40/40 Vision: Clarifying Your Mission in Midlife

Greer, president and CEO of HOPE International, and Lafferty, senior pastor of Willowdale Chapel, use Ecclesiastes to provide advice on the perilous path of midlife. Both authors have a knack for lightening up this often-distressing dire-straits season of life. Greer and Lafferty will make readers laugh at just the right moments to cushion the lessons of middle age. Christians and nonbelievers alike will find much to mull over as they approach this most ominous midlife point, or as they find themselves on either side of it. Through vividly telling their own stories and others’, the authors emphasize that midlife can include feeling meaningless, disappointed, insatiable, mortal, disconnected, uncontrolled, and fallible. Each chapter draws lessons from a portion of scripture from the book of Ecclesiastes. Readers will discover that no matter one’s age, one’s outlook and purpose for living will determine how a path through the ups and down of each phase of life. Greer and Lafferty offer a touching, wise guide for making the midlife struggle a worthy one. (Nov.)