June 18, 2024 – A

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Catawba River Power Plant Mirror 00 — Catawba River Access, Fort Mill, South Carolina
If you are waiting for your losses
to be made up to you,
you are standing in a long line
with other losses accumulating
while you are waiting for
the original ones to be redeemed.

Better just to let them go
and let it be.

Some parents are better than others,
and some kids get the good ones,
and others get the rotten ones.

It is called being lucky
and being unlucky.
There is nothing to be done
but make the best of it,
and don't let your deficits get you down.

We do what we can with what's left
of our life and let that be that.

We leave our sorrows at the wailing wall
and walk on, walk on,
with only our perspective, 
attitude and outlook
between us and the clashing rocks
and the heaving waves of the wine dark sea -- 
"And when the waves have shaken my raft to pieces,
then I will swim!" (Odysseus in The Odyssey)

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.

5 thoughts on “June 18, 2024 – A”

  1. I am who I am today in spite of what my parents were, I believe. Around age 40 I began to shrug their influence off and I finally began to find my own path outside of their boundaries. At first, it was strange and uncomfortable but gradually I found my own footing on the rocky path of my life.

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