, Wiebe's book is a real gift. She has helped all of us in our later years to realize deep water and drowning are not the same thing, and we can face these new depths with courage and hope. Of special value is her new chapter, "Night Word," which will resonate with any older person who faces diminishment and loss. 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. She does so with perceptive use of 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

" With Wiebe we cross the border from her career to retirement and are blessed as she weaves in glimpes of where she has been and wonderings of what she might become."
—Elbert C. Cole, Executive Director and Founder, Shepherd’s Centers of America, in the Foreword

"Widowed at 38 and retired at 65, Katie Funk Wiebe views life from a mature perspective. Drawing on her own experiences and a wide range of other resources, she has designed a map for the journey of life.—one useful to anyone between the ages of 16 and 100."
—Daniel Hertzler, author of the memoir, A Little Left of Center (DreamSeeker Books/Pandora Press US, 2000) and instructor for Unit II, Pastoral Studies Distance Education.

Border Crossing orders:

• Cascadia Publishing House/Pandora Press U.S. Online Order Form
• Cascadia, Herald Press, and other order options
• Credit card orders through Border Crossing page, MennoLink Online Bookstore