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    I’m Up: Soul Devotions for Seniors
    I’m Up: Soul Devotions for Seniors
    I’m Up: Soul Devotions for Seniors
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    I’m Up: Soul Devotions for Seniors

    By Beverly Beeghly Avers

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    This devotional for seniors gives assurance, inspiration, and hope as we hold on to God’s promises going home.
    Beverly Beeghly Avers, an ordained elder of the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church and former pastor, teams up with numerous contributors to highlight the challenges of facing each day and serving God.
    Much of the content is serious, but the author and contributors aren’t afraid to lighten things up. One passage reads, “Jesus said we must become like children to enter the kingdom of God. Well, I qualify, for I now wear Depends, take gummy supplements for calcium, use a walker or cane, and need help from family with items I can’t reach, forms I don’t understand, and cans and jars that are impossible for me to open.”
    While geared for seniors, the devotional can be used by family and friends to engage in meaningful conversations about how to live life before going home to be with our Lord.
    Many of the devotionals include hymns to recite or sing even as their memory decreases.
    You’ll be inspired to grow in faith as you get UP from bed, with our Lord's help, to serve the Lord no matter what your circumstances with this devotional steeped in Scripture.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJan 26, 2022
    ISBN9781664253995
    I’m Up: Soul Devotions for Seniors
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    Beverly Beeghly Avers

    Beverly Beeghly Avers was born December 14, 1937. She is the author of Intertwined: Beverly & Barbara in the Womb and Intertwined with Jesus. Beverly is the mother of Diane Marie Linton, Kathleen Louise Moore, and Christine Glenna Avers, deceased; and grandmother to Caitlin and Kristin Saupe, Sean and Lindsay Moore. Beverly attended Manchester College and graduated from Bowling Green State University. Beverly taught physical education at Euclid High School and then worked four years with the Cleveland YWCA. After staying home for ten years, she reentered the workplace. She worked at Lawnview MR/DD School for nineteen years as a home-based specialist, an early intervention specialist, teacher, and Tots Connection Service Coordinator. In 1994 she attended Bethany Theological Seminary and later graduated from United Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree. She is ordained as an Elder of the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church. Beverly served as pastor at Nation Chapel, Catawba, and Rosewood United Methodist churches, all in Ohio. Beverly is currently a retired clergy of the West Ohio Conference living in Wesley Glen Retirement Community in Columbus, Ohio.

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      I’m Up - Beverly Beeghly Avers

      Copyright © 2022 Beverly Beeghly Avers And Contributors.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-6642-5400-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-6642-5401-5 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-6642-5399-5 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2021925646

      WestBow Press rev. date: 01/22/2022

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      Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches

      Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996,

      2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

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      1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation. Used with permission.

      Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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      Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973 1978 1984 2011 by Biblica, Inc.

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      CONTENTS

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      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Day 1 I’m Up

      Day 2 Be Still and Know

      Day 3 Childlike

      Day 4 I’m up, Standing on Faith

      Day 5 Masks/Wrinkles/Freedom

      Day 6 Grace, Grace

      Day 7 I Just Dropped It

      Day 8 Grandmother: Where’s Mary?

      Day 9 Where Are the Eggs?

      Day 10 Pondering Change by Barbara Davids

      Day 11 Be Strong and Courageous by Rev. Sandra Huber

      Day 12 Pressing on, Pursuing, Perseverance—Three Ps

      Day 13 Jesus, Jesus, Jesus

      Day 14 Intertwined with Jesus

      Day 15 Our Inheritance

      Day 16 Creation Care By Dr. Rev. Crystal Walker with her father Eddie Phelps

      Day 17 I Know God Cares By Rev. Beverly Schmidt

      Day 18 Down but Not Forsaken By Rev. David Woodyard

      Day 19 Where Two or Three Are Gathered By Sue Sheets

      Day 20 What Is Your Temperature?

      Day 21 Grief By Sylvia Bower and Beverly Avers

      Day 22 The Lord Is Our Shepherd/He Carries Us

      Day 23 Rest for Your Soul By Sylvia Bower

      Day 24 Enough! Listen

      Day 25 A Devotion from a Caregiver The Faith and Forgiveness Forgetfulness can teach

      By Kathy Moore

      Day 26 Invisible Christmas Gifts By Nancy Johnston

      Day 27 Looking to the Unseen

      Day 28 And There Is Light and Love By Rev. John Osborne

      Day 29 The Lord’s Presence Forever

      Day 30 God’s Trip Ticket

      Day 31 Peace of God

      Contributors

      Endnotes

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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      I would like to thank my daughter Diane Linton and friend Sylvia Bower for reading the manuscript and giving me suggestions for improvement. I thank Diane for all her help setting up my new computer. I give gratitude to Rebecca Chambers for creating the graphic design for the cover of the book. I am grateful to my daughter Kathy Moore, who wrote the devotion on what she learned caring for her father. It was my privilege and honor to receive the devotions written by my friends for this book: Rev. Sandra Huber; Barbara Davids; Rev. Dr. Crystal Walker and her father, Eddie Phelps; Rev. Beverly Schmidt; Rev. David Woodyard; Sue Sheets; Nancy Johnston; Sylvia Bower; and Rev. John Osborne.

      I thank the staff from WestBow Press for their assistance in the publication of this book.

      And most of all, I give God the glory with the direction of the Holy Spirit for the creation of I’m Up. Glory to God!

      O God, You are my God, I seek You, my soul thirsts for You. ----- Because Your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise You. So I will bless You as long as I live; I will lift up my hands and call on Your name. My soul is satisfied as with a rich feast, and my mouth praises You with joyful lips (Psalm 63:1, 3–5).

      INTRODUCTION

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      God is pursuing you, and God loves you, _______________(your name). God created you to love, enjoy, and be in communication with Godself. Come and sit a spell with your Abba, Daddy, Father. The devotionals in this book are for you to ponder, laugh at, meditate on, be inspired by, to face reality with, engage in, and enjoy our Lord on earth as it is in heaven. Come with me as we discuss our daily challenges. When it’s time to go home, we will be lifted up to be with Jesus, unafraid and confident in God’s eternal promises.

      A. W. Tozer, author, tells us, We pursue God because and only because God has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit. … The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him and all the time we are pursuing Him we are already In God’s hand: ‘Thy right hand upholdeth me.’¹

      On a retreat I attended while at seminary, we were encouraged to walk around campus and

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