Comments on: Back to Base Camp

By: hamo

hamo — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:52:49 +0000

Hey Dave

Was just listening to your MP3 about your book and found it interesting to hear you speak of ’swimming upstream’ against the deadly flow of suburban life.

I am leading a mission team in suburbia in Oz seeking to do exactly that. I’ll have to get a hold of your book and read!

Our website it http://upstream.org.au

Look forward to hearing your thoughts and seeing how they translate to Oz

By: Michelle Van Loon

Michelle Van Loon — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:23:59 +0000

I work part-time in a college bookstore, and as I listen to the struggles my 18-26 year old co-workers have (”What am I supposed to be doing with my life?”, “Who am I?”) I have told them that being 46 (like I am) means that the same kinds of questions that bubble up in early adulthood will make a return appearance. I have more life experience to shape my answers to those questions, but I also have far less time and strength to pursue the answers I may uncover. The truth is – I am powerless. Father Rohr is right.

The Bible tells us that the second half of our lives are our wisdom years. Our society tells us that we should hope we die before we get old. (In other words, try to control or somehow avoid death.)

I am coming to terms with what it means to descend that mountain with grace instead of fighting for a piece of real estate on the mountain top.

Quick note: What a wonderful profile in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune. Congratulations!

By: Ann Price

Ann Price — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:36:17 +0000

The climb, however, is never about the goal–always about the process…and so too there is a process in the descent.

For me the last half of life is more about putting things in place for death…the reward for a life lived.

I can find peace in the first step of a journey and solace in the last…and triumph in the entire process…