Dancing Standing Still: Healing the World From a Place of Prayer; A New Edition of a Lever and a Place to Stand
Richard Rohr [Rohr, Richard]But then I wondered, “What if he doesn’t live up to my expectations?”. What I didn’t understand was that someone who had meditated so deeply on the life of Christ, on the Jewish and Christian scriptures, on the lives of the saints, and, especially, on the story of his beloved St. Francis of Assisi, would be exactly who Richard Rohr turned out to be that night: humble, attentive, insightful, compassionate, and, in a word, alive. What astonished me most about our convivial dinner was how the great man seemed not interested at all in talking about himself, his many books and speaking engagements, or even his marvelous Center for Action and Contemplation. Rather, he was profoundly interested in the Other, or rather the others—the two people with whom he dined that night, much as I imagineJesus was always lovingly attentive to those with whom he ate, worked, and prayed.