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?
Bright Angel Point 05-20-2010 Oil Paint Rendered — Grand Canyon National Park, North Rim, Arizona
Our life is lived between
"How much can we get by with?"
and "How much can we take/bear/stand/tolerate?"
Somewhere between those two poles,
optimal lies.
If we had some way of knowing,
"This is it.
It isn't going to get any better.
Enjoy it while you can."
That would take the pressure off
of trying endlessly to achieve/acquire/get/have
more/better/now.
That isn't going to happen.
Optimal exists,
but we don't know when or where,
thus, the life-long struggle
in the futile effort for more/better/now.
Or, we could opt for "good enough,"
and settle in with what we have
at any point along the 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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