A Time to Live
Seven Tasks of Creative Aging
In A Time To Live, Robert Raines explores the spiritual and emotional dimensions of what can be the most rewarding time of life. Drawing on his experiences as an ordained minister and as director of a non-denominational retreat center focusing on issues of personal growth, Raines delineates the important passages we must all make from our middle years in the process of growing older. In an approach that is both meditative and inspirational, drawing from a variety of backgrounds, anecdotes, and literature, Raines provides a new perspective on the aging process and its implications. To make the most of this ultimate period of life, he argues, we must each confront certain issues: waking up to mortality, embracing sorrow, savoring blessedness,…
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November 1, 1998Robert Raines is an ordained minister who graduated from Yale Divinity School. After serving in three parishes, for twenty years he was the director of the Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center, where he began leading workshops in Midlife and then Elder Passages. He lectures actively around the country and resides in Guilford, Connecticut.
