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?
Baxter Creek Bridge, 2008 — Big Creek District/Picnic Area, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Life consists of meeting the moment the way the moment needs to be met, doing what is called for, where, when and how it is called for, in each situation as it arises throughout our life.
The things that interfere with this are the things we want/desire/fear/feel obligated to do.
The freedom to live our life the way our life needs to be lived is difficult to arrange even for single people with no family to take into consideration.
Issues arise. Complications and complexity interfere. Things come up. It isn't easy doing what is called for with so many other things to take into account.
Returning to the silence helps to put things in order, allowing us to "rise to the occasion" and do what needs to be done.
Just being quiet helps to sill the clatter of the 10,000 things and settle "the dust of the world," so that we might collect ourselves and find the way through all that is in the way, regain our balance and harmony and get back on the beam.
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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