November 04, 2023 – A

Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory — Verona Island and Prospect, Maine 09/29/2010
Consider the infrastructure required
for this bridge to do its job
at optimum efficiency.

Optimum efficiency demands balance and harmony,
whether it is a bridge in question
or you
and all the things that keep you running
at optimum efficiency.

Each of us is this bridge,
dependent upon our sitz im leben 
to keep us going.

How's your balance and harmony these days?
What can you do to improve it?
What is beyond your control
that you need to help you maintain and sustain
your balance and harmony?

These are essential questions to answer.
Everything depends upon our balance and harmony.
We have to do our part,
and the larger world has to do its part.

Toilet paper and electriity
are important elements
in the maintenance of my balance and harmony.
And a hot shower.
And the right cup of coffee...

We hang by a thread.
Start messing with our balance and harmony
and it all goes to hell like that (Snaps fingers).

We live to serve our balance and harmony.
Our balance and harmony
live to serve us.

Being aware of the tenuous nature of our position
may lead us to stop taking it for granted,
and honor it with our attention,
and guard it with our life.

How might you tend your balance and harmony
today?

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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.

2 thoughts on “November 04, 2023 – A

  1. We humans are creatures of habit. It is said that “a shoe that fits right does not bite”. When everything routine (the toilet paper, electricity and coffee) in our lives are smoothly flowing, all our faculties are left free to attend to ‘higher’ non mundane things of importance. Balance and harmony in the basics is essential for us to express our full potential beyond just surviving, and is no minor thing. Thank you for the reminder!

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