Margot Käßmann is one of the most well-known church personalities in Germany. In June 2018, she celebrated her 60th birthday and at the same time, she retired in order, as she puts it herself, to enjoy her best years. Margot Käßmann encourages women to approach life after their mid-fifties with determination and joy. For that is the time to build on experience and simultaneously dare to do something new. Smile. Continue. The best-selling author knows, »I no longer have to get worked up about everything. And many things, I can serenely accept. Of course from your mid-fifties, some things aren’t as good as before and you can’t sugar-coat everything. It’s time to say goodbye to some cherished habits, but also to some long standing companions«. Margot Käßmann writes about sustaining friendship, family and being alone. She talks about good habits that endure, change, personal happiness and failure. She is glad to have the freedom to call a spade a spade. She accepts her declining strengths and names sources of strength. In this way, the book makes readers want to set out into their best years full of hope.
