Re-Designing Your Life: A Practical Spirituality for the Second Half of Life

MacGregor, Sheila MacDonald

ISBN 10: 1525517163 / ISBN 13: 9781525517167

Published by FriesenPress, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Re-Designing Your Life: A Practical Spirituality for the Second Half of Life
• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1525517163
• ISBN 13: 9781525517167
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Re-Designing Your Life: A Practical Spirituality for the Second Half of Life is a timely and engaging book for living out the second half of your life with spiritual integrity. In this study you are invited to think about your life as a house undergoing renovations where, with God's grace, you get to design something new and life-giving. Through practical exercises, thought-provoking discussion topics and memorable anecdotes, Re-Designing Your Life will guide you through:

Coping with endings, empty-nesting and retirement;
Caring for self while caring for elderly parents and grandchildren;
Letting go of the things that get in the way of becoming your true self;
Creating a spiritual legacy;
Strengthening relationships; and
Finding your passion in your second half of life.

Re-Designing Your Life is a must-read for pastors, congregations and individuals who want to discover God's calling in the second half of life. Video resources for group studies are also available.

About the Author

Sheila Macdonald Macgregor has served as an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada for more than 30 years. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry degree from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, where her research focused on spirituality in the second half of life. A writer and speaker, Sheila leads workshops on preparing yourself emotionally and spiritually for retirement, writing your life story, and "boomerality" or second half of life spirituality. She currently serves as Lead Minister and Minister of Worship and Pastoral Care at Siloam United Church in London, ON. To learn more about her work, please visit boomerality.com