June 02, 2024 – A

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Catawaba River Mirror 11/10/2019 — Landsford Canal State Park, Chester County, South Carolina
Things play themselves out over time.
Everyone with a vested interest in the outcome
influences the result
but no one is in control,
and however things unfold
will leave a lot to be desired,
thus, there is no outcome actually,
just an eternal continuation 
of "circumstances begetting circumstances,"
as the old Taoists observed around 500 BCE.

Even the Bible understands the absence of control,
with its "Time and chance happen to us all,"
and its "It rains on the just and the unjust alike."

So we take our seat with the Buddha
and let the world turn.
Happy to not be in charge of keeping anyone happy,
because we would be listening to grievances all 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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