October 23, 2024 – A

Down the Street, Around the Corner 10/22/2024 — Charlotte, North Carolina
The Tao, the Way,
flows from and leads to
our intrinsic intuition.

Those who know--
and live to serve--
their own intuition
live in sync with,
aligned with,
in full accord with,
their own intuition.

That is all there is to it.

All those who have known
through out the ages,
knew and served their intuition.

Jesus did it.
Buddha did it.
Name a knower
and they did it.

And they all were as
the moved before the mover.
The one who knows before
the one who is known.

We are all that close
to being who they were.

We only need to open ourselves
to the one who waits to be known,
and say, "Let's go!"
and mean it.

And in the emptiness/stillness/silence
(One thing, not three)
there will arise an awareness
of what is called for here,now.
And it may only be that we do the dishes.

Do not require a great mission,
dismissing all others.
Merely listen, look,
see, hear
and do what is bidden,
when, where and how it needs to be done.

Time after time throughout the rest of time.

And that will be enough.

Should you ever feel as though
you are at a dead end,
trust the dead end
to point the way,
to be the way to the way,
to be the way
that looks like the end of the way.

And trust your intuition all of the way.

The cross must have seemed to be
the deadest of all dead ends, no?

Published by jimwdollar

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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