Remember this: no one can keep you from the second half of
life except yourself. Nothing can inhibit your second journey except your own
lack of courage, patience, and imagination. Your second journey is all yours to
walk or to avoid. My conviction is that some falling apart of the first journey
is necessary for this to happen, so do not waste a moment of time lamenting
poor parenting, lost jobs, failed relationships, physical handicaps, gender
identity, economic poverty, or even the tragedy of any kind of abuse. Pain is
part of the deal. If you don’t walk into the second half of your own life, it
is you who do not want it. God will always give you exactly what you truly want
and desire. So make sure you desire, desire deeply, desire yourself, desire
God, and desire everything good, true, and beautiful. Adapted from "Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life", p. 160, by Fr.
Richard Rohr.
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