February 17, 2025

Boone Fork 2018, 03 –Julian Price Memorial Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
Change anything and we change everything--
and we are changing things big time.
With no regard for the implications of any of it.
At a rate where nothing has the leisure
of a comfortable adjustment to anything.

The impact upon the intuitive structure
of the entire cosmos is incalculable, but.
It will take a lifetime of emptiness, stillness and silence
over many generations
to approach the stability of the planet
the day before the rock hit the moon
that knocked a piece of the moon into the earth.

In the meantime,
our best recourse
is to take the time to sit peacefully,
dropping into emptiness, stillness, silence,
giving our intuition a chance to settle us into
a pattern of recovery, reflection and realization,
enabling us to be who we are,
doing what is called for
in each situation as it arises
as best we can
with the gifts that are ours
to serve and share
in the time left for living.

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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