You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan invites his good friend and former president of the Seattle School, Dr. Keith Anderson, to discuss the realities of aging.

Dan and Keith talk about the importance of living into deep questions, fostering curiosity, and practicing

listening throughout all seasons of life.

Well, one of the delights of doing this podcast is to invite dear friends into conversation.

And I have the privilege of being with my former boss, Dr. Keith Anderson, the second president of the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology.

And Keith is visiting, staying with us, and as part of his due.

He has agreed to talk with me a younger man about the reality of aging.

And so, Keith, it is good to be with you, and we will be

talking about aging. So if you would begin by simply talking about what you would hope,

any young person might grasp about the reality of our aging bodies and what will inevitably be their aging bodies.

Well, thank you, Dan. A younger man, being mentored, obviously, in in this moment by a much older man.

I turned 70 on June 26th last week. My day started with a phone call.

No hello.

Just a deep, rich, melodic, bass voice that sang,

Happy Birthday to me.

Then my treasured friend, Paul Snikey, said,

Brother Anderson, you have traveled around the sun 70 times.

What is that like?

Paul will do very well past the midway of life because he asks questions like that.

He seeks perspective and growing forward, I suppose, gives the possibility of perspective, which comes from lived experiences.

That may be one of the most important things that I would hope that all of us come to understand is that

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