Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr

I read this book for another reading group and enjoyed it very much; it is a bit circular, but that is the nature of the subject matter.  Anyway, it is a good book with wonderful insights. From the inside cover:

In the first half of life, we are naturally and rightly preoccupied with establishing our identity--climbing, achieving, and performing. But those concerns will not serve us as we grow older and begin to embark on a further journey, one that involves challenges, mistakes, loss of control, broader horizons, and necessary suffering that actually shocks us out of our prior comfort zone. Eventually, we need to see ourselves in a different and more life-giving way. This message of "falling down"--that is in fact moving upward--is the most resisted and counterintuitive of messages in the world's religions  including and most especially Christianity.

p. 42: ". . . want to circle the wagons around their imagined secure and superior group; who seem preoccupied with clothing, titles, perks, and externals of religion; and frankly have little use for the world beyond their own control or explanation. Ecumenism, interfaith dialogue, and social justice are dead issues for them."

First there is the fall, and then we recover from the fall. Both are the mercy of God! -Lady Julian