Holding The Tension: The Power Of Paradox

Holding The Tension: The Power Of Paradox AUDIO BOOK CD Fr. Richard Rohr Ingham Type: Audio Book Platform: Audio CD Publisher: Fr. Richard Rohr, Sr. Mary Beth Ingham Released: 2007 Media: CD  Holding the Tension of Opposites - Richard Rohr**How do you hold the tension of the opposites that you talk about on a practical level? How do you live with your own contradictions and inconsistencies, especially those magnified by the contradictions and inconsistencies of our government and our church?**Richard Rohr begins this presentation with a quote from Gerald May’s book, *The Wisdom of Wilderness*:> **God save me from coping. > God help me to join, not separate. > Help me to be with and in, not apart from. > Show me the way of savoring, not controlling. > Dear God, hear my prayer. > Make me forever cope-less.**We were never taught to stop, savor, and hold our feelings of fear, anger, grief, or loneliness. Instead, we were taught to get rid of our pain before we