January 03, 2024 – A

Pamlico Sound Sunset 11/05/2006 — Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Outer Banks, Ocracoke Island, North Carolina
We are all waiting for clarity.
Native Americans go on vision quests
looking for clarity.
They could as well
sit under a tree
or by a steam or pond or ocean,
and wait for something to arise
in the silence
as a clarifying image
sent from The Mystery,
which is our own psyche,
and, not to be dismissive,
connects us with the psyche of the universe.

So that we all hum the same tune,
or the same tone,
and seek clarity from the same source.

It is not farfetched to say
that psychic energy runs the whole show,
the light show,
the gravity show,
the cosmos show,
down to the microscopic universe show.

And we connect with that energy
and are expressions of it,
and are invited to explore it,
investigate it,
probe it,
play with it,
and wonder with it through all of the possibilities
of consciousness and unconsciousness
(Which is all that we are not conscious of).

So, go sit under a tree,
and wait for what arises
as a clarifying image
to accompany you
and lead you along your life's 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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