Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Beidler Forest 11/22/2019 13 Panorama B Oil Paint Rendered — Audubon Four Hole Swamp Wildlife Refuge, Harleyville, South Carolina
If we don’t know
whether something will work,
we only have to give it a spin.
Everything becomes clear with time,
even to those seeped in denial.
Start walking with awareness
and the path will open before you—
and if the path you think is the path
turns out to not be the path,
sit with emptiness,
stillness and silence
until something arises
that beckons you,
and start walking.
If that turns out to not be the path,
sit with emptiness,
stillness and silence
until something beckons you
and start walking…
And so on,
for the rest of the time
left for walking.
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters and five granddaughters within about twenty minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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