Declining Yet Shining



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The Bible Speaks

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Declining Yet Shining
The Bible Speaks to our Later Years

By Richard L. Morgan

This book shows how the Bible offers timeless wisdom for any age, but special guidance for older people. Author Richard Morgan has chosen 120 Bible readings, in tribute to Moses – recorded as living 120 years when he died - and written a series of reflections of Bible characters whose experience of aging speaks across the centuries to us today. For the first time in history many people will live to be a hundred or older. Medical science has extended our years but it cannot tell the meaning of these bonus years. Meditations in this book offer the wisdom of men and women like Abraham and Sarah, Caleb, Elizabeth and Zechariah, Simeon and Anna, all older people who offer wisdom of how to make our later years blessed and successful. This is a book for older people for meditation, for Bible study classes, and for all who have yet to face the later years, but wonder how to make them blessed and full.

What Our Readers Say

The Bible Speaks to Our Later Years is a deep well of Biblical counsel and pastoral reflection on the experience of aging. As he always does, author Richard Morgan captures the essence of the issues that concern older adults and transforms them into opportunities for spiritual and psychological growth. Of particular usefulness is the sensitivity to the differing of the well elderly, those who are well and able. But it also speaks for the frail elders who are less able to do as they wish. Drawing on both the Hebrew scriptures, Morgan not only provides realistic, practical counsel to the reader, but also promotes a deeper insight into the scriptures! The reflection questions at the end of each chapter guide individual thought and group discussion. Each chapter provides substance for homilies and sermons and the Biblical Index is of great use to those searching for scriptural relevance for aging.

This is a gem of a book – essential reading – for both older persons and those who serve them pastorally.

Dr. Jane Marie Thibault, Author Ten Gospel Lessons for Later Life

Bible Study Group

I had no idea the Bible had so much to say about older people. In our study class, we learned so much wisdom from the experience of people in the Bible and it helped me realize I could shine in the years when my body is in decline.

Martha Ann Brown, Class Member