A Woman's Life Journey

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This paper analyzes Maria Harris' book "Jubilee Time, Celebrating Women, Spirit and the Advent of Age" as a help for those studying women at mid-life transitions who are struggling to remain in the workforce. It focuses on generativity, taking inventory of our lives and the spirituality of aging. It outlines the confrontations for women reaching the age of retirement and encourages a celebration of age. The book sees increasing age as a time of challenge and excitement and this paper encourages women to see mid life as a strengthening time. It provides a chapter by chapter chart summary with commentary.

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"The introduction sets the theme of journey, a celebration of the fiftieth year and an invitation to women to consider their journey into the decades following this milestone. It invites the reader to consider the concept of rest and re-creation for this part of the life journey. There is an explanation of the Leviticus text, some elucidation of Maria Harris' own life journey from 48 years, and reference to other writers who influenced this book. . If spirituality is intimately connected with life, then it could be said to be life breathed into all, as daily routines are followed in a way that generates life even in the mundane happenings (Treston, 1985, p. 90). Nowhere did I feel Harris empathy and "walking with" the reader was more evident than in the details of the many women who provided the research data so the book could be written."

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