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?
When we wake up, we do what needs to be done in each situation as it arises with the gifts that we have to serve and share all our life long.
Jesus did no more than that. Nor did the Buddha. Being who we are "as those thus come," wherever and whenever we are, here, now.
This is not difficult. It only takes seeing/hearing/knowing what's what and what is called for moment to moment and responding to the occasion with the gifts we bring with us into every room we enter-- original nature, innate virtues (the things we do best and enjoy doing most), inherent imagination, intrinsic intuition-- doing what needs to be done with what we have to offer.
A child could do as much-- and does as much in each situation as it arises. So, Jesus could say, "All you have to do is become childlike." (Or words to that effect.)
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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