Come Let Us Age!

Content

In this unique book, Wanda Nash, a well-established writer on spirituality in her late seventies, reflects on growing old with faith and a positive spirit. This compelling invitation to grow old boldly - full of her own experiences and insights - includes Wanda's reflection on her encounter later in life with terminal cancer, and her thoughts on coping with the daily challenges of living a Christian life in her illness and in ageing. Demonstrating a profound sense of the value and purposefulness of 'old age', the author's indomitable spirit is matched only by her fresh vision of the love of God in Jesus Christ.

Contents

• 1 The preliminary scene
• 2 What is old age for?
• 3 Would God like an empty space which only he can refill?
• 4 How on earth can we do this?
• 5 Some of the consequences of being old
• 6 Some conclusions about being very old

• 7 God laughing
• 8 The magnitude of God
• 9 Alongside the pain and the hurt
• 10 Feeling awful and playing
• 11 Jesus and optimism
• 12 Jesus and his needs
• 13 Being pierced, but still being welcoming

• 14 Being old and ill: where is God?
• 15 Awareness of God's presence in illnes
• 16 Using illness: ministry through illness
• 17 Coping with illness in order to use it
• 18 The best is yet to come
• 19 Finale