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Do I Still Matter
$14.99Add to cartFind encouragement, community, and inspiration to live confidently and purposefully as you age! Kim Taylor Henry understands the questions and insecurities women face as they shift from no longer middle-aged to not yet elderly. In forty daily readings, she offers biblical insights and practical pointers for thriving through this season with a reliance upon God.
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12 Ways To Age Gracefully
$18.99Add to cartEmbrace the Youthful Spirit at Any Age
As you face the mirror each day, do you meet an older version of yourself? It’s a familiar journey, one where we acknowledge that we’re not as young as we once were, yet not quite ready to embrace being old. But what if there was a way to traverse this path with grace and vitality?
The good news is you can slow time down. By making the right choices, you can look and feel younger. You don’t have to spend a fortune on products either; simply learn the tools needed to move gracefully and joyfully through your senior years. By making simple lifestyle changes, you’ll look and feel better. Discover how to choose vitality over disease; joy over depression; youthfulness over listlessness.
12 Ways to Age Gracefully, will empower you to:
*boost your energy levels,
*improve senior brain health,
*learn how to feel better about yourself,
*develop better stress management, and
*fulfill your God-appointed purpose with renewed vigor.What path will you choose? Discover the secrets to not just feeling better but also looking fantastic as you do so!
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Uncommon Guide To Retirement
$15.99Add to cartHow to have a retirement worth having
There’s a lot of advice about retirement out there. Some try to tell you retirement can and should be a perpetual vacation. Others might speak about retirement as a time for your second career. And there’s some truth in all of it, but there’s a lot wrong with it too.
An Uncommon Guide to Retirement gives you a new way of looking at retirement (that doesn’t reject the good from the old ways of doing things). In it, Jeff Haanen explores ideas like Sabbath, calling, and purpose, and teaches you how to:
-reframe conversations around the body and healthcare decisions
-understand your family system, set boundaries, and leave an intentional legacy
-love God, bear witness to the gospel, and serve your neighbors in retirement
-and more!If you’re retired or thinking about retirement and want a more purpose-filled retirement, this book is for you!
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Aging Gracefully
$7.99Add to cartHow does the Bible instruct us as we grow older? Age gracefully, age wisely, age resolutely to the glory of God.
There are few longings in my heart deeper than this: That God would let me live a godly, purposeful, dignified old age. I mean to encourage us both to age gracefully, to age wisely, to age resolutely to God’s glory.
We are all aging. We are passing through time until we reach the end of our time. We soon learn that greater age brings greater sorrow but also greater joy, especially to those who are in Christ.
To age gracefully we must age in Christ and for Christ. What does it look like to age gracefully? What do we need to be doing now to ensure we finish this race strong?
These are questions for all Christians, young and old. Thankfully the Bible speaks clearly about how to age and how to age well. Join me in exploring what the Bible has to say about age and aging and learn how we can all hear those beautiful words, “well done, good and faithful servant.”
-Tim Challies
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30 Days Of Hope When Caring For Aging Parents
$14.99Add to cartIn 30 Days of Hope When Caring for Aging Parents, author and fellow caregiver Kathy Howard offers the encouragement needed as you strive to care for your parents in a way that pleases God and shows them honor and respect while maintaining their dignity. Through Scripture passages, prayer prompts, and Kathy’s personal stories, be strengthened in the knowledge that the giver of all wisdom will empower you in the daily moments when you are caught between being your parents’ child and their caregiver.
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Aging Well : Living Long Finishing Strong
$5.99Add to cartIntroducing Aging Well, the new book part of the 42 minibook Hope for the Heart series with over one million copies sold. Aging Well shows how you can be a vibrant senior, one with grace and joy, no matter what your physical circumstances. This quick-guide to aging well covers the issues that seniors face, defines the roadblocks and their causes, and shows steps to solution with biblical hope and practical advice.
