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?
Rhododendron at Mabry Mill — Meadows of Dan, Virginia, Blue Ridge Parkway
We have to know when and where to draw the line. When to take "NO!" for an answer, and when to give "NO! for an answer. Being savvy is listening to our intuition all the way.
When we think we know what we are doing, it is time to sit for a while in the right kind of emptiness/stillness/silence (One thing, not three!) until the mud settles and the water clears, maybe after we sleep on it and see what our dream-maker has to say in the matter.
It is an all too easy matter for intention and incentive to take over the controls from intuition. When that happens, things take a turn for the worse "like that."
And so the rule: Always act out of the silence, never in the heat of the moment!
How many wars could have been avoided just by listening to that one!
We have to give intuition a chance all along the way!
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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Your one rule, beats all other rules in the whole history of rules!
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Your one rule, beats all other rules in the whole history of rules!
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