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?
All Aboard! — Jasper, Alberta, Jasper National Park, Canadian Rockies
What do you think about as you are driving trains through Canada?
What do you think about when you are not?
What do you think about?
What we think about tells the tale.
One thought tends to lead to another, particularly when we are thinking about our thinking. Being curious as to why we think the way we think and not some other way instead-- and thinking about some of the other ways available to us, and wondering why we have never thought that way.
Or thinking how the way we think is so much like the way people think around us.
Who in your family of origin thought the way you think? Who in your family of origin did NOT think the way anyone else thought?
Who has been the freest thinker you know? What books did they read? What did they do to pay the bills? What did they pay the bills to do? How was their life different from the way life was being lived around them?
How is the way you live different from the way life is being lived around you?
How is the way you think different from the way people around you think?
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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