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?
In Watkins Glen 02, 09/02/2015 — Watkins Glen State Park, Watkins Glen, New York
Our intuition, imagination, virtues (The things we do best and enjoy doing most), and original nature are the things that identify us as who we are, and are as unique to us as our fingerprints and the cones of our irises.
And it is our place to cooperate fully with these characteristics that make us, us, living in ways that honor them as sacred gifts from birth and living to serve them with liege loyalty and filial devotion all our life long.
Which would include spending time consciously in their presence in emptiness, stillness and silence, open to their guidance and direction, their wisdom and their grace. And following their lead throughout the time left for living.
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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