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?
Sunset at Clingman’s Dome — Clingman’s Dome Parking Lot, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina/Tennessee
If we want to know God, we can't do it by hearing about God, or reading about God. If we want to know God, we have to live in godly ways.
We have to live aligned with the divine within by honoring our original nature, our innate virtues (The things we do best and love/enjoy doing the most), and our intrinsic intuition (That which knows what needs to be done, when/where/how in each situation as it arises, without an eye out for what's in it for us, without knowing what we stand to gain or lose, without caring about what's in it for us, without serving our plans or agendas, without having anything at stake in any outcome, all our life long.
To know God, we have to BE God, through all of the circumstances that come along.
Whales do it. Rocks do it. Giant Sequoias do it. Pigs and eagles do it.
The natural world has it down, and is waiting for us to get with the program.
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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YES, the Reality in us is God/ Godly regardless of any name we choose to call it. The rest is nuisance, blocking its light to shine through freely, which is also a part of the existence. I suspect more and more, that our whole journey through life is to learn and become more and more like a sieve, so we can let ‘God’ within shine through, until we are transparent…what else could be purpose of our existence in this universe?
Joseph Campbell uses a phrase, “Transparent to transcendence,” and applies it to the entire universe, saying that it is only a matter of looking until we see transcendence everywhere–even within ourselves.
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YES, the Reality in us is God/ Godly regardless of any name we choose to call it. The rest is nuisance, blocking its light to shine through freely, which is also a part of the existence. I suspect more and more, that our whole journey through life is to learn and become more and more like a sieve, so we can let ‘God’ within shine through, until we are transparent…what else could be purpose of our existence in this universe?
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Joseph Campbell uses a phrase, “Transparent to transcendence,” and applies it to the entire universe, saying that it is only a matter of looking until we see transcendence everywhere–even within ourselves.
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