June 05, 2024 – A

Lake Crandall 11/19/2019 — Anne Springs Close Greenway, Fort Mill, South Carolina
It comes down to what we make of it.
To what we do with it.
To who we become because of it.

We are it.
It is us.
Where does that line lie?

And my death,
our death,
is a continuation of it.
It goes on.
And on, and on...

And so do we--
in an altered state of being,
but we are a form of energy,
a collection of various forms of energy,
psychic energy,
karmic energy,
kinetic energy,
thermal energy,
electrical energy,
radiant energy...
and energy cannot be created or destroyed,
only transformed or converted.

What form shall our conversion take?
That is the mystery
we wait to experience,
and to spend any time pondering it
is to waste the time that is ours
in this incarnation.
Why do that?
Why not spend our time exploring,
examining,
investigating,
probing,
inquiring,
experimenting,
intuiting,
reflecting,
realizing,
and making the most of the time at hand?

What would "making the most
of the time at hand" mean for you?

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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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