Firsts. Cupped hands / Jennifer Dukes Lee ; Cultivating creativity / Brené Brown ; Of bodies and birds / Michelle Novak ; Turning / Jill Kandel ; Where have all the hearing aids gone? / Laura Lyn Brown ; Forty / Lauren Winner ; Rowing into the wild / Luci Shaw ; Merging branches / Amy R. Buckley ; This is my body / Charity Singleton Craig ; The whole new world of horses / Heather MacLaren Johnson ; Something big / Elisa Morgan ; Awakened to adventure / Sheila Wise Rowe ; My body, my fixer-upper / Amy K. Sorrells ; My first padded bra / Leslie Leyland Fields. Lasts. Never again--period! / Shelly Wildman ; Leaving the night behind / Julie Owens ; I renounce snap judgments--again / Jeanne Murray Walker ; Make no mistake / Shannon Ethridge ; The fetters and freedom of family / Amy F. Davis Abdallah ; No more comparing / Andrea Stephens ; The gift of regret / Michelle Van Loon ; Learn when to stop / Luci Swindoll ; Skin blotches and jiggly thighs / Margot Starbuck ; Life in high def / Nancy Stafford ; I lay down my doubts, I take up my pen / Leslie Leyland Fields ; Pay attention to what makes you cry / Jennifer Grant ; Enough of not enough / Suanne Camfield ; The grace to be diminished / Win Couchman. Always. What do you love to do? / Lynne Hybels ; Answer the phone / Patricia Raybon ; Three turns of the ramp / Joni Eareckson Tada ; How can I not keep reaching out? / Ann Voskamp ; Make me a cake / Elisabeth Elliot ; Messy edges / Vina Mogg ; Joy is a choice / Kay Warren ; The freedom of fun / Kendra Smiley ; The good earth / Paula Huston ; Building a stone wall / K. Martha Levitt ; The flesh is to be honored / Madeleine L'Engle ; A pilgrim in pogress / Gina Ochsner ; This is forty / Jen Pollock Michel ; Naked I came / Jill Kandel.

"We're all getting older. How do we make the second half of our lives the best half? Forty incredible women of faith from 40 to 85 tackle aging anxieties head-on--and upend them with compelling first person stories full of humor, sass, and spiritual wisdom. In three thematic sections--Firsts, Lasts, and Always--these women provide much-needed role models for aging honestly, beautifully, and faithfully, with surprises all along the way. These are indeed the wonder years"--Back cover.