Here is a post from Richard Rohr. His writings have been teaching me a lot, of late. Not your typical friar, he. Unexpected, perhaps. I am, too, I think.
The original is
here.
I am seeking to move more deeply into my Sacred Dance.
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LIVING A WHOLE LIFE
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Bill Plotkin speaks of the first half of life as doing our “survival dance.” The second half of life can then become our “sacred dance.” Most of us never get beyond our survival dance to ask the deep concerns of the soul (we are too busy “saving” our souls, whatever that means!) to do our sacred dance. Money, status symbols, group identity, and security are of limited value, but to the soul they are a distraction, and finally they become the very problem itself.
However, don’t misunderstand me—and I say this as strongly as I can—you’ve got to go through this first half of life and its concerns. Every level of growth builds on the previous ones. The principle is this: transcendence means including the previous stages. Then you can see the limited—but real—value of the early stages. But you will no longer put too much energy into just looking good, making money, feeling secure at all costs, and making sure you are right and others are wrong. That’s what it means to grow up, and Christians need to grow up just like everybody else.
Starter Prayer:
Help me grow up by going down.
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2 comments:
Dance to your hearts content.
That is a basic Jungian concept; first half of life is 'getting there'; the 2nd half of life is making it meaningful and where the actual growth occurs.
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