Aging Is Not What You’ve Been Told
Most of us were handed a story about aging long before we ever questioned it.
It sounds like this:
Loss. Decline. Irrelevance. Something to resist, fix, or fear.
But what if that story is incomplete?
Spirituality of Aging
Interview on Embracing the Aging Process
This is an interview I did with Barbie Gummin of TLC5. It introduces my upcoming book, Embracing the Aging Process. Look for it soon.… Read the rest
From [Exploring Life] by Brian Alger
The Spirituality of Aging
A spirituality of aging is a way of being that reflects a deep, authentic, and compelling engagement in understanding and merging with the essence of life. A spiritual response to life is simultaneously intellectual, emotional, and biological: spirituality seeks to evoke positive states of being in which we embraced by an urgency of wonder that shelters us with deep feelings of significance, unity, awe, contentment, acceptance, and awareness.… Read the rest
Fear of Aging – by Keith Wommack
What we fear can only keep us in captivity
Keith Wommack, In Your Words
Recently, when asked, “What can fear do to you?” I was reminded of two experiences.
The first started with me asking a Sunday school class of first-graders: “What would you say if someone wanted you to pray for them?”… Read the rest
The Process of Aging and the Stages of Spiritual Development
Many years ago I learned about stages of spiritual development. I’ve since discovered that many different spiritual teachers and teachings have different names for what seems quite similar to me. Because I spend so much time thinking about the process of aging and the spirituality of aging, I began to wonder if we experience this process differently depending upon the stage of spiritual development that we are in. … Read the rest