Episode 14: Growing Older with Grace: The Beauty of Bearing Fruit

In this six-episode series of the Be Still podcast, Still Becoming: Six Conversations about Spiritual Maturity, Lisa explores the ways God may be asking us to keep growing—not simply so we can follow Jesus faithfully for most of our lives, but so we can finish well.

Because life can test our faith in ways we never anticipated. When our hearts break, our stories take unexpected turns, and God doesn’t give us the answers we want, what happens to our faith? Through Scripture, great books, and honest reflection, Lisa explores what it means to grow in faith, embrace spiritual maturity, and remain faithful to Jesus through every season of life.

What does it mean to grow older with grace in a culture that keeps telling us to resist aging at all costs?

In this episode, Lisa reflects on St. Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 4:16: “Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day.” Through a conversation with her daughter about body image and a story from Heart of Vines, she considers what our bodies are actually for—and how knowing their purpose can change the way we experience aging.

Perhaps growing older with grace isn’t about giving up on caring for ourselves. Perhaps it’s about shifting our attention from preservation to transformation—measuring our lives less by what time is taking away and more by the fruit God is still inviting us to bear.

In this episode, Lisa explores:
• The pressure women feel to resist the natural signs of aging
• What 2 Corinthians 4 teaches us about the outer self and the inner self
• The difference between preservation and transformation
• How our understanding of the purpose of our bodies shapes the way we experience aging
• What a conversation about body image revealed about the