I once heard a speaker comment that the word we will use most often upon our arrival in heaven is "Aha!"
We will suddenly understand how all our trials and troubles on earth worked together for our good because we will no longer see the glass darkly.
What if a great book could accelerate our seeing...now?
Richard Rohr, in Falling Upward, takes the storyline that is, in fact, the essence of our life on this earth and connects dots we didn't even understand were ours to connect.
A master chef can take the ingredients you already have in your kitchen and create a masterpiece dish that you had no idea you could have made.
So it is with Richard Rohr. He takes the life we already have on this earth and shows us how it becomes a masterpiece life, full of the Master Himself, and signature in that we can uncover the second half of our spiritual life's journey that is the inner blueprint of our soul.
A hard-working young man I know said recently, "I work really hard day after day, accumulating this or that, and realize that it will all be gone someday. It makes me wonder what life is really about."
That young man is about to uncover the inner blueprint of his soul. He is about to step into the second half of his life though only in his twenties. He detects the yearning in his heart hardwired into him by God before a single of his days was begun.
Want to come along? Want to realize that there is a second half for your life that comes after the things we pursue, acquire and fashion into our identity during the first half of adulthood?
Richard Rohr gives this discovery a name. He calls it falling upward.
Yes, we must fall. But how beautiful to think it would be...upward.
