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God Hears Her Podcast

167. Aging Gratefully (with Heather Creekmore)

God Hears Her Podcast

Our Daily Bread Ministries

Society & Culture, Bible, Womensministry, Womensbiblestudy, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Women, Female

4.9689 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Guest Bio: Heather Creekmore writes and speaks hope to thousands of women each week, inspiring them to stop comparing and start living. She’s the host of the Compared to Who? podcast and the author of four books, including The 40-Day Body Image Workbook: Hope for Christian Women Who’ve Tried Everything and Aging Gratefully, a new devotional on aging for women in midlife. Heather has been featured on Fox News, Huff Post, Morning Dose, Church Leaders, For Every Mom, and dozens of other shows and podcasts. But she’s best recognized from her appearance as a contestant on the Netflix hit show, Nailed It. Heather and her fighter-pilot-turned-pastor husband, Eric have four children and live in Austin, Texas.

 

Show Summary: No matter what we do or how we try to prevent it, we are all aging. With age comes wisdom, but also body changes that make us feel like we’re losing everything we once had. Heather Creekmore wants us to remember that God’s Word does not speak badly about growing older. Join hosts, Eryn Eddy Adkins and Elisa Morgan as they talk about aging gratefully with Heather Creekmore on this episode of God Hears Her. 

 

Notes and Quotes: 

  • “Am I defining beauty the way the world does, or the way that [God’s] Word does? Who’s definition am I going to believe?” —Heather Creekmore

  • “While culture might tell us we’re aging out of relevance, we’re really just coming into our own.” —Heather Creekmore

  • “There’s so much possibility when partnering with God and saying, ‘What’s next?’” —Heather Creekmore

  • “To reframe, to really change our thoughts, is not just about taking the thoughts captive. But it’s seeing ourselves being in the image of God’s Kingdom instead of this earthly kingdom.” —Heather Creekmore

  • “When God doesn’t come through the way we thought He should come through, that is when we have the sweet opportunity to really get to know the real God instead of the God who is a figment of our imagination, and when we really have to lean on trusting Him.” —Heather Creekmore

 

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Aging just snaps, it's like a stress or trauma response.

0:04.2

We're kind of snapped right back to it.

0:07.0

And so I do think we have to reframe it, right?

0:09.3

We have to go back to, am I defining beauty the way the world does or the way the word does?

0:26.9

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0:33.4

through scripture, story, and conversation at godhearsher.org.

0:39.3

God hears her.

0:41.1

Seek and she will find.

0:44.0

So, Erin, we've talked kind of repeatedly you and I about the fact that there's a bit of an age

0:49.7

gap between us, which we love because we bring different perspectives to each other. And then with Viv as

0:56.8

well, she's kind of in between us. And that's amazing. You know, we've got a good 20, 30 years in

1:02.7

between you and me. How does the whole topic of aging hit you? Do you ever feel like, oh my goodness,

1:08.2

I'm getting old? Or is that just something I feel?

1:20.5

Well, so I will be 37 by the time this podcast comes out. Celebrating my birthday. And it's a conversation that I've had with a few of my friends because a lot of women my age are starting to do things to

1:26.9

prevent aging, doing different procedures. And I have this

1:32.8

like peer pressure met with age gracefully check in my spirit, you know? And I'm like, I don't know

1:40.4

what is putting vanity as an idol. And I just want to say, too, that the older I get,

1:47.4

gosh, the less big of a deal it is to me and the more it is my context. I forget about it

1:54.3

until I look at the mirror and see some lumpy bumpy thing, spotty waddy, something. But, you know,

1:59.8

besides that, I feel so much freer having passed a

2:04.3

certain threshold to just be myself. In this conversation, we're going to be talking with Heather

2:09.6

Creekmore. And Heather, you have just written a devotional on aging gratefully, which is a really

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