January 26, 2025 – B

I retired after forty years and six months in the ministry
(And that was nearly fifteen years ago.)
My thing was and is hermeneutics.
I'm still going at it.
You can't retire from your thing.
You can't quit.
No vacations.
No escape.
It's wonderful.
We are here to do our thing.
Do you know what I'm saying?
I'm saying, "Find your thing
and serve it with your life!"

The thing you can't help doing.
The thing you can't stop doing.
The thing you are about.
You know, that thing.

My thing is hermeneutics.
Hermeneutics is about knowing 
and saying what's what,
and getting people together 
with the truth of their life.
Even though nobody cares,
onderstands,
Or knows what you are talking about.

I'm talking about crucial matters,
and they are looking for Billy Graham
and Joel Osteen.

It doesn't slow me down.

Who we are and what we are (to be) about
are the only things that matter.
Being who we are doing what we are (to be) about,
are the only things that matter.
That is who I am and what I am (to be) about.

Hermeneutics.

Saying what's what and what we are (to be) about.

Generally, what we are about
is diversion, distraction, denial, escape, addiction.
That has to change.
The way we change it is to quit wanting.
Wanting has us where we are.
Quitting wanting cold turkey
is the solution to all of our problems today,
everyday.

Live without wanting by flipping the switch,
turning the light around--
and start living in service to what is called for
in each situation as it arises, no matter what--
which means: Never Mind What You Want!

I've been saying this for a thousand years,
it's time people started listening.