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?
Great Blue Heron 05/11/2019 — Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, Noxubee County, Mississippi
On one hand, I would like to be able to say that I am not going to kill anyone intentionally.
On another hand, I recognize that there are people who need killing, and, given the right circumstances, I could and would do the job.
That opens the door to the contradictory essence of good and evil-- that good has to be able to do what would be evil in some circumstances, and evil has to give itself to the service of good in some circumstances.
We live between contradictory realities all our life long. And need to be able to do what is called for, when, where and how it is called for, in each situation as it arises. No matter what.
Doing what is called for, when, where, and how it is called for is the highest good, making the right thing the wrong thing from time to time. And we are here to make it happen, exactly as it needs to happen.
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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