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Embodied Hope : A Theological Meditation On Pain And Suffering
$25.99Add to cartA Necessary Prelude
Part I: The Struggle
1. Hard Thoughts About God
2. Don’t Answer Why
3. Longing And Lament
4. Embracing Embodiment
5. Questions That Come With PainPart II: The Strangeness Of God
6. One With Us: Incarnation
7. One For Us: Cross
8. Risen And RemainingPart III: Life Together
9. Faith, Hope, And Love
10. Confession And The Other
11. FaithfulAdditional Info
This book will make no attempt to defend God. . . . If you are looking for a book that boasts triumphantly of conquest over a great enemy, or gives a detached philosophical analysis that neatly solves an absorbing problem, this isn’t it. Too often the Christian attitude toward suffering is characterized by a detached academic appeal to God’s sovereignty, as if suffering were a game or a math problem. Or maybe we expect that since God is good, everything will just work out all right somehow. But where then is honest lament? Aren’t we shortchanging believers of the riches of the Christian teaching about suffering? In Embodied Hope Kelly Kapic invites us to consider the example of our Lord Jesus. Only because Jesus has taken on our embodied existence, suffered alongside us, died, and been raised again can we find any hope from the depths of our own dark valleys of pain. As we look to Jesus, we are invited to participate not only in his sufferings, but also in the church, which calls us out of isolation and into the encouragement and consolation of the communal life of Christ. Drawing on his own family’s experience with prolonged physical pain, Kapic reshapes our understanding of suffering into the image of Jesus, and brings us to a renewed understanding of-and participation in-our embodied hope. -
When Did Everybody Else Get So Old
$29.99Add to cartFrom writer and veteran columnist Jennifer Grant comes an unflinching and spirited look at the transitions of midlife. When Did Everybody Else Get So Old? plumbs the physical, spiritual, and emotional changes unique to the middle years: from the emptying nest to the sagging effects of aging. Grant acknowledges the complexities and loss inherent in midlife and tells stories of sustaining disappointment, taking hard blows to the ego, undergoing a crisis of faith, and grieving the deaths not only of illusions but of loved ones. Yet she illuminates the confidence and grace that this season of life can also bring. Magnetic, good-humored, and full of hope in the sustaining power of the Spirit, this is a must-read for anyone facing the flux and flow of middle age.
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Upside Down Living Identity And Aging (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartWe get older every day, and as we age our lives change. In moving from youth to young adulthood, from middle-aged to retiree, we discover that life marches on even as our situations and identities continue to change. This study explores how we can age faithfully and gracefully, embracing ourselves through each phase of life.
Weary of Christian faith wrapped in a flag and trapped in your heart? Tired of faith as usual? Live out your Christian faith through the lens of Jesus. Follow values that seem so counter-cultural they appear to be upside down. Each compelling six-session Upside-Down Living Bible study helps us encounter the teachings of Jesus and wrestle with living out the kingdom here and now. The Bible isn’t a cookbook with solutions for every ethical dilemma, but it helps us raise the right questions, encounter the teachings of Jesus, and discover new ways of faithful living in the world. Ideal for Sunday school or Bible study sessions, each topical study covers a specific theme or issue, and comes with thought-provoking discussion questions and activities. Be inspired and transformed in your faith. Live upside down.
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Making Meaning In Older Age
$14.99Add to cartMaking meaning in life can be challenging at any age. However, making and sustaining meaning in advancing age can be especially difficult due to physiological changes, declining health, and multiple losses. From years of personal and professional experience, and with much warmth, the authors address the multifaceted nature of meaning and offer practical ways in which older adults can find and sustain meaning despite the transitions experienced with advancing age. They also offer ways in which family members can help their aging loved ones in their journey of meaning-making. Bringing together the pieces of one’s life through meaning-making is vital for older adults and offers a precious gift for their loved ones!
