Celebrating the Rest of Your Life: A Baby Boomer's Guide to Spirituality

By David Yount

Retirement is badly named, claims author David Yount: it is not a retreat from life but only from a nine-to-five existence toiling on someone else's agenda. As you age, Yount believes your life should expand, not contract, and your spirit should grow. When retirement is in sight, it is prime time to stretch your mind, drop your emotional guard, invest in others, and cultivate community beyond those who live within your domestic walls. Calling on God's grace, we can grow young in spirit and find a richness in life that eluded us in our youth. In this helpful guide, Yount contemplates traditional marriage vows as being spiritually rich designs for living. If we remain faithful to ourselves, we can look forward to traversing the rest of our lives with grace and satisfaction. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806651717
• ISBN13: 9780806651712
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Augsburg Books
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Thought Provoking!

This, the tenth book by David Yount, offers spiritual and practical insights about aging and retirement. When did this happen, this rushing headlong toward retirement? Yount's book says that every eight seconds an American reaches the age of 50 and American Baby Boomers will enter retirement years with 77 million others born after World War II. The average man can now expect to live 27.5 years after 50; women will live 31.6 years. Most books for boomers are about extending life; planning financially; and preparing for decline and death. Yount talks about each, but with a positive Christian viewpoint. Each chapter starts with a relevant Bible verse and another quote. In the "Time to be courageous" chapter, he focuses on Ephesians 4:23-24, "Be made new in the attitude of your mind ... put on the new self, created to be like God." Most of us wish for a clear mind and healthy body as we move to live comfortably in retirement. In the "For richer, for poorer" chapter, Yount prompts us with, "A feast is made for laughter, and wine make life merry, but money is the answer for everything." -- Ecclesiastes 10:19. The book has many statements about aging and stages of wellness. Reading and reflecting on Greg Anderson's "22 Laws of Wellness," in the chapter on "In sickness and health," is worth the price of the book. Where does God and spirituality came into this book? In every chapter, reminding us that we are made in God's image -- and it's our job to take care of ourselves -- to reeducate ourselves to living life fully. Death does not hurt; life does, as the author wrote in his earlier book, Ten Thoughts to Take into Eternity. In the words of psychiatrist/author Scott Peck: ... "Ultimately we have to hand ourselves over to God." Armchair Interviews says: Well-written, jam packed full of thought-provoking ideas that jab you in the ribs, hopefully to positive action.

A profound yet plain-spoken testimonial sure to resonate with readers regardless of individual faith

Theologist and syndicated columnist David Yount presents Celebrating the Rest of Your Life: A Baby Boomer's Guide To Spirituality, a matter-of-fact guide to opening one's eyes to the future, considering both practical matters such as making financial safeguards, and matters of the soul, including the intimidating task of making peace with one's mortality and eventual death. Encouraging the reader to accept God's grace in order to more fully experience the richness of life, Celebrating the Rest of Your Life is a profound yet plain-spoken testimonial sure to resonate with readers regardless of individual faith. Highly recommended.