November 12, 2023 – B

The Y 06/16/2018 — Moses H Cone Memorial Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
How many "Y's" constitute our life?
How many more will there be?
I don't know how you "do it,"
but here is another possibility to consider:

Empty yourself of all thoughts and emotions,
memories and judgments.
Stand at the fork as empty as the space between breaths.
And without thinking,
without resorting to reason and logic,
without "doing it" as Spock would "do it,"
wait in the emptiness, stillness and silence,
until you find yourself walking,
without having decided/chosen to walk,
to the right,
or to the left,
or turning around and walking back the way you came.

It will be better than flipping a coin twice.

Or, perhaps, just different.

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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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