In How to Age Without Getting Old, Joyce Meyer has written a book to guide readers into the aging process and how to embrace the different seasons of your life. She begins the book by encouraging everyone to stop and say out loud that one day, they will be 70, 80, and 90 if God decides to bless us to live that long and how we need declare that we will not fear getting older. She shared her own personal story about how she was sexually abused by her father in her youth. She left home at 18 years and she got married. Her husband abandoned her twice and had extramarital affairs, couldn’t keep a job, and he stole things. She opened up about how sick she was physically and doctors related it to stress. She was divorced at 22 and had her first child to raise alone.
She eventually met Dave and married him and they had two more babies. She had to get a full-time job where they could afford to purchase a home. She shared how she drank coffee, smoked cigarettes, didn’t sleep much, and was constantly upset and not happy. She shared how she welcomed Jesus into her life at 33 years old and she started received emotional healing. David and her had another child shortly before she realized her calling into ministry and it all began with nothing. She opened up in this book about how the different events in her life started affecting her. She also had breast cancer in 1985 and this caused her to have to get a hysterectomy. She shared how her ministry was growing and how she did around twenty speaking conferences in a year and each was 4-5 sessions. She filmed her TV show, work 2-3 books a year, book signings, traveled and did foreign mission trips. She realized her health needed to become more of a focus in her life so she hired a personal trainer and at 62 started working out three days a week and she tried to eat healthier. In 2017, the doctors discovered that she had a bad hip since birth and this caused her hip problems her entire life. She didn’t understand how to rest. She was also experiencing other health problems such as being nausea, blood pressure running high, shaky, and weak. She didn’t get how important rest was until her doctor made her take 18 months off of work and rest completely.
I would recommend this awesome book to anyone who is ready to start living and they want to learn to age graceful and enjoy each moment. I immensely love how she explored the importance of not comparing our lives to each other. She revealed how she had to learn the hard way and God taught her in a personal way about not trying to compare with what others are lifting. She had to be reminded that she only needs to be the best that she can be and to remember that her good enough is more than enough. I also enjoyed the five ways to slow down the aging process. I realize one of the areas I can improve is my water intake to help restore my body. I also liked how she included spiritual verses to help feed the spirit. I benefited from the principles she outlined in this book to guide readers into the aging process.
"I received this book free from the publisher, Hachette Book Group/Faithwords for my honest review.”
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