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?
Country Road 03/07/2025 — Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Human beings seem to generate conditions conducive to their own anguish at a much higher rate than all other species combined.
I have watched cows, gold finches and snails quite a bit and have never seen any of them do themselves (or each other, for the matter) in.
History is a record of our making ourselves and one another miserable.
Leading me to conclude that God rushed production well beyond the amount of time that he (And given God's desire to rid the Old Testament world of all female deities, he has to be a very insecure HE) would have been wise to take much more of before uttering that fateful "Let There Be!"
My deep regret, and the burden that we all bear, is our failure to do better with what was handed to us at birth. Sending people to the moon fails to qualify as a significant off-setting achievement, and stands through time as being of no actual value to anyone ever.
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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