Aging Is an Attitude: Positive Ways to Look at Getting Older

by Murphey, Cecil

• ISBN13: 9780899571577
• ISBN10: 0899571573
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-30
• Publisher: Living Ink Books

Summary

Ponders the purpose of aging and wonders what God has in store for those he allows to age--since productivity and making money are no longer a focus, those of retirement age are free to discover that God has distinctive lessons for them to learn and share with the younger generation. Original.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Enjoying a New Place	ix
1. Facing the Fear	1	(6)
2. Embracing Age	7	(5)
3. An Older Person?	12	(5)
4. Answering the Hard Question	17	(7)
5. Depending on Others	24	(10)
6. Trusting Myself	34	(8)
7. Who Chooses?	42	(6)
8. Seeing the Future	48	(7)
9. How Old Are You?	55	(7)
10. Sharing What We Know	62
11. Reconnecting	7	(71)
12. Making Faces	78	(7)
13. No Longer Listening	85	(8)
14. Valuing Life	93	(8)
15. Changing	101	(7)
16. Picking up the Pieces	108	(10)
17. Today Be Not All Day	118	(6)
18. The Worst of Times and the Best of Times	124	(6)
19. Excluded and Invisible	130	(8)
20. Handling Problems	138	(6)
21. Stuck at an Age	144	(8)
22. Time for Me	152	(8)
23. More-so Attitude	160	(6)
24. Let's Return Thanks	166	(7)
25. Paying Back	173	(7)
26. Who Decides When I'm Old?	180	(7)
27. Facing Death	187	(6)
Notes	193