Events & calendar

Sunday, February 4
9:30 am—Coffee and Cookies
10:00 am—Sunday School Class
10:55—Morning Service, Mission By All Means, Heather Devine Presiding, Al Mount, Speaking.
New Adult Sunday School Class starting January 14,2024
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
by Richard Rohr   (2011 print date)
Wayne Talcott will be facilitating the class.
You can buy it from amazon or any source of your choice.
See Nancy Skene or Jo Fenn-Martin if you have questions or need assistance.

Summary:
In the first half of life, we are naturally preoccupied with establishing ourselves; climbing, achieving, and performing. But as we grow older and encounter challenges and mistakes, 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.

Falling Upward offers a new paradigm for understanding one of the most profound of life’s mysteries: how those who have fallen down are the only ones who understand “up”. We grow spiritually more by doing it wrong than by doing it right, and the disappointments of life are actually steppingstones to the spiritual joys in the second half of life.