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?
Price Lake Mirror 2008 — Julian Price Memorial Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
The way we respond to events and cirumstances determines-- or strongly influences-- everything that follows.
We create the future by the way we respond to the present.
And living willfully, defiantly, demanding and insistent is not the way to produce the kind of results we have in mind.
The way to experience smooth and easy is to be smooth and easy, open and receptive, with nothing to gain and nothing to lose in each situation as it arises.
Living with nothing at stake in the outcome allows us to do what is called for here and now free from the influence of what we want "no matter what."
Doing what is called for by the situation at hand is the foundation of a future we all can live with.
All it takes is relentless courage to discover that this is so.
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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