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Grace Factor : Makeup Techniques For The Woman Over 50
$18.95Add to cartThis is a book about beauty for women who are aging! In a world that embraces and values youth. You can’t be made beautiful in the way you were when you were younger. But this book can help you appreciate what you have and make the most of what you have with these simple techniques. Every woman will find a WOW moment in the grace Factor
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Loving Later Life
$22.99Add to cartNobody enjoys growing old. We normally fear our own aging and generally do not love old people — they remind us that death is inescapable, the body frail, and social status transitory. In “Loving Later Life” Frits de Lange shows how an ethics of love can acknowledge and overcome the fear of aging and change our attitude toward the elderly.De Lange reframes the biblical love command this way: We must care for the aging other as we care for our own aging selves. We can encourage positive self-love by embracing life as we age, taking good care of our own aging bodies, staying good friends with ourselves, and valuing the last season of life. When we cultivate this kind of self-love, we are released from our aversion to growing old and set free to care about others who are aging — our parents, our relatives, and others in their final season of life.”
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Victory Lap : Growing Old With God
$14.99Add to cartIt happens to all of us if we live long enough. We grow older, with all the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges that implies. But that’s really good news. It means we’re living longer, healthier lives and that we have the opportunity to continue learning and growing and contributing for a long time.
The Victory Lap is about all that. It’s also about exercise, good diet, sleep. About our need for each other, to be involved with life and to prepare for death and the legacy we leave behind.
It’s about treasuring life, feeling gratitude to God and the people around us, adjusting to retirement and filling that extra time well. It’s about being honest and real, with ourselves and other people.
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Launch Your Encore
$20.00Add to cartIn 2011, the first of the 76 million baby boomers–nearly a quarter of the US population–began turning 65. Every day for the next fifteen years, over ten thousand of them will celebrate that birthday. And for the first time in history, this generation will enjoy many years post-career pursing meaning and purpose outside of traditional retirement. What will they do with that time? One thing is for sure: most of them want to find something meaningful. This book lays out the choices to be made to find fulfillment in the encore years of life.
Launch Your Encore is a game plan for life after one’s main-act career. Hans Finzel and Rick Hicks show boomers how to enter this new stage of life poised for personal satisfaction and contributions to society. They offer tested advice on finding new life potential and thriving in these later decades of life. With real-life examples of people who have made the transition from full-time work to volunteering, ministry, or even second careers, Launch Your Encore shows boomers how to make an impact later in life.
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2nd Forgetting : Remembering The Power Of The Gospel During Alzheimers Dise
$22.99Add to cartCharles is 78 years old and there is much he cannot remember. He cannot remember the names of his children, why he lives in a nursing home, or even whether he ate breakfast today. His forgetting causes confusion, and in his fear and uncertainty he sometimes lashes out at those who try to care for him. But when someone reads a favorite Psalm he quickly joins in, reciting each cherished word. When he hears an old hymn of faith, his hand slowly raises and he breathes out each word quietly, his face reflecting a peace that passes all understanding. Alzheimer’s disease has been described as the ‘defining disease’ of the baby boomer generation. Millions of Americans will spend much of their retirement years either caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or experiencing its effects on their lives firsthand. When a person is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, they face great uncertainty, knowing that they can expect to live their remaining years with increasing confusion and progressively greater reliance upon other people to care for them. As the disease advances it seems to overwhelm a person, narrowing their focus and leading them to forget critical truths about the Lord, their life with him, and his promises. Through the personal stories of those affected and the loved ones who care for them, Dr. Benjamin Mast highlights the power of the gospel for those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Filled with helpful, up-to-date information, Dr. Mast answers common questions about the disease and its effect on personal identity and faith as he explores the biblical importance of remembering and God’s commitment to not forget his people. In addition, he gives practical suggestions for how the church can come alongside families and those struggling, offering help and hope to victims of this debilitating disease. If you are a Christian who knows or loves someone with Alzheimer’s disease, have recently been diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s disease, or are a pastor or ministry leader seeking to better understand and minister to people with Alzheimer’s disease this book will encourage you with the good news of God’s faithfulness and the future hope he calls us to.
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Hope Of Glory
$19.99Add to cartThe Hope of Glory is a devotional guide with 57 lessons for older adults and those leading weekly devotionals in retirement homes, assisted living residences, skilled nursing facilities, senior centers or Sunday school classes.
