Souls in Full Sail: A Christian Spirituality for the Later Years

2011 Christianity Today Book Award Winner

"We do not set out to become old. Far from it. We hardly intend even to become middle-aged. Instead we plan to live in some eternal now which will lead on to something better, something more complete than what we had before. . . .

Sometime in our spiritual travels, as a complete surprise, we notice it has become winter. . . . This change has occurred, it seems, without preparation, without fair warning."

So spirituality writer Emilie Griffin begins, ta...