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

This week, Dan continues his conversation about the reality of aging with his good friend

and former president of the Seattle School, Dr. Keith Anderson.

Dan and Keith discuss what it means to embrace the slower yet deeper pace that accompanies

this season of life and ask the important question. How do we prepare to be able to live out

the paradox of our bodies growing older while our inner self, as Paul writes in

2 Corinthians 5, is being renewed.

Keith and I, Keith Anderson, both a dear friend and colleague, were talking about aging.

And really, if I had to name what I heard from you last week, it's far more wisdom.

The wisdom that aging begins to a lot if there is a heart willing to engage the exigencies and complexities

and allow that to be part of the shaping process, the humbling, but also the hopeful process.

You know, as I age, I can truly say it's so far been one of the best seasons

of my life, in part because, and I read this quote from you last time, I care less about

things that I cared a lot about. And I care more about things that were important, but now are vastly more important.

And what we ended with in our last session was the comment that my granddaughter asked.

And I know that you will engage this eventually, Keith, but I love your indirection.

And so, again, what are the things that

have brought you your current taste of the goodness of God as you're aging? One of my mentors,

James Houston from Regent College, used to talk about the slow work of God in our lives.

As a younger man, as a younger pastor, as a younger leader,

was less interested in the slow work of God than in the rapid pace of things that were on my

plate and that I wanted to put on the plates of others.

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