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 — 10/02/2018, Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
Our present life situation is exactly what we need to bring us forth to meet the world as the world needs us to meet it.
This is the magic at work in our lives.
Our need to be who we are meshes perfectly with the world's deepest need in each here, now that comes along.
We are precisely the answer the cosmos is looking for in the present moment of our life.
And this is true in every moment of our life.
It only takes emptying ourselves of all thoughts/emotions/memories/etc. and sitting quietly in the silence to know that it is so.
We are what the moment needs.
The moment waits for us to realize that and stand up and meet the moment. Doing the thing that is called for, where, it is called for, when it is called for, how it is called for, moment after moment.
That's all the Buddha did. That's all Jesus did. That's all everyone who did it right did.
Why hold back? We have everything it takes. Let's go!
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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