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?
Little Blue Heron with Body Guard (A Wood Stork) — Woody Pond, Harris Neck Wildlife Preserve, Savanna Georgia
Jesus and the Buddha were about 500 years apart. Jesus and I are nearly 2,000 years apart. And I think we could go back about 6,000 to 8,000 years to the Shaman who got things rolling when the last ice age reseeded enough to make things livable. It is shameful that the species has made no more spiritual progress than it has over that length of time.
That's some bad preaching going on! But where did people have to go to learn to think for themselves?
The Buddha and Jesus took to the wilderness and pondered things for themselves. And Jesus argued with the scribes and Pharisees of his day-- and his "You have heard it said, but I say unto you" bespoke an authority that came from within that others admired. And the Buddha recommended "Peaceful abiding, here, now."
We would have been saver alone than being subjected to all that bad preaching.
What are you doing, have you been doing, to develop your thinking for yourselves?
Keep it up. It is the best practice I can recommend!
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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