Engaging The Gifts Of Growing Older

“Aging gracefully allows us to discover or rediscover our authentic selves, insists octogenarian Frank J. Cunningham, past publisher of Ave Marie Press and author of the best-selling Vesper Time: The Spiritual Practice of Growing Older. Cunningham here offers over 100 short, pithy, insightful quotes and reflections-one per page, in large print, with room to write reactions-that explore what spiritually engaged elders have become and can yet become, divided into five themes: Memory, Intimacy, Diminishment, Gratitude, and Acceptance. The black-and-white line drawings accompanying each chapter are by Connie Meyer-septuagenarian artist, mother, grandmother, and retired teacher”