Second Week of July: Spiritual Aging Study Guide
Aging in Real Time
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This Week’s Excerpt
Many of us feel helpless against the enormity of world affairs. Any meaningful action we consider entails some degree of risk of falling short. But life is a risk and there is no alternative.
While yours may not be a perfect action, this is to be expected for you are an imperfect person living in an imperfect world. You can mourn this new level of confrontation with your own degree of powerlessness, but to intentionally neutralize your best if inadequate effort could lead you to place not so much safe as fallow…
“This may be the hardest part of passing from older middle age into true old age: the acceptance of limits, the paring down to essentials,” writes Peter Laarman. “I now think I know what the Talmud means when it says, ‘You are not obliged to finish the work, but neither are you permitted to desist from it.’”
–Excerpt from Spiritual Aging: Weekly Reflections for Embracing Life