Ep. 167 | Are you Looking Forward to Being Old and Frail
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.9 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Bethke and Jeremy Pryor talk about looking forward to their years as grandparents.
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| 0:00.0 | and say, hey, my day is up. And now I get to pass on the baton to you and cheer you on and be on |
| 0:06.2 | the sidelines and really love my family as it expands into the future. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey, guys, welcome to the Five Minute Fatherhood podcast. I'm your co-host, Jeff Beth Key, |
| 0:18.5 | along with my friend and mentor, Jeremy Pryor. Join us Monday through Friday as we chat about quick tips, skills, and ways to help |
| 0:24.4 | equip you on your journey as a father to build your multi-generational family team on mission. |
| 0:30.9 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:35.7 | All right, guys, welcome to their five-minute fatherhood. So I got a question for you. Are you looking |
| 0:39.9 | forward to when you're old and frail? Are you thinking about yourself in your 70s and 80s and thinking, |
| 0:46.8 | wow, that's going to be such an amazing time in life. Now, a lot of people in ancient cultures |
| 0:52.9 | actually did this. And people don't do this today. |
| 0:55.0 | We worship youth, you guys. |
| 0:57.0 | We love all of the trappings of youth. |
| 0:59.0 | We're not super into wisdom. |
| 1:01.0 | We're super into a lot of other things, a lot of much more superficial values. |
| 1:07.0 | But I want to kind of challenge you guys. |
| 1:09.0 | Maybe you should be really looking forward to being old and frail. |
| 1:12.5 | Why would somebody look forward to that season in their life? Okay. The reason you guys is that family |
| 1:17.7 | teams in the past, when men got into their 70s, 80s, 90s, they lived an amazing quality of life. |
| 1:26.9 | Physically, things were slowing down. |
| 1:29.5 | So there's a lot of pain during this season. |
| 1:31.8 | But during that season, they were being surrounded and honored by their multi-generational family, constantly involved in asking questions. |
| 1:39.6 | But they didn't have anything else to win. |
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