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?
Beacon Heights 02 — Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
What to do now/next is a problem when we aren't gripped by a compelling urgency to go and do. Between projects and compulsions, we are easy victims of ennui and boredom, looking for something to do.
Emptiness, stillness and silence (One thing not three) is always available as a refuge from boredom, although it doesn't sound much different from being bored with nothing to do.
Emptiness, etc. is a different kind of nothing. It is a nothing that is alive with potential and possibility, bubbling with live and energy, enthusiasm and excitement as we wait to see what will emerge out of the twilight with a call to action.
Time spent with the silence, etc. is time spent with the way to The Way by way of what is called for with the gifts we have to offer to the here and now of this moment thus come. It doesn't get better than this!
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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