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?
The Line at the Spillway Diner –Sam D Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Bluff Lake spillway
Our best hope of influencing the future is how we respond to the present.
What we do here has an impact there. The quality and degree of impact is determined by countless factors at work within the circumstances of the moment, but.
We increase our chances of a future better that it would otherwise be by the way we live in each situation as it arises.
The old Dharma/Tao concern for right action-- doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right place, and the right way-- being the surest method of achieving the highest good of all concerned remains the case through all eternity.
Taking care of the moment impacts infinity.
And if it doesn't, it doesn't harm anything to be found there.
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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