March 04, 2025

Zen Glen – Photographic Reproduction
We have to suffer the truth of how things are, and live to engage the world with lovingkindness, anyway, nevertheless, even-so.

We may sit in emptiness, stillness, silence,
waiting for the mud to settle and the water to clear,
but this is only bidding our time.
it is not quitting.

We gather ourselves in the silence,
and when the way appears,
we rise and do what is called for
as servants of the force of intuition
leading us to action in the field of action,
as has been done by all who have gone before us
when the game is afoot.

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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