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?
Hemlock Islands 10/10/2010 — Penobscot Bay, Deer Isle, Maine
We have no need of plans and agendas-- a sense of what is necessary is enough to steer us through circumstances and situations as they arise.
It has been that way with us as a species since time began.
"If you meet an elephant coming toward you on the path, GET OFF THE PATH!!!"
This is not difficult. We make too much of it.
Siting in the emptiness, stillness and silence waiting for clarity and the spontaneous arising of intuition urging action in the field of action guides us into doing what needs to be done when, where, how it needs to be done, and it's back to waiting for clarity.
It is the way they do in on the islands, and the way indigenous peoples have done it through the ages.
Assembly lines, punching in and meeting quotas ruined a good thing.
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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