Keeping Spiritual Balance As We Grow Older: More Than 65 Creative Ways to Use Purpose, Prayer and the Power of Spirit to Build a Meaningful Retirement

by Molly Srode, Bernie Srode

Overview

Your Guide to Exploration and Adventure in the Years Ahead

As we grow older and face new demands on our bodies—illnesses, limited mobility, loss of vision or hearing—it is easy to focus on only the changes to our physical bodies and forget about the transformations our spiritual selves are going through.

Keeping Spiritual Balance As We Grow Older will guide you through readings and practical exercises to reintroduce you to your spiritual side. Molly and Bernie Srode discuss how the power of spirit can help you overcome the obstacles of aging, add meaning to your everyday life, and attain both your material and spiritual goals regardless of your religious orientation.

With creative, practical advice, this book is brimming with ideas to add purpose and spirit in the building of your meaningful retirement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594730429
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	3.15(w) x 3.15(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Molly Srode is a retired hospital chaplain in her early 60s. A spiritual seeker, Molly shares details of her own spiritual journey (she was once a Catholic nun and educator) with readers of all faith traditions with ease. She and her husband, Bernie Srode, a former priest, have been actively pursuing their spiritual lives together over the past twenty-five years. They are publishers of the Senior Spirituality Newsletter and coauthors of Keeping Spiritual Balance As We Grow Older: More than 65 Creative Ways to Use Purpose, Prayer, and the Power of Spirit to Build a Meaningful Retirement (SkyLight Paths). When they are not traveling, they make their home in Columbus, Ohio.

Bernie Srode, a former priest, and his wife, Molly Srode, have been actively pursuing their spiritual lives together over the past twenty-five years. They are publishers of the Senior Spirituality Newsletter and coauthors of Keeping Spiritual Balance As We Grow Older: More than 65 Creative Ways to Use Purpose, Prayer, and the Power of Spirit to Build a Meaningful Retirement. When they are not traveling, they make their home in Columbus, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: The Ground on Which We Stand
1. Citizen of Two Worlds
2. The Spiritual Body
3. The Red Flags
4. The One Who Is
5. A Higher Calling
6. Angels among Us
7. A Sure Thing
8. Thoughts Are Things
9. The Right to Choose
10. The Doorway to Life

Part II: Spirituality—Day by Day
11. New Year's Resolutions
12. What If
13. The Gift
14. The Fog
15. The Smile
16. Spring Sonata
17. A River Runs through Us
18. Feathers and Fur
19. The Banquet
20. A Room with a View
21. Sacred Space
22. Crisis in America
23. Sursum Corda
24. Finding Our Niche
25. This Moment in Time
26. Creating a Spiritual Holiday
27. Moving On

Afterword
Acknowledgments

Editorial Reviews

Although the title of and introduction to this book suggest a practical and multifaith guide to a spiritual retirement, the authors fail to deliver on both counts. Rather than emphasize "...a spirituality that reaches across and beyond religious traditions," it relies heavily on a Judeo-Christian concept of God and gives only a handful of cursory nods to other faiths, including a reference to the concept of karma and an acknowledgment that some people may refer to God as Allah. Rather than pen a how-to, this husband/wife team, a former priest and nun, offer a collection of musings on their spirituality, rife with personal anecdotes and wisdom gathered over the course of their lives. Specific retirement discussion is confined mostly to observations and lacks true advice. Although the book has some lovely thoughts on finding spirituality in things like the birds and squirrels in the back yard, and it has a healthy dose of affirmations, it does not provide any sort of cohesive suggested routine or ritual to develop a deeper spirituality in the golden years. (Jan.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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