June 17, 2024 – B

Bet’cha Never Saw Anything Like This On Your Walks In The Woods — Flat Branch Greenway, Charlotte, North Carolina
“God” does not have to be, need to be, 
posited in any of it.

In “God,” we find a well-developed projection of ourselves
(Our idea of our “best self”)
that is “believed to be ‘Out There’”
but is actually only faith in faith.

We could as well consider it to be faith in ourselves.

There is no reason or need to posit “God”!
And it is self-deception to do so.

“How then shall we live?”
is ours to determine for ourselves.

And “saying, ‘Yes!’ to Availability and Vulnerability”
is a very fine way to live!
Which we are quite capable of determining on our own,
out of our own contemplation,
reflection and realization—
without the need of a source
beyond our own awareness
of our own Body-Mind connection.

We have all it takes,
all that is required,
to realize/know and do
what needs to be done,
when, where and how it needs to be done,
just by sitting in the right kind of
emptiness, stillness and silence,
waiting for clarity
and watching for what
emerges within
for our consideration and implementation.

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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