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What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?

An expandable suitcase.

“‘Second half of life’ wisdom requires prayer and discernment more than knee-jerk responses toward either conservative or liberal ends of the spectrum. 

You have a spectrum of responses now, and they are not all predictable, as is too often the case with most knee-jerk responses. 


Law is still necessary, of course, but it is not your guiding star, or even close. It has been wrong and cruel too many times.

The Eight Beatitudes speak to you much more than the Ten Commandments as you grow older. 


Life is much more spacious now. 

The boundaries of the container have been enlarged. 

You are like an expandable suitcase, and you became so almost without your noticing. 

Now you are just here, and here holds more than enough.”  Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“And what happened then?  Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes that day.”  

…and here holds more than enough.

I have a GIVENNESS NOW to an expandable suitcase.