March 27, 2025

Smoky Mountain Sunrise
Being who we are is our life's work.
It requires listening in the silence
to be clear about what's called for
and rising to do it when, where and how it is called for
in each situation as it arises
as only we can do it with our original nature,
innate virtues (The things we do best
and enjoy doing most),
our inherent imagination
and our intrinsic intuition
throughout our life.

Attending/serving our intuition
with our other gifts of being
is the secret to being ourselves
as those thus come,
with integrity and authenticity--
the ethos of spirituality and character
coming forth in our life
when we live as only we can.

Why not?

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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