Answering God's Call: A Scripture-Based Journey for Older Adults - Softcover

Lee, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0829451315 ISBN 13: 9780829451313

Publisher: Loyola Press, 2021

Synopsis

God's call for us doesn't end when we retire. In fact, many of our biblical saints were in their later years before God called them to the adventures for which we know them: leadership, new life, transformation, healing. Their lives demonstrate that true callings are discerned not simply through reason and circumstance but also through self-knowledge and conversation with God.

In Answering God's Call, spiritual director Barbara Lee uses Scripture-focused prayer to help readers connect with some of our elder saints and consider what God reveals to us through their lives. We will spend time with Anna and Abram, Simon's mother-in-law and Namaan the Syrian, a widow, a leper, a king, and a late-in-life mother-to-be, among others, who will open for us the calls to

• trust
• humility
• stillness
• forgiveness
• service
• radical change
• letting go
• choosing
• caregiving
• courage...

Dare to receive what your life is now--and ask God how to live it best.

About this title

About the Author

Barbara Lee is a spiritual director with a ministry to the aging who lives in New York City .She is a retired attorney, a former U.S. magistrate judge, and a long-serving member of the Ignatian Volunteer Corps, an organization of retired people inspired by Ignatian spirituality who perform volunteer work among the poor. She is the author of God Isn't Finished With Me Yet: Discovering the Spiritual Graces of Later Life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Loyola Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0829451315
• ISBN 13: 9780829451313
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136