#113: Grace + Your Body: Aging with grace

Aging with grace: What does it look like to be kind and compassionate to our physical bodies when they are not what they used to be? In our culture that values youth and abhors wrinkles, what do we do?

In this episode, we’ll walk through

What we see in the mirror and feel in our bones
What our emotions are telling us as we age
How to age with grace
And how to age with grace in front of our kids

Key Quotes

“Aging with grace means reminding ourselves of what God says is true and practicing the act of compassion in real-time.” – Jill E. McCormick
“We are far more accustomed to critiquing, criticizing, and labeling ourselves than we are reciting God’s words back to us.” – Jill E. McCormick
“Jesus was not called a Man of Sorrows and the God of all comfort because He only deals with happy people who never show discontentment.” – Jill E. McCormick
“Thankfulness is not a denial of reality or a white-washing of pain. It is the step that comes after addressing our grief, and it is a practice that reminds us of our dependence on God and His sovereign goodness toward us.” – Jill E. McCormick
“Agency is the third way – the grace-way – that’s the opposite of apathy and overexertion.” – Jill E. McCormick
“How we think of our bodies is a heart issue, and one need of the human heart is the need to be beautiful.” – Jill E. McCormick
“We can love and care and cultivate our beauty while not being obsessed with it.” – Jill E. McCormick