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ce supporting the view that religion enhances mental health and less evidence supporting the view that religion enhances physical health when asked what helped the elderly to cope with issues of aging they cited the following i prayer ii bible reading iii trust in the lord faith in god jesus christ iv going to church v support from their pastor or other members of their congregation longevity was attributed to three factors 1 activity hard work exercise keeping active physically and mentally 2 a strong belief in god and christian living and 3 a positive attitude toward self and others p 24 in part two there is an informative chapter titled pastoral care of african americans by anne streaty wimberly and edward p wimberly in which they emphasise the importance of the church and family networks wherein older african americans make significant contributions to the growth development and identity of the next generation in part three the chapter titled age based jewish and christian rituals by w a achenbaum points out that jews honour their elders in the talmud there are no limits placed on how often jews should visit the sick full membership in jewish burial societies were reserved for the elderly and surplus income from burial plots was used for charity including orphan care p 204 for this reviewer the most helpful chapter in part four was spiritual challenges of nursing home life by dayle a friedman the author highlights many of the significant factors involved regarding spiritual challenges and care in nursing homes such as routinized tyrannical and empty time loss of meaning grief disorientation and disconnection life with meaning vertical and horizontal connections family religious and individual celebrations education and more part five consists of seven theological perspectives on aging jewish catholic evangelical neo orthodox process theology feminist theology constructive theology with a concluding chapter entitled science and religion in dialogue in the chapter on feminist theology author mary m knutsen points out that elderly women live seven to eight years longer than men and are more likely than men to live in poverty over half of the black and hispanic elderly females living alone lived at or below the poverty level according to one study the chapter in part six by barbara pittard payne the interdisciplinary study of gerontology is quite informative it provides a brief history of gerontology which came into existence as an area of scientific study in the mid twentieth century trends and themes in social gerontology including health care costs caregiving minorities and gender trends and themes in gerontology and religion including faith and aging religious practices beliefs and behaviour nonorganizational religious activities the differences between religious liberals and religious conservatives religion and health this volume is a comprehensive helpful go to resource for seminarians pastors and chaplains as well as others who work with seniors in a variety of professions please note this review is of volume 1 volume 2 was published later and i have not read it filed under reviews tagged with aging book brief book review faith faith and health health pastoral care religion spiritual care spirituality sermon for 2 pentecost yr b june 5 2021 2 comments sermon for 2 pentecost yr b 6 06 2021 ps 130 pastor garth wehrfritz hanson waiting for god psalm 130 was apparently martin luther s favourite psalm this is what he had to say about it a proper master and doctor of scripture in other words a good news psalm which communicates what really matters god s forgiveness and saving grace maybe because this was luther s favourite psalm he wrote a penitential hymn based on it with the title of the opening verse out of the depths i cry to you this hymn is 600 in evangelical lutheran worship under the confession and forgiveness section dating back to at least the 5 th century the church has regarded psalm 130 as a penitential psalm along with psalms 6 32 38 51 69 102 and 143 the nrsv lutheran study bible gives it two titles a song of ascents and waiting for divine redemption the cev bible has one title in brackets a song for worship and a second title trusting the lord in times of trouble psalms 120 134 all have the title songs of ascent many scholars believe that these psalms were sung by faithful pilgrims as they travelled up to jerusalem for the yearly festivals some scholars also think that the word ascents refers to the faithful ascending the stairs of the temple for worship in addition to psalm 130 being identified as a penitential psalm and a song of ascents or pilgrimage psalm the lutheran study bible p 849 also identifies it as a prayer for help or lament to understand this psalm as a penitential pilgrimage and lament psalm i think it is helpful to consider the insights of biblical scholar the rev dr walter brueggemann in two of his books the message of the psalms a theological commentary and spirituality of the psalms dr brueggemann suggests that patterns of thought and speech in the psalms are similar to the patterns of human life for example there are satisfied seasons of well being there are anguished seasons of hurt alienation suffering and death and those seasons can become turns of surprise when we are overwhelmed with the new gifts of god he also puts it another way summarizing it in three words stages or seasons there are times of orientation when all seems well with the world