January, 2024

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Moonrise 09/26/2007 — Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona
Meeting the moment as the moment needs to be met
and doing there what needs to be done there,
is not as simple as it sounds,
because self-interest gets in the way.

Do we live for self
or do we live for the moment?
Adam and Eve answer for us all.

Theirs is such a wonderful expression
of the human condition!
What a story!
The writer, or writers,
nailed us as well as any writer, or writers
since have nailed us--
and a lot have done really well.

Seeing ourselves exposed so clearly
in Adam and Eve
provides us with a life time 
of meditative reflection
on the self-serving nature of human nature,
and should have by now awakened us
to the need for standing up to ourselves,
saying, "Enough is enough!"

But, no.
On and on we go.
Needing awareness, awareness, awareness
and practice, practice, practice
to meet the moment as it needs to be met,
and do there what needs to be done.

The work of being human
carries over into 2024
with best wishes and hope for the best!

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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