These time-tested devotions will restore a sense of purpose and instill the Gospel message of hope in you or the older adults you know and love-as they remind us all of who we are in God’s eyes: not old and useless, but men and women created in His image who still have a life to live, a story to tell, and a future of eternal glory!
For individual or group use.
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God Me And Being Very Old
$35.99Add to cartDeath and dying are a constant presence in the life and work of care homes. Residents stay, on average, around 20 months (nursing homes) or 36 months(residential/social care homes/assisted living) and die there. The care home is therefore the setting for the last major event of each residents life. Yet these experiences of the very old at the close of their lives have received remarkably little attention either in practice or in research. Nor have churches and theologians given their oldest members anything like the concern for their spiritual wellbeing that they give to the young. The heart of this book will aim to give voice to something similar from some of the oldest old as they reflect on their pilgrimage of faith from the perspective of extreme old age (over 90). In particular the authors explore what this perspective has to say to the other members of their faith communities, particularly in terms of the things that are seen as being of importance and value. The particular significance of reflections arising from the experience of approaching death will be explored. This is one area where religious thinking is often out of step with contemporary imagery and language.
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I Love Growing Older But Ill Never Grow Old
$16.99Add to cartGrowing older is a process. Growing old is a conclusion. If you’re growing older you see some hope because you have perspective and you keep learning. If you’ve grown old, you may cynically think that times have never been as bas as they are now, and that they can only get worse.
This book is about learning how to “make peace with where you are right now.” It’s about learning from the past and then moving past it. It’s about growing – personally, spiritually, and in our relationships with God and with others. If we think properly about growing older we’ll never have to grow old.
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Other Side Of Life
$10.95Add to cartHealthy Life Press
Drawing on biblical examples and his 60-plus years of pastoral experience, Rev. Biebel helps older (and younger) adults understand God’s view of aging and the rich life available to everyone who seeks a deeper relationship with God as they age. Rev. Biebel explains how to: Identify God’s ongoing plan for your life; Rely on faith to manage the anxieties of aging; Form positive, supportive relationships; Cultivate patience; Cope with new technologies; Develop spiritual integrity; Understand the effects of dementia; Develop a Christ-centered perspective of aging.
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Pilgrimage Into The Last Third Of Life
$15.99Add to cartFrom age 60 to 90 and beyond, people face a time of special challenges and opportunities to draw closer to God. This book offers readers Bible-based meditations that address 7 tasks essential to living the last third of life with purpose. Inspiring topics covered include facing limitations, continuing spiritual growth, and leaving a legacy.
Helpful reflection questions make this book suitable for group use or for personal growth.
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Spirituality Of Caregiving
$9.99Add to cartYou already know that caregiving is hard work and is sometimes unappreciated, but have you ever considered that it isn’t easy to be the care receiver? In this encouraging book Henri Nouwen communicates warmth, respect, and compassion as he shares heartfelt insights on what it means to be a caregiver and to be cared for. His wisdom will change how you approach the caregiving relationship. A must read for every caregiver!
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Finishing Well : The Adventure Of Life Beyond Halftime
$19.99Add to cartAuthor Bob Buford called them “code breakers.” They are people age 40 and older who have pioneered the art of finishing well in these modern times, and who can teach us to do the same, starting today.
Buford sought out 60 of these trailblazers-including Peter Drucker, Roger Staubach, Jim Collins, Ken Blanchard, and Dallas Willard-and has recorded their lively conversations in these pages so that they can serve as “mentors in print” for all of us.
“Twenty years from now,” Buford writes, “the rules for this second adulthood as a productive season of life may be better known. But for now, we’re out across the frontier breaking new ground.”
Buford gives you a chance to sit at the feet of these pioneers and learn the art of finishing well so you can shift into a far more fulfilling life now, no matter your age, and pursue a lasting significance that will be a legacy for future generations.
