When you say you can, you open yourself to other possibilities, new opportunities, people and creative ways to find solutions to problems. When you say you can’t, the doors close because you’ve locked them behind you.

It’s really our choice.

My wife and I plus our ever faithful administrative assistant, Linda Wright, who works for both us in our various endavors on a less than full-time basis, also pitches in to help us with my mother-in-law and her dog, too.

Life does get complicated. For my wife, who is a full-time pastor with an earned doctorate, she would say that “it is all about relationships.” And, I am sure she’s right.

For me, it’s also about balancing a job or career in the process, too. In the future, a growing number of companies will offer all sorts of assitance dealing with eldercare issues, including eldercare on the premises of mid-size and large corporations and at larger government installations.

This option will increasingly become a part of an overall corporate benefit plan and will become more and more important, as our population continues to age.