The False Story of Anti-Aging

Counting Down From the moment you are born until the moment you die, you are aging. Every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every month of every year, your life counts up to midlife and down to end of life. How does that make you feel? Does your chest tighten with anxiety? Maybe you feel pressure to accomplish something more or different with the time you have left. Or maybe you feel very little at all about the ticking away of your life’s time clock. Perhaps more importantly, how should thinking about the countdown of your life make you feel? I believe that how we think about aging, and, relatedly, the aged themselves can alter the course of our lives either for the better or for the worse. More than that, I believe embracing and living from a Christian view of aging is one of the simplest ways believers can shine like stars in our current generation. And it all starts with a story. The Power of Stories The stories we believe about God, ourselves, and the world shape our feelings and govern the way we live. These stories may be true or false or a mix of truth and falsehood, but they are ubiquitous, humming along in our subconscious, moving us down one path or an...