Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Spring Carpet 04/16/2006 — White Fringed Phacelia, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
What would it take
for you to enjoy being
who you are?
For you to enjoy your life?
What do you enjoy in a day?
Make it your thing
to enjoy what remains
of the time left for living!
Music.
Friends.
Art.
Poetry.
Nature.
Food...
Make your list
of the enjoyable aspects of life and being,
and focus on those things.
And do not dwell on,
or spend time with,
the un-enjoyable elements
of the days that are upon us.
Seek out the goodness of these days!
Bring goodness to life
in your life
and in the lives of others!
Embrace the joy,
refuse despair,
reject dejection,
tell gloom
to find someone else to burden.
Bring life to life
in the way you live
each day!
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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We engage our life in the struggle for the right kind of perspective in each situation as it arises. It is a work that has no end. Right seeing, right interpretation, right perception is the foundation for right responding, right living. Our daily devotional practice is sitting with our seeing until we see it, perceive it as it is and respond appropriately to our seeing and our doing–and help one another in the work of right seeing, right doing, every day.
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Thanks for the reminder.
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We engage our life in the struggle for the right kind of perspective in each situation as it arises. It is a work that has no end. Right seeing, right interpretation, right perception is the foundation for right responding, right living. Our daily devotional practice is sitting with our seeing until we see it, perceive it as it is and respond appropriately to our seeing and our doing–and help one another in the work of right seeing, right doing, every day.
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I love this, Jim! Why not and what else is there. It is a mind game 🙂
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