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?
Katahdin Range — Sandy Stream Pond, Baxter State Park, Millinocket Maine
This scene is crammed with insects, snakes, leeches, mammals and ultraviolet rays that could make our life a living hell in no time at all. The stuff we overlook, dismiss, discount, ignore in making our judgments and forming our opinions about what we see is never taken into account when we decide how we feel about a place. We don't see more than we do see regarding everything we look at. And we know that but we refuse to think about it. We do not acknowledge it, and blithely stride through each day. We live unaware of the time and place of our living every moment all the time. It is a wonder that we get along as well as we do.
We ignore what we don't want to know. Here's what we do about that: Spend 20 minutes a day in emptiness, stillness, silence and see what comes calling. Do not shut yourself off from any of it. Simply see it and welcome it into your life. Let your life take it from there. Trust your intuition to override your fear/desire in making the adjustments that take your Also Life into account. And see where it goes.
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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