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?
Lake Jocassee Waterfalls 07 10/23/2014 — Devil’s Fork State Park, Salem, South Carolina
What guides your choices? Directs your actions? Why do you do what you do and not do what you don't do?
What is in charge of you? Boss of you? Telling you what is to be "Yes," and what is to be "No"?
Who--okay, whom-- do you live to please? If you say you do, who--okay, whom-- would be most pleased with how you live?
Everyone talks about "freedom of the will," but no one is free to choose what they want. When they say, "I am free to do whatever I want," they are not free to want what they don't want.
Where does what they want come from? Why that and not something else instead? What binds us to our wants? Repels us from our "don't wants"?
When you get to the bottom of you, who/what is flipping your switches, pushing your buttons, in charge of the way you live your life? Compelling you to like, or not like, dogs, and love, or hate, the ocean or the mountains? Telling you you are free to do whatever you want?
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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