Many readers will buy Jane Fonda’s latest book, “Prime Time: Love, health, sex, fitness, friendship, spirit?making the most of all of your life”, to see how a privileged member of Hollywood royalty has coped with aging, and they will get what they paid for.… Read the rest
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Faith, Spirituality and Aging – Jennifer L. Brower
With advancing age, what happens that may lead to a rethinking, a re-evaluation of one’s life and what has guided a person religiously or spiritually?
Very simply, the aging process — the experience of moving into and through different developmental phases — affects the spirit and therefore one’s spiritual life.… Read the rest
Billy Graham – on the spirituality of aging….
Billy Graham, arguably America’s most famous Christian evangelist and preacher, is 93 years old as I write this.
Graham’s birthday comes just after the release of his newest book, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well.
In his book – which covers subjects such as spirituality, the struggles and pleasures of growing old, as well as advice on financial planning – Rev.… Read the rest
Midlife Transition Rev. Mike Stubbs, Special to The Gazette
One of the topics not discussed much in churches today is midlife transitions. I am talking about males in particular. I don’t feel qualified to talk about women. That topic is still a mystery to me.
Midlife transition happens to men.… Read the rest
from Howard Thurman’s Inward Journey
“When I Awake, I Am Still with Thee”
In all the waking hours
The Tentacle of Time
Give channel to each living thing:
The bird on wing;
The mole moving in darkness underground;
The cricket chanting its evening song;
The primeval whale sporting in chilly seas,
or floating noiselessly in turbulent waters;
In mountain crevice or sprawling meadow
The delicate beauty of color-stained flower
or fragile leaf;
High above the timber line
The sprig of green dares wind and snow;
In the barren parchedness of desert waste
The juiceless shrub and waterlogged cactus;
High in the treetop the green-pearled fruit
of olive mistletoe,
and the soft gray stillness of creeping moss;
The infant, the growing child,
The stumbling adolescent, the young adult,
The man full blown or stooped with years;
The Tentacles of Time
Give channel to each living thing.… Read the rest
