Fall Months, 2023

Common As A Yard Dog — Orange Day Lilies Cover The South
Our luck improves
when we stop pushing it,
and simply attend what needs
our attention,
doing what is called for
in each situation as it arises,
and relaxing into trusting our luck
to be what it needs to be
when we allow things to go
the way they need to go.

Pushing,
shoving,
forcing,
striving,
create resistence
in an "equal and opposite force" sense,
and we produce opposition to our way
by trying to have it.

The trick is to not have a way,
just see what needs to happen
and what can happen,
and assist what needs to be
in becoming what can be,
and let that be that.

Allowing things to be the way they are
is the biggest contribution we can make
in helping things become what they need to be. 

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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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