December 13, 2024

Three Geese Swimming — Cypress Pond, Down East, North Carolina
When we let wanting go,
everything changes,
and falls into place around that.

It is amazing how wanting
hijacks and controls our lives.

Stop wanting and it instantly
becomes a new world.

You don't know what to do
for one thing.
How will you live
without wanting barking orders?

What will guide your actions
through each day?

Letting wanting go
is the doorway to freedom.
When we stop wanting
we are free to do anything.

Before we thought we were free
when we could do anything we want.
Now that we no longer want,
we are free to do ANYTHING!

That's a twist we didn't see coming.

How will we know what to do?
We let what is called for
in each situation as it arises
call us into action.

That will be different.
Now it isn't what we want
that leads the way,
but doing what needs to be done.

Try it for a day
and you will never go back
to being owned and directed
by your wants.

Being enslaved to our wants
is a terrible way to go about life.
We are capable of so much more than that.

Announce your own Emancipation Proclamation
and never allow wanting to command our allegiance
for this time forth and forever more!

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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