"Legacy Matters: Completing a Lifetime of Call," an online retreat with Marjory Bankson, January 29 - February 1, 2024

When I wrote Creative Aging, I was thinking about the post-retirement years between 65 and 80. But now, as an octogenarian myself, I realize there is no “retirement” from a sense of call that continues to quicken my life. Although we have been called the “silent generation” (born between 1929 and 1944), I am finding these years are full of questions, quiet joys, surprising strengths, hard choices, and moments of sheer grace. Not so silent anymore, I see us as Bridgers, spanning old and new, still engaged wherever we live and work.

Our focus will be on what to do with the time we have left. If you have felt a sense of call spiraling through your life, then the Legacy Round of Call can be rich with completion and newness as we shed old fears and attend to the work that is truly ours to do. It is a time of integration, of tending relationships and choosing activities that build on the essence we were born with, now shaped by the lived experience that we’ve had.

This retreat will give you some tools to explore the Legacy Round of Call in the company of others on the same path. You can expect time for individual and group reflection in the contemplative framework of Mepkin’s beauty and monastic rhythms of work and prayer.

Marjory Zoet Bankson is an author, working potter, and seasoned spiritual guide from the Church of the Saviour (CoS) community in Washington, DC. Her books, Call to the Soul and Creative Aging present a spiral template for discerning call at every stage of life. Marjory chairs the CoS Council, publishes their quarterly newsletter, Callings, and curates the CoS website
inwardoutward.org. Her sermons are available at seekerschurch.org.