April 28, 2024 – A

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
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Our life is our path.
How we live it is who we are.
What we do with our life is who we are.
What we do is who we are.

"What I do is me--for that I came,"
said Gerard Manley Hopkins,
for all of us.

What is it about your life
that you are proud of?
Do more of that.

What is it about your life
that you are ashamed of?
Do less of that.

There you are.

Live to be you--
consciously,
intentionally,
deliberately--
in all that you do.

We cannot ask for more than that,
and to do other than that 
is to betray ourselves.

We have what remains of the life
left for living
to express/exhibit/serve/be who we are.

Why waste a second not doing that?

If you don't know who you are,
examine what you are proud of
and what you are ashamed of,
and live to be proud of you.

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.

3 thoughts on “April 28, 2024 – A”

    1. And who says so? WE do! We say who we are! Nobody tells us who and how to be–we figure it out on our own by knowing what we are proud of and what we are ashamed of, and doing more of one and less of the other, all the way! And we are all doing great, by the way, whether we know it or not, and doing better all the time. If we are going to take anything on faith, let it be this, and live as though it is so! Because it is! And doing so (living as though it is) will make all the difference!

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