We enter life with no ability to control. As we grow, we acquire more and more faculty to control. If our life takes its natural course and we age into the sunset years of life, we gradually lose our ability to control. Finally, we will leave this life having the same capacity to control as when we entered, little to none. Join us as Matt Kaufmann discusses this life curve with his father, Denny Kaufmann.

• Control, the ability to rule, make choices, make determination in our surroundings and direct people, transitions over the span of life.

• The transition is a function of release.

• Ease of release is a function of confidence in the predecessor and ability to live with God into the future.

• Release to the predecessor is helped with a view that God is in control and uses people separate from us.

• The ability to live with God into the future is helped by learning to find satisfaction in his presence apart from the satisfaction that the power of control affords.

• Living healthily will require that we know where we are on the life curve and live accordingly.