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?
Tortoise 02 2014 — St. Augustine Alligator Park and Rookery, St. Augustine, Florida
The Buddha and Jesus were as neurotic as the rest of us, and given to panic attacks, frustration and uncertainty.
They, too, wrestled with Desire, Fear, Duty.
And they found the way through the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence, just as we do.
And they couldn't tell us anything we can't know for ourselves just by reflecting quietly on our daily experiences with life and our responses to those experiences.
We all are self taught.
The only thing teachers are good for is telling us to listen to ourselves.
This old tortoise figures everything out for her/him-self. So do we all.
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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