May 17, 2024 – A

Para Sailing — Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Pamlico Sound, Hatteras Island, Outer Banks, North Carolina
The world is a mess beyond correction,
but.
That means there is always something
we can do to make things better here/now
wherever/whenever we are.

And it is our place to do what needs to be done
anyway, nevertheless even so, no matter what,
when it needs to be done,
where it needs to be done,
how it needs to be done,
because it needs to be done,
and needs us to do it,
with the gifts we have to offer
from our original nature,
our intrinsic virtues/virtuosites
(The things we do best and love to do most),
our inherent intuition,
our spirit,
vitality,
and knack for this kind of thing.

And don't give me the drift
about how it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter that it doesn't matter!
We are here to give our best to the moment
even if it is our last moment!
Or, our next to last moment!

We have a life to live even so,
even yet,
even now,
and it would not be right to not live it
all the way to the end of the line.

Let To The End Of The Line be your mantra
for the days, weeks, months, years left to us.
And live like you mean it every day!
And mean it.
Every day!

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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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