March, 2025

Swan Lake Iris Gardens 10/25/2019 — Sumpter, South Carolina
It is all practice.  
Every day is another dress rehearsal.
We are working to improve our improvisation.
To see what's what
and to know what is called for
in order to respond with our original nature,
our innate virtues--the things we do best
and enjoy doing most,
and our inherent imagination
and intrinsic intuition.

In dancing with our circumstances
and living in synch with the force
at work in each here, now
to do what needs to be done
as a blessing and a grace upon all that is,
now and forever. Amen.

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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