May 03, 2025

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Jim at Baxter Creek — Screen Shot from Zoom with my original photograph of Baxter Creek and my original self
We have to not care what our chances are,
or what the odds are,
or what our outcomes are.
These things cannot matter to us at all.

Our filial loyalty and our life-long devotion
have to be to who we are,
not to what we achieve,
or what difference we make.

We all live and die,
and who knows who we were or what we did
or did not do two generations hence,
much less 100 generations hence.

We live for here, now,
with the gifts we have to offer:
Our original nature,
our innate virtues (The things we do best
and enjoy doing most),
our inherent imagination,
our intrinsic intuition
and our unique psyche,
in the service of what is called for
in each situation as it arises,
whether any one is watching or not,
for no reasons other than the joy of doing it
and the satisfaction of having done it.

One situation after another
all our life long.

Got it? Do it! That's all there is to 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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