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Parent Talk : The Nine Conversations To Have With Your Aging Loved Ones
$26.99Add to cartAre You Ready? Each year, millions of Americans come face-to-face with the daunting task of providing for the care of an aging parent. Unfortunately, many find themselves ill-informed and unprepared. This reversal of roles, from care receivers to care providers, is often filled with conflicting emotions that are extremely tough to cope with amidst this enormous responsibility. Moreover, clashing opinions can quickly leave siblings and other family members at an impasse during a time when unity is crucial. For these newly challenged care providers, the tide has turned. For those who don’t know what signs to look for, this can happen without notice. As almost all of us will face this dilemma at some point, Parent Talk is a must read source of expertise and information for any adult child. Throughout this book, the author draws on his years of experience in senior healthcare to assist you in anticipating your parent’s decline, understanding the best care options, and making sound decisions. Come gain the invaluable insights revealed through The Nine Conversations as you become your loved one’s keeper.
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Parent Talk : The Nine Conversations To Have With Your Aging Loved Ones
$16.99Add to cartAre You Ready? Each year, millions of Americans come face-to-face with the daunting task of providing for the care of an aging parent. Unfortunately, many find themselves ill-informed and unprepared. This reversal of roles, from care receivers to care providers, is often filled with conflicting emotions that are extremely tough to cope with amidst this enormous responsibility. Moreover, clashing opinions can quickly leave siblings and other family members at an impasse during a time when unity is crucial. For these newly challenged care providers, the tide has turned. For those who don’t know what signs to look for, this can happen without notice. As almost all of us will face this dilemma at some point, Parent Talk is a must read source of expertise and information for any adult child. Throughout this book, the author draws on his years of experience in senior healthcare to assist you in anticipating your parent’s decline, understanding the best care options, and making sound decisions. Come gain the invaluable insights revealed through The Nine Conversations as you become your loved one’s keeper.
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Alzheimers Depression And Dementia
$24.99Add to cartWhat would you do if your spouse, or anyone close to you, suddenly developed Alzheimer’s, Depression, and Dementia? Can you imagine how this would change your life-and the life of the one you love? This book tells how one couple faced this situation. It started as a daily journal with the idea that it would be very private and a short-term journal till his wife came home where they could live a normal life again. She was in a hospital first and then in a nursing home. She was away from home for almost ten months. Her husband took her out from the nursing home as often as possible. Sometimes they were able to spend a few hours at their home. Then she was able to go home where she lived with her husband for a little over two and a half years. This was a total of almost three and a half years from the beginning of her illness till the date of her death. D L Bennett, who compiled these notes, says he just wrote it like they lived it.
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Joy Of Retirement
$19.99Add to cartLife after work no longer conjures up images of couples wandering the malls, playing golf, and taking endless Caribbean cruises. As baby boomers reach their 50s and 60s, they are redefining what it means to retire. Many of them are still choosing to work or create a whole new life entirely. What they crave is vitality, joy, and meaning in their lives. Author David Borchard has been helping adults rejuvenate their careers and lives for 30 years. In The Joy of Retirement, he shows readers how to reinvent themselves and achieve the kind of fulfillment and meaning in their lives they have always dreamed of. Now, readers can start crafting their future and discovering their passions with advice on topics such as: * finding new interests that make the most of their unique talents * planning their lifestyle at 50+ * assessing what transitions they are ready and willing to make * defining priorities and goals * establishing their criteria for success * mastering the seven steps to maintaining vitality Revealing and hopeful, this book will reshape how people look at the next phase of their lives.
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Some Things You Just Have To Live With
$17.95Add to cartEverybody figures it out sooner or later: Even in a Botox world that promises eternal youth, some things-from aches and pains to wrinkles, from menopause to the empty nest-you just have to live with. But despite the challenges, those who are reaching middle age-yesterday’s Baby Boomers-might not want to turn back the clock. Instead, as their bodies change and their priorities shift, they’re looking to cull wisdom from their experience and find spiritual meaning in their re-examined lives. In Some Things You Just Have to Live With, author Barbara Cawthorne Crafton explores the “spilled milk” of our lives, the physical changes our bodies endure, and the new and energizing purpose we can discover by plunging into the middle of life in a deeper-and sometimes mystifying-relationship with God. A wonderful storyteller, Crafton writes with humor and pathos rather than a heavy hand, allowing readers to see themselves and their own lives in the unfolding pages. Some Things You Just Have to Live With is a source of inspiration-and smiles-to those navigating the turbulent waters of the middle of life.
