June 02, 2024 – B

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Bridge to Rough Ridge 09/30/2018 — Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
I hand out business cards
with a photograph I've taken on one side

And these terms on the other side:

Balance. Harmony. 
Original Nature. 
Innate Virtues (What you love to do and enjoy doing most). 
Intrinsic Intuition. 
Integrity. 
Sincerity. 
Spontaneity. 
Vitality. 
Emptiness. 
Stillness. 
Silence. 
Imagination. 
Reflection. 
Realization. 
Compassion. 
Generosity.
Kindness. 
Flow. 
Looking/Listening.
Seeing/Hearing. 
Knowing. 
Trusting. 
Being. 
Doing.

With these instructions:

"Reflect on the image
and the connections you make with it 
and your life.

Reflect on these terms
and the connections you make with them
and your life."

Joseph Campbell said that
reflection leads to new realizations.

Realization leads to new ways of living.

New ways of living transform the world.

Transforming the world
is something religion talks about
and never does.

It is time to take up the work
of sitting in the right kind of emptiness,
stillness and silence
with reflection and realization
and see where it goes.

No?

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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