January 08, 2025

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Wetlands Geese — Summerfield, North Carolina
We have to know what is called for
and have what it takes to do it,
where, when and how it needs to be done.
In each situation as it arises.

To do so is to live aligned with the Tao,
at one with the moment at hand.

We cannot do that from a rational,
logical,
analytical,
point of view.

We don't think our way there.

Intuition is the magic stick/wand
that makes it possible
to be in the right place
at the right time,
time after time.

Learning to live intuitively
is getting out of the way
and letting happen what needs to happen
here, now all the way.

Mastering that is a simple matter
of not trying, or Wu-wei 
as the old masters might say.

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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