March 16, 2024 – A

Dark Hollows Falls, 09/25/2011 — Shenandoah National Park, Skyline Drive, Virginia
There is the intuition 
to sense/realize/know
what needs to be done,
where,
when
and how--
and there is the will to do it.

And that is all there is to it.

To know,
will,
and do
what,
where,
when,
how,
through all of the circumstances
of our life.

Makes living attentively
from the heart,
in service to our heart
situation by situation
the greatest work of humankind.

Requiring us to empty ourselves
of all desire,
fear,
ambition,
duty,
obligation--
of anything and everything
that would interfere
with our tending the matters
of what,
where,
when,
how,
so that we might
see,
hear,
know
and do
what is called for
here and now
through all that remains
of our life on earth.

Which makes our relationship
with here and now
the most important thing
forever.

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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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