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Saving Our Stories : A Legacy We Leave Older Adult Issues Series
author
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Morgan, Richard Lyon.
publisher
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Geneva Press
isbn10 | asin
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066450082X
print isbn13
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9780664500825
ebook isbn13
:
9780585320267
language
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English
subject
Autobiography, Autobiographical memory.
publication date
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2000
lcc
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CT25.M67 1999eb
ddc
:
828
subject
:
Autobiography, Autobiographical memory.
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Saving Our Stories
A Legacy We Leave
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OLDER ADULT ISSUES SERIES
The Office of Older Adult Ministry of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Geneva Press are grateful for the generous gifts of many individuals, congregations, and organizations that helped make possible the publication of this series.
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Saving Our Stories
A Legacy We Leave
Richard L. Morgan
Published for the Office of Older Adult Ministry, A Ministry of the General Assembly Council, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
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1999 Office of Older Adult Ministry, Congregational Ministries Division, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Allrightsreserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Geneva Press, 100 Witherspoon Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202-1396.
Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.
ISBN 0-664-50082-X
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Contents
A Guide to Spiritual Autobiography
1
1 Why Save Our Stories?
5
2 Overcoming Our Resistances
11
3 Ways to Save Our Stories
17
4 Seeing Patterns in Our Stories
23
5 A Leader's Guide to Group Story Sharing
33
Notes
41
Resources for Saving Your Life Story
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A Guide to Spiritual Autobiography
When you are working on a computer, sometimes you type a whole page, and the power goes out. If you have not saved your work on a disk, it is all lost. Every day of our lives, from the tick of birth to the tock of death, we write our life stories. If they are not saved, they are forever lost. An African tribe has a great proverb, "Whenaknowledgeableoldpersondies, awholelibrarydisappears."
No task is more important in the later years than saving your life story. It is the priceless legacy you leave your children and generations yet unborn. It remains one of the most important ways in our later years to achieve a sense of integrity and meaning about our lives. One danger that confronts older people is that because our days are more limited, we come to believe that our lives are without meaning.
In earlier times, families sat around the campfire to hear stories of the paststories about the birth of a child, stories of classic battles, and of great floods. This was the way that children learned who they were, as well as the values and beliefs of their families.
In the book of Deuteronomy we find a primitive confession of faith, which told the story of Israel's origins.
A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien.... When the
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Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us,... we cried to the LORD, the God of our ancestors... The LORD brought us out of Egypt... and gave us this land....
Deuteronomy26:59
When we were children, families sat around the dinner table and told their stories. When the meal ended and dessert plates were pushed aside, we reminisced and swapped our tales. If we saw events in different ways, that made for even livelier conversations.
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