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Pastoral Care To The Aged
$14.95Add to cartHere, in handy pocket or purse-sized format, is a nuts-and-bolts guide to visiting the elderly in a variety of settings, to offer pastoral care and spiritual comfort. Kirkwood offers readers a thorough overview of the aging process, including the challenges of dementia and a look at the unique emotional and spiritual needs of the elderly. This book offers help to those who want to make visits to the elderly more meaningful.
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Growing Older And Wiser (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartYou can’t change the fact that you are getting older.
And, indeed, you may not want to! Age brings many gifts and opportunities for continued growth. In nine study sessions, Dale and Sandy Larsen help you discover the Bible’s perspective on aging. You’ll discover how God can effectively and powerfully use those who have grown wiser with the passing years.
This LifeGuide Bible Study in IVP’s revised format features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, as well as a new “Now or Later” section following each session to help you act on what you learn.
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Aging Spirituality And Religion Volume 1
$49.00Add to cartNew! The first such comprehensive collection of articles on all aspects of gerontology and faith. Outstanding contributors from a variety of disciplines make this a potential library reference for chaplains, health-care workers, psychologists, etc.
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Aging Spirituality And Religion Volume 2
$49.00Add to cartAging Spirituality, and Religion, Volume 1 published in 1995, provided the sociological, psychological, and theological perspectives for examining the ways in which spiritually and religion are experienced by aging persons in our society. As such, it provided the theoretical foundations for considering aging, spirituality and religion. This book picks up where volume 1 left off–with practical advice and tools for ministry with the aging in a variety of settings. Gerontological and theological perspectives undergird the practical guidance and a final section treats of the unique ethical issues involved in ministry with the aging.
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Women At Midlife (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartMidlife is a time of transitions, some welcome and others not so welcome. Thankfully, the Bible provides principles and guidance for dealing with difficult times–midlife included. In these studies, you’ll tap into that wisdom and learn how you can experience God’s grace today and move forward with confidence.
Whether you’re struggling with the challenges of the present, mired down by mistakes in your past, or excited about the prospects of the future, you’ll benefit from these important questions and life-enhancing answers for “Women at Midlife.
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When Christians Retire
$14.99Add to cartIn this book, Dwight Hervey Small will help you cope with the adjustments you will inevitably face with retirement and then turn expectantly to the exciting possibilities ahead. Rest assured, God has a plan for you in retirement as He did in your youth, and He waits to make it known.
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Faithful Living Faithful Dying
$21.95Add to cartWhat do faithful living and faithful dying mean as we near life’s end? With all the technology and choices available to us today, making decisions about the end of life grows ever more difficult. As a result of all the theological and ethnical issues that have arisen around the dying process in recent years, the 72nd General Convention of the Episcopal Church created a task force to study and responds to the broad range of theological, ethical, pastoral and policy issues that are generated by the need to provide loving and fitting care at the end of life.
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Virtues Of Aging
$15.00Add to cart“We are not alone in our worry about both the physical aspect of aging and the prejudice that exists toward the elderly, which is similar to racism or sexism. What makes it different is that the prejudice also exists among those of us who are either within this group or rapidly approaching it. When I have mentioned the title of this book to a few people, most of them responded, ‘Virtues? What could possibly be good about growing old?’ The most obvious answer, of course, is to consider the alternative to aging. But there are plenty of other good answers–many based on our personal experiences and observations. “
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Art Of Growing Old
$16.00Add to cartThis book is for all adults interested in increasing satisfaction in their lives. Each chapter moves from theory to practice with thought-provoking questions, specific suggestions, and clear illustrations of how the various tasks of aging can be accomplished. The author emphasizes the importance of setting goals, making plans, and enacting those plans as the practical means to moving into the last decades of life with a sense of expectation, grace, and fulfillment.
