This book is written as if telling a story through the author's experiences and reflections.
We invite you on a journey of aging to prepare for your later years and to cultivate a more complete growth in God's love, a life that allows the spirituality dormant within you to blossom.

They have lived an unremarkable life by the world's standards, and they say, 'I have achieved this over the years.
He asks humbly, 'What is it that has been put down?'
The best answer to this is
'God loves you just the way you are right now.'

--- p.12

Let the Lord call you by name and ask, 'What are you seeking? What do you desire?'
Even if you don't know what you really want, ask Him for what you desire.
Speak up.
Perhaps you might say that you want to be with Him.
Then at that moment
The Lord will run to you.
The important thing is that you and He talk to each other.

--- p.40

Old age means something different to each of us, and we all experience it in our own unique ways.
Honor your uniqueness and experience the wonder of becoming more and more of yourself.
Feel it.
You mature in a different way than other people.
Aging just happens to you
Don't let it happen.
Accept growing old, but never accept it passively.
Create, shape, and stamp your stamp on aging.
His last moments with the Lord
Add a touch.

--- pp.43-44

During your painful time, you find only one footprint in the sand and you are
You may have felt abandoned.
But that one footprint is the Lord carrying you
It was a footprint left because he had left.

--- p.59

You may be getting older, but you are still my love.
I love you from head to toe.

Your wrinkled hands, your skinny legs, your graying hair, your forgetfulness or inability to pray.
I even love not being able to concentrate.
Above all, I love your heart.

Your heart is turned towards me even in the midst of distractions!
--- p.60

I embrace each day of life you give me and try to discover hidden traces of your presence.
I am changing.
Now I'm going to go with the flow and let you lead me.
You lead me into the twilight of my life, so that I may praise you.
May you grow more in gratitude.

--- p.139

Jesus clearly tells us that we must love and forgive one another.
You have a heart and
The commandment to love God with all your soul, strength and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself.
Received.
This is not a cautious and narrow-minded love, but one that seeks the best for everyone else.
It is the generous love that I hope for.

--- p.264