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?
Silver Lake Sunset 10/02/2010 — Ocracoke Island, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Outer Banks, North Carolina
How is your balance and harmony (one thing, not two) these days?
What are the sources of instability?
What part does wanting play?
Pain's greatest contributor is wanting things to be different NOW!
Where do we go to restore equilibrium?
We have to have a place of retreat where we can regain our composure and recover our grounding center-focus-orientation.
Could be a long shower. Or a walk on the beach by the sea. Or a place to sit and listen to the sound of ocean waves, or your favorite music for finding peace...
Then dropping into emptiness/stillness/silence (one thing, not three) and waiting for the eventual arising of revival, restoration, reorientation, renewal...
And back into the fray again...
Staying there hinges on finding and maintaining the right ratio between caring and not-caring about how things are and are-not.
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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