March 06, 2015

Summer Mirror — Andrew Jackson State Park, Lancaster County, South Carolina
When we live intuitively
out of our own authority
we live out of the center of who we are,
grounded in our sense of what's what
and what is called for
in each situation as it arises.

Neither the Buddha nor Jesus could do more.

Reading the times
and responding to them
with the best we have to offer
out of our original nature,
our innate virtues
(What we do best and enjoy doing most).
our inherent imagination
and our intrinsic intuition,
is all the can be asked of anyone.

In addition to this,
it is the way of wild things,
doing what needs to be done.

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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