September 07, 2023 – A

Through the Trees — Goodale 01 11-14-2014 Oil Paint Rendered — Goodale State Park, Camden, South Carolina
You have to do you the way you would do you
given all you know about you
and your current circumstances.

What do you have to offer
out of your original nature
and your innate virtues/characteristics?
Your specialties and perspective?

What does the situation call for?
What does it need from you
that you can provide 
out of your storehouse of goods and services?
With your forte, your "thing"?

Speaking of "thing," 
what are the things that make you you?
How might that be called for
in the present moment?

Turn to you in all things.
You are your guide through all things.
What would you do here and now?
Do it and see what that has to tell you
about what to do next time
some similar occasion/situation arises.
How would you do it differently next time?

We find our way through life this way.
Trusting ourselves to learn from ourselves
and our circumstances
how to do it better.
"It" being our life. 

"Better" in terms of balance and harmony,
smoothness and flow.

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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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