there are times of disorientation when the world is turned upside down and trouble and suffering are the order of the day then there are times of reorientation when life is restored sometimes even better than in a time of orientation reorientation can come sometimes in unpredictable creative and surprising ways turning to the first three verses of our psalm we learn that the psalmist is in trouble it was as brueggemann might say a time of disorientation a time of suffering and trouble or crisis perhaps in the extreme since the psalmist says out of the depths i cry to you o lord or as eugene peterson renders it in the message help god i ve hit rock bottom or as the cev puts it from the sea of troubles i call out to you lord when we hit rock bottom we often refer to some crisis or disaster something that overwhelms us when we have a sea of troubles we may very well feel that our life is in danger since the troubles are so great that we cannot overcome them in verse two of the message one has the sense of the psalmist s boldness and desperation as he prays listen hard open your ears listen to my cries for mercy the cev captures something of this desperation as well the psalmist prays won t you please listen as i beg for mercy in other words the psalmist cannot help himself and others cannot help him only god can help him in his tragic life threatening situation verse three is a confession of sin although the psalmist does not recite specific sins he realizes that he and everyone for that matter are helpless to defend their sins if god kept a record of them as the cev puts it if you kept a record of our sins no one could last long if god kept a record of our sins all of us would have to plead guilty for every one of them we would stand condemned before god however verse four moves us from disorientation to reorientation from despair to hope as the message renders it as it turns out forgiveness is your habit and that s why you re worshipped yet in verses five and six the psalmist returns back to a time of disorientation a time of waiting waiting is mentioned three times in these two verses i wait for the lord my soul waits and in his word i hope my soul waits for the lord more than those who watch for the morning more than those who watch for the morning the sense of waiting here is not peaceful it is tense and stressful the image the psalmist employs here is that of a soldier or security guard watching through the night for enemies or burglars it can be difficult to stay awake through the night until morning when the morning arrives then the soldier or security guard is less tense and relieved of stress there are many times in your life and my life when waiting is difficult and stressful yet necessary for example i think back many years ago to the time when i graduated from seminary i was waiting for a call to begin serving as a pastor and had not yet received a call dr hordern our seminary president consoled me with the following words of wisdom all things come to those who wait i ended up having to wait for a year before i received my first call and was ordained that year of waiting was not easy it was stressful and i was most grateful when my waiting was over life is filled with waiting and a lot of waiting can be difficult and stressful parents waiting for their children to be born and as they live out the various stages of their lives which may involve a lot of difficult stressful unwelcome twists and turns and sufferings the unemployed wondering how they are going to pay all of their bills and debts and waiting to be employed again the person who is seriously ill or suffering from a life threatening disease waiting for surgery or treatments the brother or sister who is alienated from his or her sibling and waiting for forgiveness and reconciliation those in the midst of war waiting for it to end victims of injustice because of the colour of their skin waiting for justice in order that they might have equal access to work education and health care the senior citizen who believes that they have lived a full and meaningful life waiting for death all of us waiting for covid 19 to be over so that our lives might have some sense of normality again the list could go almost endlessly on as people of faith we have much to learn from our psalmist we do not wait without hope the psalmist tells us i wait for the lord my soul waits and in his word i hope god s word is a word of hope a word of promise that s why the psalmist can shift from the tense anxiety ridden and stressful waiting in his state of disorientation into the hopeful state of reorientation the psalmist concludes with words of wise counsel and confidence addressed to israel in verses seven and eight o israel hope in the lord for with the lord there is steadfast love and with him is great power to redeem it is he who will redeem israel from all its iniquities or as the message puts it o israel wait and watch for god with god s arrival comes love with god s arrival comes generous redemption no doubt about it he ll redeem israel buy back israel from captivity to sin so we are able to watch and wait because we have the hope that whatever state of disorientation we might find ourselves in it will not last forever we wait and watch and hope for god s steadfast love which is always dependable his steadfast love has the power to redeem us to buy us back out of slavery to sin thanks to the saving work of jesus we are set free in christ and 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