Winter 2021 - The wisdom of ageing

Congratulations to the winners

Wisdom is acknowledging life as it is, neither living in the past nor wishing our time away for some different future.

There is much we can learn from the elderly who know how to listen well and quietly practise their faith.

Hands tell a story of their owners. They reach, grasp, soothe, turn away or beckon, and the lined hands of age are also the lined hands of knowledge built up over many years.

The trajectory of one cannon ball altered the direction of the Catholic Church, and its effects are still being felt 500 years later.

We need to understand grace as an event – something that describes the quality of our relationship with God. 

Mothers Day reminds us of the many and varied shapes of relationships that make up women’s lives.

The past often exerts an exotic pull – what was life like back when? The elderly provide a link to the past and in this article agreed to be interviewed by their, mainly, grandchildren to talk about their lives, hopes and dreams.