May 13, 2024 – A

The Dairy Barn 02 B — Anne Springs Close Greenway, Fort Mill, South Carolina
Opinions, plans and adgendas
interfere with our ability
to read the signs of the times,
know what's what
and what's called for in response
out of our original nature
and intrinsic virtues/virtuosites
(The things we do best
and love doing most),
when/where/how it needs to be done
in each situation as it arises
no matter what
all our life long.

Which is to say that living in the service
of what we desire/want to happen
keeps us from living in the service
of what is called for here/now
and doing what needs to be done.

We prevent from happening
what needs to happen
in living to serve
our opinions, plans and agendas.

We block our life from being
what it could by
insisting on what we desire/want
at the expense of all other things.

And we can turn things around
like that (snaps fingers),
just by changing our mind
about what's important.

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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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