The Victory Lap [Paperback]

It happens to all of us if we live long enough. We grow older, with all the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual challenges that implies. But that's really good news. It means we're living longer, healthier lives and that we have the opportunity to continue learning and growing and contributing for a long time. Victory Lap is about all that. It's also about exercise, good diet, sleep. About our need for each other, to be involved with life and to prepare for death and the legacy we leave behind. It's about treasuring life, feeling gratitude to God and the people around us, adjusting to retirement and filling that extra time well. It's about being honest and real, with ourselves and other people. Endorsements: Recovery from a harrowing health crisis caused accomplished author Billie Silvey to use her considerable writing and research skills to develop a model for living life's last chapter. The resulting The Victory Lap: Growing Old with God is a candid, questioning, spiritual, informative and outstanding resource for individuals and Bible study groups. --Lindy Adams, Senior Associate Editor, retired, The Christian Chronicle Silvey's book offers practical and scriptural insights about aging, fortified by her skill as a writer and researcher. But the heart of the book is Silvey's transparency with her experiences; her willingness to take us on her journey into aging provides reasons to hope and trust in what God is doing in our own lives. --Ron Cox, Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Religion; President, Seaver Faculty Association, Pepperdine University Faith and love flow through this book to make it both moving and wise. Silvey knows from experience how difficult aging is for purpose-driven people who have worked hard to fill their days with good deeds and accomplishments. Readers will be grateful for her courage and candor to face up to what it's really like to grow old with God. --Marilyn McCord Adams, Professor Emerita of Philosophy, UCLAl^