Grace Enough Podcast

111: Sharon Betters & Susan Hunt | Aging With Grace


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Sharon Betters and Susan Hunt join me to talk about Aging with Grace in an anti-aging culture.  We discuss Psalm 92, healthy rhythms women can establish to help as their bodies slow down, and the value of investing in younger and older women.

Questions on Aging and God's Word Discussed During Our Conversation:
  1. (5:11) What do you mean when you say, aging with grace?
  2. (12:57) How would you encourage women in their 40's-50's to appreciate and press into what comes with the agingprocess?
  3. (18:46) What are some healthy rhythms and practices women can establish now that will help them continue to agewith grace as their bodies slow down?
  4. (26:12) Let's say a woman is listening who is 50-65 and they are in a season of helping their aging parents, spouses, and/or personal health declines.  The exhaustion is real and so is the sadness.  What would you say to encourage those women?
  5. cont.
  6. Aging with Grace  Episode Quotes to Remember:

    Susan: "The reality is, there's no way to stop aging. The wrinkles and the weakness will come. So if youthfulness is our goal, first of all, that's a pretty shallow goal, but it will also disappoint us terribly. But the gospel offers something so much bigger, so much better, something that's eternal."

    "In Psalm 92, God holds before us, a remarkable promise, a vision for aging. Let me read verses 12 to 14, 'The righteous flourish, like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon, they are planted in the house of the Lord, they flourish in the courts of our God, they still bear fruit, in old age, they're ever full of sap and green'."

    Sharon:  "I started thinking about what it means to grow in grace. It was a seed that was planted and there would be other events that would start nourishing it and growing it, but it was there in my heart I had to make a choice which one was I going to be a life giver or a life taker? I'm so thankful for those life giving women way back then to this little young girl."

    "Each loss is a reminder that we don't belong here. When we're God's children, when we know Him through Jesus, we are on our way Home. And so each loss is a memory of that and that can drive us to the cross."

    Resources Mentioned:
    • Book: Aging with Grace by Sharon W. Betters & Susan Hunt
    • Aging With Grace Free Resources
    • Westminster Catechism
    • Book: Spiritual Mothering by Susan Hunt
    • Related Episodes:
      • 104: Susie Rowan | Bible Study Fellowship, Executive Director
      • 84: Sandy Cullum | When Your Faith Walk Changes
      • 66: Tim & Darcy Kimmel | The Influence of A Grandparent
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        Connect with Sharon and Susan at agingwithgrace.online

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