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?
Fall Woods at Big Creek — Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Big Creek District, Waterville, North Carolina access
Embracing Kant's categorical imperative as knowing what is called for in each situation as it arises, and doing it without concern for profit or gain, with the gifts that are ours from birth: Our original nature, Our innate virtues (The things we do best and love/enjoy doing most) Our intrinsic intuition, puts us on the path of innocence and grace, without guile, deceit, or deception, just being who we are, doing what comes naturally to us in the service of what needs to be done in the situation unfolding before us here, now, when/where/how it needs to be done all our life long-- for the joy of doing it and the satisfaction of having done it.
It is called being the Buddha, being the Christ, just by being ourselves.
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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