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Spirituality and the Two Halves of Life

Spirituality and the Two Halves of Life. FIRST HALF SECOND HALF Age 20-45 Age 45 to 70+. FIRST HALF SECOND HALF Age 15 to 45 Age 45 to 75+ TRANSITION. How does God form us in the 1 st

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Spirituality and the Two Halves of Life

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  1. Spirituality and the Two Halves of Life

  2. FIRST HALF SECOND HALF Age 20-45 Age 45 to 70+

  3. FIRST HALF SECOND HALF Age 15 to 45 Age 45 to 75+ TRANSITION

  4. How does God form us in the 1st • half of life? In the 2nd? • 2. What unique assets and advantages • does each half hold? • 3. How do we process the transition • between the halves? • 4. How do we avoid the pitfalls that • sabotage us along the way?

  5. Spirituality and the Two Halves of Life Stage of Ascent Needs to Make Promises to Grow Stage of Descent Needs to Rest in God’s Promises to Grow Old Fool Embittered Fool F===Fool Crisis of Limitations Heroic Journey Holy Fool

  6. Identity • Idealism • Convictions Heroic Journey

  7. Identity • Idealism • Convictions Heroic Journey Angry Fool (over and out)

  8. Limitations: Our bodies Our vocation Our relationships Crisis of Limitations

  9. Disillusionment is a divine gift! It allows, even demands, that we reorient ourselves to reality. Mark Muesse

  10. Success has nothing to teach you after you reach thirty. Richard Rohr

  11. Spiritual Formation in the Ministry Old Fool Embittered Fool Crisis of Limitations Heroic Journey Wounds Must Become Sacred Holy Fool

  12. Why the Transition is Difficult? because… The Second Half is Unmapped

  13. Wholly unprepared, we embark upon the second half of life… worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning: for what was great in the morning will be little in the evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening become a lie. Carl Jung

  14. Given Western societies’ revulsion against middle age, the map of the youth culture leads us to the edge of the known world, whereupon is simply drops off. We have been as ignorant about what lies on the other side as were Columbus and the early explorers of the New World. New Passages – Gail Sheehy

  15. Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke up to find myself alone in a dark wood. How shall I say what wood that was! I never saw so drear, so rank, so arduous a wilderness! It’s very memory gives a shape to fear. Death could scarce be more bitter than that place! Dante’s epic poem – The Inferno

  16. If you are lucky, God will lead you to a situation you cannot control, you cannot fix, or you cannot even understand. At that point true spirituality begins. Up to that point is all just preparation. Richard Rohr

  17. Limitations Lead To Transformation Old Fool Embittered Fool Crisis of Limitations Heroic Journey Wounds Must Become Sacred Holy Fool

  18. The second half of life ought to be about the deepening of our spiritual natures. It should not be about acquisition but about relinquishment, not about acting but accepting, not about mastery but mystery. Mark Meusse

  19. Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away (getting old and breaking down), yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. II Corinthians 4:16

  20. I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. John 12:24-25

  21. The forties are the gateway to a new beginning, beyond the narrow roles and rules of the first half.” New Passages by Gail Sheehy

  22. The Circle of Control

  23. The Circle Of Control

  24. The Circle Of Influence

  25. Spiritual Formation in the Ministry Old Fool Embittered Fool Crisis of Limitations Heroic Journey Wounds Must Become Sacred Holy Fool Wounds become sacred Secure enough to be insecure

  26. It’s almost as if you have to forgive the things that happened in the first half of your life – the people who failed you and the ways you failed yourself – in order to go on for the second half. Gail Sheehy

  27. What Kind of a Fool… Old Fool Embittered Fool Crisis of Limitations Heroic Journey Wounds Must Become Sacred Holy Fool Wounds become sacred Secure enough to be insecure

  28. Jesus to Peter: I tell you the truth, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” John 21:18

  29. Spirituality in the First Half • Mastery • Spirituality in the Second Half • Mystery • Mentoring

  30. Discussion questions: Which is the greater temptation for you… becoming an “old fool” or becoming an “embittered fool?” Have you experienced the “crisis of limitations?” How did it change you? Is there a Christian leader in your life who people recognize as the “holy fool”? Describe this person.

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