June 06, 2023 – A

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Black Balsam Dawn 05/28/2011 Oil Paint Rendered — Blue Ridge Parkway near Brevard, North Carolina
How many people do you know
who talk without saying anything
worth thinking about or remembering?

Social chatter consumes our lives. 

Hair salon talk.
Bar talk.
Church talk.
Family reunion talk.
Dinner party talk.
The list is long.

We spend a lot of time saying nothing.
Hearing nothing.
Wasting our life
on things that don't matter.

What do we have to say that needs saying?

What enables and sustains
your balance and harmony?

Where do you go to talk about that?

What disrupts, unsettles, destabilizes your life?

Where do you go to talk about that?

What vitalizes your life,
infuses your life with wonder
and joy,
radiance,
delight?

How often do you spend time with that,
talking about that?

Where do you find the flow of vital energy
in your life?

How often do you experience that flow,
merge with it,
live in sync with it?
Deliberately?
Consciously?
Intentionally?

What upsets/destroys that flow? 

Where do you go to talk about these things?

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Published by jimwdollar

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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