God's 401K

I cringed when I opened my retirement statement last month. Some of my friends even refused to open their statements! I wonder what was God's retirement plan for God's people? I think it is found in the 5th commandment: "honor your father and mother". While many use this to encourage children to obey their parents ( I have done so myself), most scholars see this command indicating that children should care for their parents even when the parents can no longer contribute to the family's economic well-being. The aged should be valued for their life-long efforts and accumulated wisdom. Of course parents should live in a way that honors God and blesses their children. Trying to view this from a biblical perspective, I see three things: 1. Our society should repent of its fixation on youthfulness and move to value the elderly. 2. Parents, like me, need to live in ways that do not take away resources from our children- conserving energy resources and borrowing less would help. 3. We need to recover the biblical sense of community-- the issue is not our well-being individually, but rather the well-beingof all the members of the community. Ultimately there is no good retirement for any until there is retirement for all. That is a tall goal; can we take one step up to that in our lives?