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?
Footbridge 08/28/2012 Oil Paint Rendered — Peaks of Otter, Blue Ridge Parkway, Bedford, Virginia
Numen,
Numinous,
Ineffable,
Sublime,
Mana,
Brahman,
Atman,
Kami,
Wonder,
Awe...
These are words
for more than words can say.
Heinrich Zimmer said,
"The best things cannot be said,
the second-best things are misunderstood
(Because they are attempts to explain/say
what cannot be said),
and the third-best things
are what we are left to talk about
(News, weather, sports, commentary/opinion, gossip)."
Our solemn duty
is to place ourselves in the presence/company
of the terms at the top of the page,
and have the experience
of "that which cannot be told"
in a regular and recurring way.
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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