Nearing Home - A Book Review

Title:  Nearing Home Author:  Billy Graham         Dr. Graham helps us to learn how to grow old and live the years before we die.  He tells us how, looking back he can see God's hand guiding his life.  This book is well written and had me asking myself what "home " I was preparing for.  While growing might be the greatest surprise of our lives, the greatest triumph is yet to come:  experiencing victory over death that will usher us into the eternal presence of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.  As Dr. Graham tells us, we may retire from our jobs, but we should not retire from life.  The truth is that we gain new experiences until the day we die.  God has a purpose for each of us, and "old age" does not exempt us from fulfilling that purpose.  Dr. Graham gives us multiple examples throughout  scripture, from the patriarchs and prophets of the Old Testamaent to the apostles and followers of Christ in the New Testament, of men and women who made a profound impact on generations that followed.     We can learn that the last chapter in life can be the best.  We are not meant to live without hope.     I found this book very comforting and informative.  I give it four stars.