Spiritual Foods for Senior Saints: Devotions for 80 Years and Beyond

By Patt M. Devitt

These thirty-one devotionals are written by an eighty-five-year-old for those saints looking for ways to relate to biblical passages for wisdom and guidance. This search presents some unique challenges for those who have been gifted with cutting-edge years. Familiar passages that tell us how best to live life on this earth can now take on different meanings. These devotional passages focus on the readers renewed relationship with God and living by faith, encouraging the readers spiritual growth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 8, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524645700

Patt M. Devitt

Patt M. Devitt has had children’s stories and personal memoirs published in anthologies, newspapers, and magazines in Canada and the USA. This is her first writing in the religious genre. She has four adult children, eleven grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. She is currently living at Capstone Village, a retirement community for active adults in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Her email address is [e-mail].

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Resting

Going Toward the Unknown

Freedom

I am known

Overwhelmed

Broken heart

Lonely

All Things

Questions

Fear

What Purpose?

Anger

Be Still

Shame

All Alone

Hopeless

Joyful Noise

Prejudice

Determination

Remembrance

Asking

Fatigue

Prayer

Anxiety

Rejection

Aching Bones – Slow Steps

Joy

Living Life Now

Kindness

Live Gratefully!

Death

Devotions And Texts

Acknowledgements

This book came to be because of the cheerleader enthusiasm, the artistic eye, the unrelenting encouragement, the proofing reading ability, and the guidance of these special people: Suzy Telford, D’Ann Gunn, Fleta Edwards, Dr. Helen DeBevoise, Dr. Caroline Brown, Aileen Henderson, and Carolyn Ezell. Thank you.

Thanks, too, to Charles Edwards, Ann Weston, and the staff of Capstone Village who helped me navigate in the computer world.

Introduction

Dear Reader,

From my lofty age of 85 I find the decade of the eighties presenting some unique challenges I did not face in the teen years, middle years, or even retirement years. My body is different (demanding more maintenance, more care), my thinking is different (short term getting shorter, recalling people’s names getting harder), and my social patterns are different (energy and hearing levels make being in large gatherings uncomfortable). Therefore, smaller groups of friends are my community of choice.