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?
Black and White — Along the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina
We are quite on our own and get by best by choosing the right kind of others to be our Community of Innocence-- Innocent in the sense of having nothing at stake in relationship with one another beyond serving as a sounding board for each other, enabling all in the group to ask the questions that beg to be asked and say the things that cry out to be said about life as they experience it and responses they make to it, so that each person might hear what they have to say by listening to themselves say it, and coming to know themselves better thereby, adjusting their lives accordingly by taking themselves fully into account.
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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