August 11, 2023 – B

Tobacco Barn and Hay Rake 12/16/2007 Oil Paint Rendered — Rural North Carolina
We live our way to enlightenment/
realization/
understanding/
knowing/
being/
doing...

We don't think or way there.
No one can tell us how to do it
beyond,
"Practice, practice, practice!"

Practice what?

Listening to/looking into
emptiness,
stillness,
silence.

Listening/looking for
hints/expressions/exhibitions/revelations of
our original nature
and the innate virtues/traits/specalties
that reside in our DNA,
seeking the light of day.

When we get it,
what we get
is being who we are,
doing what is ours to do,
when/where/how it is called for
in response to what is happening
and what needs to be done about it.

We live our way to US!
To being ourselves in ways
that serve a good beyond ourselves!

No wonder no one can tell us how to do that!
No one knows us the way we know us,
if only we will get out of the way
and look/listen for 
hints/expressions/exhibitions/revelations...
And start doing what only we can do
in meeting the circumstances of our life
as only we can
in the time left for living.

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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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