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?
A View of the River — Yellowstone River, Yellowstone Canyon, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Our real best life unfolds in the moment of living it, one situation at a time.
Knowing what is called for here, now is all we ever need to know.
And that knowledge arises spontaneously out of our lifelong relationship with emptiness/stillness/silence (One thing, not three), and trusting ourselves to read the signs of the times and know what's what and what is asked of us moment-to-moment, all along the way.
Faith in ourselves like this is the true test of faith. Believing in our relationship with our intrinsic intuition to the point of death on a cross is to enter into the laughter of those who discovered they didn't have anything to lose anywhere 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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