August 17, 2024 – B

Pioneer School House — Andrew Jackson State Park, Lancaster County, South Carolina
Monitor the amount of emotion
in your tone of voice
as an indicator of the degree
of emotional reactivity in your life.

Aim at neutral living
from the center
of all bell-shaped curves.

We can't live from the center
without being grounded in neutral
with our emotional responses to life.

The image of a spiritual master
screaming at their life
suggests one who is neither spiritual
nor a master of anything.

Published by jimwdollar

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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