October 29, 2024 – A

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Bass Lake Fog 03 10/12/2014 – Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
Wanting is the source
of all of our problems today.

Wanting and striving.
Striving to achieve what we want,
and to avoid what we don't want.

Get rid of wanting and striving
and it is a brand new world
just like that.

So, that is our task:
Ridding ourselves of wanting
and striving.

Our work is simple:
Live to want less today 
than we wanted yesterday.
To strive, endeavor, aspire...
less today than we did yesterday.

Want to not-want!
Strive to not-strive!

Those are the best things
we can do for ourselves and the planet
in all of the things that can be done
for ourselves and the planet!

Starting now!

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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