Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

by Billy Graham

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable. Some say old is even beautiful.

Even at ninety-two, my desire is to learn to be content. We should never get too old to learn or too old to smile!

Even if our spouses haven’t worked outside the home, the transition may be just as jarring for them as it is for us.

The writer of Ecclesiastes declared, “A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God” (2:24). Paul said, “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31).

In God’s eyes every legitimate work has dignity and importance, which means we should do our work with pride and diligence and integrity.

I am able to visit our Bible training center at the Cove in Asheville or the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte.

let’s be thankful for the time they give us to concentrate on His blessings. Considering all God has given can fill the hours—and it should. “Finally,” Paul told the Philippians, “whatever things are true . . . noble . . . just . . . pure . . . lovely, whatever things are of good report . . . meditate on these things” (Philippians 4:8 NKJV).