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?
Heron at Sunset Panorama 01/23/2013 Oil Paint Rendered — Lake Brandt Greenway, Bur-Mil Park, Greensboro, North Carolina
Emptiness,
stillness
and silence
are the sources
of the future,
our own and that
of the cosmos.
What does not come
from emptiness,
stillness
and silence,
comes from chaos
and anarchy,
and people trying
to force their way
through the world,
as though they know
where they are going,
when all they know is what they want,
and what they fear--
not caring if it is worth wanting,
or anything to be afraid of.
Return to the emptiness.
Sit in the stillness.
Listen to the silence.
And wait for the guidance
that comes from the source
of mystery and life
beyond knowing and telling/saying/explaining,
as a beckoning from the mover
to the moved.
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, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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