Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Dragonfly 03 06/19/2024 — Flat Branch Greenway, Charlotte, North Carolina
The amount of noise in our life is the degree of distraction in our life, is the measure of the amount of life in our life.
The noisier we live the less alive we are.
Our life is one distraction/diversion after another.
And we hate silence because we don't know what to do with it. And we have to have something to do to take our mind off how empty our life is without noise taking our mind off our emptiness.
Emptiness, stillness, silence are the essence of life. They are the ground of reflection, which is the source of new realizations-- which are the heart of life.
We live to be alive. To be energized with enthusiasm ardor, fervor, passion, zeal, gusto...
How long has it been? What is in charge of your life? What are you living for? Where do your interests lie? What shape does your service to your interests take?
Where do you go to consider these things?
It all starts with, flows from, leads to, emptiness, stillness, silence as the heart of life and being.
We cannot be really alive without being really quiet on a regular and recurring basis.
We know that intuitively and reject it passionately, desperately.
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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