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?
Sunset at Morton’s Overlook — Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
What associations, connections, do you make with this image? What memories stir? What comes to mind? What emotions come to life? What thoughts spin off other thoughts until an entire chain of associations, connections are created just by looking at a photograph?
What comes to life in you just by making a space for it to do so?
Do it frequently.
Give your inner life a chance to share your attentive awareness, an opportunity to be present in your conscious life, and allow it to say--to bring to life, to light-- what it has to say at this point in your life, and how that informs your here, now from times long forgotten.
We bring ourselves to life this way, particularly if we do it frequently.
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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This is a helpful post. Anything with specific ideas helps me grab onto your intent.
Our life comes alive when we attend it, listen to it, become aware of the questions that beg to be asked in every moment, of the things that cry out to be said, especially to ourselves, about things we need to wake up to, sit with, here, now… Here, now is alive with things we would do well to be aware of, come to life to, with our attention, taking a walk-about sitting quietly with ourselves…
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This is a helpful post. Anything with specific ideas helps me grab onto your intent.
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Our life comes alive when we attend it, listen to it, become aware of the questions that beg to be asked in every moment, of the things that cry out to be said, especially to ourselves, about things we need to wake up to, sit with, here, now… Here, now is alive with things we would do well to be aware of, come to life to, with our attention, taking a walk-about sitting quietly with ourselves…
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