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?
It is up to us to be who we are. No one can do it for us. We realize who we are and live in ways that express/exhibit that in each situation as it arises.
Start with selecting two symbols that express who you are over the course of your life. Live the remainder of your life in the service of those two symbols-- consciously, deliberately, intentionally.
One of my symbols is a combination question mark and exclamation Mark: ?! and the other is a huge Macy's Parade balloon man.
Signifying my determination to ask the questions that beg to be asked and to say the things that cry out to be said.
The balloon man is my determination to be bigger than that in response to whatever is happening here, now.
I am going to live consciously in the service of these symbols throughout the time left for living.
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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