September 01, 2023 – B

Duckie 02 11-05-2012 Oil Paint Rendered — The Bog Garden, Greensboro, North Carolina
Nothing is more important 
than finding and living aligned with
the flow of our life--
which means finding and living
the life that is our life to live,
finding and doing our thing
within the circumstances of our life.

My thing is hermenutics,
getting to the bottom of it all,
beginning with this moment,
here and now,
moment after moment,
meeting the moment
and doing what is asked of me by it,
in it--
while dealing with all the things
in the moment trying to knock me off
my thing,
and make me forget who I am
and what I am about,
here and now,
moment after moment.

Our first order of business
is to find our life and live it,
to find what is ours to do
with the skill set we possess,
our original nature
and the virtues/characteristics 
that are built into our DNA,
and do it here/now
all our life long.

Instead, we look for some pay-off,
some benefit/advantage/reward,
and wonder when it is going to be
our turn,
screw the moment and its need of us
to grace it with our presence
here/now all our life long.

And so, the need to find our live
and live it,
to find our thing and do it
with fealty,
liege loyalty
and filial devotion,
here/now all our life long.

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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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