August 12, 2023 – A

Aho Valley Panorama 11/05/2021 Oil Paint Rendered — Boone, North Carolina
We feel our way into our life.
Practice doing that
by feeling your way into what you wear tomorrow,
and feeling your way into what you eat for lunch,
and into all of the decisions/choices you make
that are not forced on you by circumstances.

Learn to read your body,
to know your body's signals,
to allow your body to lead the way
through the day each day.

Check everything out with your body--
not with your head.

Our head is good for how to do things,
what things to do are the body's prerogative.

Letting our body take the lead
is essential in living in sync with,
aligned with,
in accord with,
the flow of vitality, life and being,
doing the right thing
at the right time
in the right way
in the right place,
laughing at how we can know 
what needs to be done
without thinking about it.

It is a wonderful mystery,
and links us with the heart
of transcendent being/reality,
which is more than words can say,
but not more than can be known.

And our body is the path to knowing.

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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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