Description Write one comment with a small question for each post. POST 01 Francesca Watson In ...
Description Write one comment with a small question for each post. POST 01 Francesca Watson Integrity vs. Despair COLLAPSE How can a Christian cope with the experience of older adulthood and live victoriously? Describe ”integrity versus despair” (Kail & Cavanaugh, 2019, p. 508-509) according to Erikson. As we all know getting older every year does not get any better or worse, well to me that way. Thinking of leaving younger loved ones is so scary! Integrity in our late adulthood is making sense of our whole lives and why we are where we are at that given moment. Maybe it's that one choice or action we made growing up that made us who we are and also where we are in life. Despair in our late adulthood is very interesting to me. To me, it's someone who has lived their whole lives with regret and still does and has a hard time understanding their place in that world, basically thinking about the " What Ifs?", at all times. How can Christians view this phase in life with hope and perseverance? I believe that Christians are very understanding at this point in their lives. We understand and trust the process and are not afraid of what comes next. Our trust in God is what we lean on. Knowing that God won't leave our side during hard times keeps most going. Please describe and expand on both integrity and despair as potential responses to life changes in older adulthood in your discussion post. Provide examples of each. Integrity: Someone who looks back on their life with no regrets or questions. This person is very confident and happy. Being a positive person leads to such great things! Despair: Someone who is not a positive person and always wondering about what could have happened instead of focusing on what happened and making sure it's a positive feeling. POST 02 Kiley Cummings Integrity vs. Despair COLLAPSE I think that realizing we live on after death through our family, is a healthy way to think about death. My dad once told me, “I will always be with you and I am always with you because you are half of me.” And ever since, it has helped me cope with being away from him and my family as a military family. Grief is a process that I feel pushes us to appreciate God's gifts more. When we look at Erikson’s theory of Integrity Versus Despair, I think we can all agree that thinking of death and the future can be very nerve-wracking and bring anxiety about the unknown. It is a struggle for many to review the lives we have lived. “The struggle of integrity versus despair requires people to engage in a life review, the process by which people reflect on the events and experiences of their lifetimes. To achieve integrity, a person must come to terms with the choices and events that made his or her life unique. There must also be an acceptance of the fact that one’s life is drawing to a close” (Kail & Cavanaugh, 2019. Para. 2) Sometimes when people look at the past mistakes or choices they made, they live with regret and place blame. This leads people to live without integrity. As Christians, we have to remember how we are forgiven for our sins and that we can be redeemed. I really like Mark 11:25 as it reminds us that the grace He pours into our lives. “And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses” (Holy Bible, ESV. 2011). Though death is a scary thing so, I think we can all live victoriously by also remembering that heaven is our future and we will have eternal life in peace and love. We also cannot live in fear or waste moments on stress. Living life happy will help us leave our marks on the people we love, who one day we will leave behind. Kail, R. V., & Cavanaugh, J. C. (2019). Human development: A life-span view (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. (2011) Crossway
