Falling Upward: A Spirituality For The Two Halves Of Life

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For us, it is the tragic sense of life that matters, the sense that growth and redemption spring naturally from inevitable sins and necessary sorrows. As part of my continuing exploration of spiritual books in preparation for a June retirement, I decided, on the recommendation of a trusted few, to read Richard Rohr's Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life. BB: I mean, especially when I think about this, like, could you imagine going to a church that where the task was healing, reconciling, forgiving, and peacemaking? Or perhaps tragedy or suffering befalls us, a crisis by which our first-phase-of-life is up-ended and we are thrust out of our life, as it were, and into a further journey. If we recognize this, it guards us from losing hope by having false expectations and expecting, or even demanding, what these groups cannot give.

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and relinquishes the need for certainty or control because they trust in the overarching ‘coherence, purpose, benevolence, and direction’ of the universe.We laughed, I cried a little, we laughed some more, and I told him why his work pisses me off sometimes. I find that paradigm very helpful, but that’s from Ken Wilber, who in my opinion is the wisest philosopher of religion on the American scene. Father Rohr is very comfortable in interfaith circles, but he has a decidedly Franciscan vein in his approach to spirituality.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

The second half of life is about learning to recognize, honor, and love this voice and this indwelling Presence, which feels like your own voice too.An internationally known speaker, he teaches on such themes as adult Christian spirituality, men’s spirituality, and politics and spirituality, and has published many books, including Falling Upward and Immortal Diamond (SPCK, 2012 and 2013 respectively).

Falling Upward: A Spirituality For The Two Halves Of Life

It’s fine to have a favorite few authors, but he doesn’t just quote them on different topics, he uses the same quote from the same author multiple times. His superb new book on the Trinity is vintage Rohr: clearheaded, provocative, inspiring, challenging, and, most of all, suffused with the presence of the Holy Spirit. Rohr is a Franciscan priest with a particularly capacious sense of what it means to be Christian (which I'm not, but this feels like a book about Christianity that is really for everyone).There is more, however to this story, and oftentimes the unconscious pushes us into terra incognito. Join spiritual seekers from around the world and discover your place in the Great Story Line connecting us all in the One Great Life.

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The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. As someone who’s been sober for a long time and hopes to be so tomorrow, Breathing Under Water is a really important book for me. And you hear people, I won’t mention… A former president that we had here, whose whole talks are just grievances. So if we properly understand how to mature, we live inside the structures of of life in our younger years and then we learn when to leave the structures of live in our older years. To live on the edge of the inside is different than being an insider, a "company man" or a dues paying member.The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective (with Andreas Ebert) (1995, reissued by Crossroad Publishing Co, U. In fact, one of the people who worked for the city said, “This neighborhood…” and it’s the poorer part of town as you can tell, but, “has the lowest crime rate of the whole city of Albuquerque,” and he attributed it to us. I'm not sure how much this book will be appreciated by those who have not read some of Rohr's earlier work. Rohr has helped me realize that much of the impatience and frustration I have been feeling with certain trends in my profession (I am a teacher at a Catholic high school) may derive from the fact that my own path has moved beyond the institutional structures that inform and often dictate what I can accomplish.