April 27, 2025

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
A Flight of Geese — Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, Mississippi 
We tend to think that getting/doing what we want
will bring us joy.

And we generally want what other people are getting/doing.

If we want joy in our life
we have to do what brings us joy,
whether other people are doing it or not.

How do we know what we want? What to want?
Is it what we want or what we think we ought to want?

Sex, Drugs, Alcohol, Money are diversions, distractions,
addictions, and we think we ought to want them
because they are in such high demand.

They create noise, complexity and complication.

How much joy do we associate with them?

We might take these questions into the silence
and sit with them there, and see what comes of it.

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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