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?
Carolina Lakes 12 10/06/2013 — Crowders Mountain State Park, North Carolina
The scenes that we seek can be anywhere, but they are not everywhere. So, we have to keep looking.
The things we need to hear can be found anywhere, but they are not found everywhere, so we have to keep listing-- and just as importantly, we have to keep talking, because we can say what we need to hear as easily as anyone else can say what we need to hear (We never know where what we need to hear will come from--so we have to listen all of the time).
I stay antsy, thinking, "It isn't here. Where is it? I know it's around here somewhere! Frustrated because I can't find what I'm looking for because I don't know what I'm looking for. And I have to wait, not knowing what I'm waiting for.
I call it "The creative dilemma." We have to wait it out. I call that "The creative task."
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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