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?
Around Bass Lake 04 — Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
Everyone has a different idea of how things ought to be. People who think they know best and must be pleased are a blight upon the rest of humankind. All voices need to be heard but. The voices that seem to be listened to are the voices with money and/or who are insistent, loud, and ever-present, refusing to go away. They want to make the rules and force them to be observed. Slighting generally always the poor, the mentally/physically impaired, the marginalized of society, and those who generally are "on the outside looking in."
The people "on the margins" need people to stand with them there. To see them and help them to feel seen in a way that cares about them and makes them welcome.
Father Greg Boyle has some excellent videos about being with people on the margins. An internet search for his name will bring him into our life in a way that brings people on the margins into our life, making life around the circle of human kind a better life on a lot of levels in a lot of ways.
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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