Billy Graham's new book a spiritual look at growing old

By Cathy Lynn Grossman
USA TODAY

Excerpt:
The trigger for this book was a comment he made in a 2006 interview: "I had been taught all of my life how to die, but no one had ever taught me how to grow old."

No one prepares you for loneliness, for pain, for the grief of losing your soul mate, he now writes. When his wife, Ruth, died in June 2007, he was stunned that she died before he did. He had never envisioned his life without her.

Graham says he wanted the book to be the handbook he never had — spiritual, pragmatic and fearless.

He writes: "The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner." the rest