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?
The Blowing Rock 06/15/2018 — Blue Ridge Mountains, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
All those "family dynamics" that we will never get to the bottom of, but, only if the truth were known, colors every facet of all our lives.
Don't we wonder though? What hidden events shape the life we each have lived, and world events unnumbered?
Was the "Virgin" Mary raped by her father, for instance? Or the man next door, or down the street?
The answer to those questions would change a lot of things. And the answers to more questions like them would change a lot more things.
But, we don't speak about the unspeakable, and life goes on, such as it is-- only the truth away from being quite different. But different better, or different worse, who's to say?
Somebody's better is somebody's worse, and points of view color everyone's life story. But all those stories would make quite a story, don't you think?
Giving rise to countless, "Oh, NOW I see's." Around the world throughout time.
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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P.S. We can gauge the degree of our indoctrination by the number of questions we refuse to allow ourselves to ask, or permit others to ask. And “the family” and “the church” are first class indoctrination machines. No?
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P.S. We can gauge the degree of our indoctrination by the number of questions we refuse to allow ourselves to ask, or permit others to ask. And “the family” and “the church” are first class indoctrination machines. No?
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