August 28, 2024 – A

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Blue Ridge Price Lake Mirror — Julian Price Memorial Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
I do not know many people
who are content with 
doing what is called for
in each situation as it arises.

Everybody has an agenda.
A plan.
An idea of how things ought to be.
They live in the service
of what's in it for them--
of what they stand to gain or lose
in each situation as it arises.

They have opinions
and a will in the service
of most of them,
either for or against.

Pushing/forcing/striving/endeavoring...

Willing even what cannot be willed.

And reacting emotionally to everything.

Living in the simple service
of what is called for
does not rank anywhere in their list
of things that are important.

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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