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Still Waters, Dock, and Lake (detail) by © Joelle Chase
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
The Second Half of Life
Sabbath Meditation Saturday, May 24, 2014
Remember: The Second Half of Life
In the second half of life, we can give our energy to making even the painful parts and the formerly excluded parts belong to the now-unified field. (Sunday)
In the second half, you try to influence events, work for change, quietly persuade, change your own attitude, pray, or forgive instead of attacking things head on. (Monday)
Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition. (Tuesday)
Because such people have built a good container, they are able to “contain” more and more truth, more and more neighbors, more and broader vision, more and more of a mysterious and outpouring God. (Wednesday)
We have moved from doing to being to an utterly new kind of doing that flows almost organically, quietly, and by osmosis.
(Thursday)
Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now. (Friday)
Rest: A Poem
Read these words aloud as a prayer for this stage of your life—the fullness and generativity of your being.
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear
without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.(Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
(Translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy))
Gateway to Silence: “May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back.” (Rainer Maria Rilke)
For further study:
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
(book and companion journal)
Loving the Two Halves of Life: The Further Journey
(CD, MP3 download)
A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
(CD)
The Two Major Tasks of the Spiritual Life
(CD, MP3 download)
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