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The St. Andrew's Way

Our Spiritual Difference.

A Navigational tool for clergy, caregivers, seniors, and anyone embarking on a spiritual journey

The St. Andrew’s Resources For Seniors System’s Mission and Values are the cornerstone of our Faith-Based Life Plan Communities. This guides the culture and lifestyle on our senior living campuses. Spirituality is important as we age. "...to live by faith is to walk not necessarily against reason, but beyond it."

Spirituality as We Age Can Help Us To:

Find meaning in our past and current life experiences
Acknowledge our grief and loss and to achieve inner peace
Increase our desire for play
Enhance our creativity

Spiritual Inspiration.

By harnessing the power of the spirit we can use our experiences to nurture, heal, and perhaps even save a younger generation from the prison of how we typically regard aging.

-Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

While seniors perceive aging as a spiritual journey, they raise the priority of enhancing their relationships with God, loved ones, faith communities, and communities of residence.

-Blanchi, 1997

The reason God has engineered the spectacular increase in life expectancy in the last 100 years is because the world is so desperately in need of wisdom that God created elders.

-Emma Benignus, 2003

Buddhism, with its emphasis on dis-illusionment, views aging as holding the potential to serve as a spiritual path.

-Lewis Richmond

Much of the turmoil of my life has come from struggling to actualize some fantasy of self that is unfitting…but then in an instant, my perspectives shift, and I accept what before was problematic....

-Sam Keene