{"id":78144,"date":"2024-06-13T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=78144"},"modified":"2024-06-14T00:09:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T05:09:41","slug":"making-good-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=78144","title":{"rendered":"Making Good Return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"f855edc6-89df-4e8d-bd8c-313f0cfe3d85\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-drop-cap\">I don\u2019t think I am overstating the matter when I say that this has the potential to be one of the most important books you will read. It\u2019s a book that may shape years of your life and transform the way you carry out one of the key roles God assigns to you. It\u2019s a book about caring for your parents as they age.<\/p>\n<aside data-beyondwords-marker=\"ac7d7707-362c-4e6f-9103-e6135b58ccd8\" class=\"wp-block-group alignright challies-book is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" id=\"book\">\n<header data-beyondwords-marker=\"e4d2d055-106c-410c-9e36-7a0c83b3d376\" class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"> Making Good Return <\/p>\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"ca630a61-2821-4a92-8cf1-f22695c56b35\" class=\"wp-block-group book-meta is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"8d26f7e7-9988-488e-b2e9-47ad9466e8ec\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph book-author\">Kathleen Nielson<\/p>\n<figure data-beyondwords-marker=\"a8b895d0-8697-43bb-9748-0e2f1171ab12\" class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium book-cover has-box-shadow\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"dba0c578-cbf2-46fe-a3b0-a81b5f05e61d\" class=\"wp-block-buttons book-links is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"275e6509-37c0-4b82-9dcb-eae78a5535e1\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/making-good-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from Amazon<\/a> <\/p>\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"a78cff7f-fcc0-4418-881d-20933a5ab7c1\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/products\/making-good-return-biblical-wisdom-on-honoring-aging-parents-9798887790282?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from WTS Books<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"6fbb07cd-1ed9-420f-aaa6-624c95e27c53\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has long concerned me that modern Western society doesn\u2019t quite seem to know what to do with aging parents. What may be obvious and instinctual in some cultures, isn\u2019t necessarily so in ours with its high premium on independence and autonomy. And as the massive boomer generation heads into their twilight years, the issue will become even more widespread and even more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t think I am overstating the matter when I say that this has the potential to be one of the most important books you will read. It\u2019s a book that may shape years of your life and transform the way you carry out one of the key roles God assigns to you\u2026See AlsoA La Carte (9\/22)A La Carte (4\/20)The Faith of Condoleeza Rice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":78159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[854],"class_list":["post-78144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-book-reviews","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/lightstock_63004_medium_tim_challies-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1087&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78160,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78144\/revisions\/78160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}