October 14, 2023 – A

Mother and Child — Baxter State Park, Millinocket, Maine, October 9, 2009
We all need a sounding board.
A sounding board is all we need.
In world of balance and harmony,
we all would be our own sounding board,
sitting down with ourselves
on a regular basis
in a dependable kind of way
to talk things over
and think things through
in order to see what we look at
and do what needs to be done about it,
day in and day out
all our life long.

We have within a tuning fork of sorts,
and the capability of harmonizing ourselves
with ourselves
within the circumstances of our life,
if we but take the time to check in
and check things out
and find our way back to who we are
and what is ours to do.

Resonance is our most dependable state of being.
Resonating with ourselves 
and what is ours to do
keeps us on track,
in focus,
in tune,
on the beam,
at one with who we are
and what is ours to do
within the circumstances
of time and place
here and now
all along the way.

Right relationship with ourselves
enables right relationship
with those who are capable
of right relationship with themselves,
and makes things as right 
as they can be,
given the nature of life in the moment of living.

The ground of right relationship
is loving/trusting ourselves day-to-day,
and being worthy of love/trust
is to be capable of love/trust
with ourselves and one another.

Love/trust is not a feeling,
not an emotion,
so much as it is an attitude,
a state of mind and being.

It is founded upon listening/hearing,
looking/seeing,
knowing/not-kidding
ourselves or one another
about who we are and what's what
and what we will do and not do about it all.

Truth.
Living truthfully.
Lovingly.
Trustingly. 
Keeping good faith
with ourselves and one another.

Enables us to remain on track,
in focus,
in tune,
on the beam,
at one with who we are
and what is ours to do
within the circumstances
of time and place
here and now
all along the way.

We are what we need
if we will but do what we need to do
to realize/remember it/tend it/serve it
all along the way.

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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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