Table of Contents
Foreword 13
Preface 2013 15
I Life Begins Every Day 19
Meditation Titles
Growing Older, But Not Old
The Potter's Purpose for Old Clay
Redirected, Not Retired
Life Begins at 75
Hoeing to the End of the Row
Claiming What Is Ours
God's Love Is like a Grandparent's
What Do We Leave Our Grandchildren?
She Had Many Grandchildren
Who Wants to Be Young Again?
Lamentations Went Out
II Tasks of Aging 43
Meditation Titles
Saying Goodbyes
Clearing Out the Clutter
Remembering to Forget
Holding On to Memories
Ironing with the Hottest Iron
Creating Your Own Space
Not Expecting Too Much
Balancing This Free Time
Avoiding Old-Age Temptations
Affirming Our Third Age
III Old-Age Vulnerabilities 65
Meditation Titles
We Don't Want to Be a Burden
We Are Vulnerable
Old-Age Dropouts
We Triumph over Our Troubles Old-Age Depression
Presbyopia and Presbycusis
Old Scars
Knocked Down, But Not Knocked Out!
Who Catches Us When We Fall?
Shut In, But Not Shut Out
The Relationship Heals
IV. No Use Denying It 89
Meditation Titles
Not Needed Anymore
Where We Do Not Want to Go
A Displaced Person
Fears May Be Liars
No Substitute for Experience
The Age with Nothing to Do
On the Death of an Aged Friend
Acquainted with Grief
On the Death of a Parent
And the Life Everlasting
V Keeping the spirit renewed 111
Meditation Titles
Learning to Pray in Old Age
She Did What She Could
No Halloween Masks in a Nursing Home
Golden Flecks amid the Ashes
Grandchildren Renew Our Lives
The Might of a Widow
Walk to Sunrise
Fragments Can Be Valuable
Our Disappointments, God's Appointments
The Beauty of a Mature Soul
VI Ultimate Thoughts 133
Meditation Titles
God's Medicare
All That Matters
Now We See Clearly
How Old Are You?
Stir Up the Gift of God within You
New Meaning from an Old Creed
Wounded Healers
Never Too Old to Learn
Love Is the Last Word
Saving the Best until Last
Index of Passages from the Bible 155