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4
Sep
2020
I had my 84th birthday earlier this week. It’s a privilege to have lived this long.
Franciscan priest Richard Rohr has written several books about the process of aging. Basically, he suggests, the first half of life is about acquiring -- possessions, wealth, friends, family. The second half is about letting go -- of our acquisitions, our ideas, eventually our lives.
Recently, he’s been writing about a pattern of spirituality. He calls it Order, Disorder, and Re-Order.
In his terms, we inherit from our parents, our friends, and our social culture an understanding of the world we live in. That’s the Order. We don’t question it; we just accept it.
Then as we mature, we discover that the old Order doesn’t work as well as it should. So we reject bits and pieces of what we used to take for granted.
And then eventually, we re-organize our lives and our understandings into a new Order.
Categories: Soft Edges
Tags: Rohr, order disorder reorder