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?
Patricia Lake Reflection 09/22/2007 Oil Paint Rendered — Jasper National Park, Canadian Rockies, Alberta
What guides our boat on its path through the sea?
What idea of how things ought to be
do we live to impose upon each situation as it arises?
How do we know that is how things ought to be?
How does how we want things to be
impact our actions in each situation as it arises?
What is the origin of our wants?
What does wanting know?
How does what we ought to want
impact what we do want?
How do we know what we ought to want?
Who says so?
We live in the service of some idea
of how our life needs to be lived--
where does that idea come from?
How valid is it as a directing influence
on our life?
As a guiding impetus in each situation as it arises?
What are we living to do, to get, to have, to be?
What guides our boat on its path though the sea?
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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