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?
Deer on the Path — Flat Branch Greenway, Charlotte, North Carolina, 06/21/2024
Life itself is the burden, the agony, the trauma, the torment, the affliction, the pain...
Why should we have to live with Donald Trump and the Trump-Ettes, and the Trump MAGA Billionaires, and their mirror images around the world, Putin in Russia, Xi Jinping in China, Kim Jong Un in North Korea, Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel and all the others everywhere???
It is an unending line of viscous hatred, rancor, bitterness and greed that has no rightful place in a world desperate for liberty, justice, equality, kindness, peace, truth, good will and well-being!!!
So what's with all the crap? Seriously. What is it doing here? Why does 50% of humanity think it's just fine? We have been here for 2 million years, and can't do any better than this? WHAT?
Jesus had no impact. The Buddha had no impact. The list is long of good people who wasted their time.
Who are we kidding when we tell ourselves it is going to get better with time?
I'm taking life to the Wailing Wall, and living what's left of it under seething objection.
I am going to shave my head in renunciation and protest as soon as my wife grants her permission.
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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I hope your wife doesn’t…because your shaven head is not going to make any difference either. Why reject your poor hair for nothing? The world is what it is. We cannot make peace with it, but no point in banging our own head (with or without hair) against the wall, how does that help anyone?
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I hope your wife doesn’t…because your shaven head is not going to make any difference either. Why reject your poor hair for nothing? The world is what it is. We cannot make peace with it, but no point in banging our own head (with or without hair) against the wall, how does that help anyone?
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