Spirited Book Club: Joan Chittister's The Gift of Years

The Spirited Book Club's December selection is Joan Chittister's The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully. Sheri Brown facilitates the discussion on Thursday, 12/8/2022, 2pm MST, 1pm PST. Register to receive Zoom link.

Not only accepting but celebrating getting old, this inspirational and illuminating work by Sr. Joan Chittister looks at the many facets of the aging process, from purposes and challenges to struggles and surprises.

How do you view the aging process? Is it tinged with anxiety and regret? Or do you see it as an adventure, a time to find meaning, and a ripening? Or, is it a little of both? The Gift of Years, Joan Chittister’s bestselling book, offers you the chance to look at this time of maturation with fresh eyes, with joy for what has been and optimism for what is to come.

Reviews for The Gift of Years:

  • “Chittister beautifully downplays regrets and accents the rewards of a mature life.” —Library Journal,
    starred review

  • “This collection of inspirational reflections . . . abounds in gentle insights and arresting aphorisms.” —Publishers Weekly

  • “Perhaps you have to be in the second half of life to know how truthfully and helpfully Joan Chittister speaks. We live in a first-half-of-life culture, which makes this wisdom all the more necessary—and all the more wonderful.” —Richard Rohr, author, The Naked Now

  • “It’s the best book I have read on the subject of aging, a dazzling work radiant with gems of insight on every page. It will be my spiritual reading in the days ahead.” —Andrew Greeley, author, The Great Mysteries

Joan Chittister is an internationally known author and lecturer, and the executive director of Benetvision: A Resource and Research Center for Contemporary Spirituality. She is past president of the Conference of American Benedictine Prioresses and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Her books include The Friendship of Women, In Search of Belief, In the Heart of the Temple, and Wisdom Distilled from the Daily. She lives in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Join the club! The book is discussed over one meeting on Thursday, 12/8/2022, 2pm MST, 1pm PST. Register to receive Zoom link.

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