April 23, 2024 – A

Looking Glass Falls — Pisgah National Forest, Transylvania County, North Carolina
There is nothing wrong with us
that getting rid of all of our
opinions, ideas, judgments, expectations,
desires, fears, animosities, ways of seeing,
thinking, believing, points of view, etc.
wouldn't cure "like that"!

So why not get rid of them?
Just stop engaging in any of them.
Simply settle into seeing/hearing
what is called for
in each situation as it arises,
and doing that
with the gifts of our original nature
and our inherent virtuosities
(The things we do best
and enjoy/love doing most),
when, where and how it needs to be done,
and letting that be that,
moving on to what else is called for here/now,
day-by-day
throughout the time left for living.

That would transform everything.

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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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