May 27, 2025

Goshen Creek 04, 10/04/2018 — Blue Ridge Parkway, Boone, North Carolina
I want you to join me in a pact
to no longer allow our personal gain,
benefit, profit, advantage to govern our choices
and direct our life.

We are no longer in it for what we can get out of it.

Instead, we are going to live in the service of
what is called for in each situation as it arises,
devoting ourselves to doing what needs to be done
in the service of what is called for no matter what
for the rest of the way.

And we are going to commit ourselves to knowing
what is called for by learning to live intuitively,
by teaching ourselves to drop into the emptiness,
stillness and silence and wait there for clarity
and realization to arise out of the silence and lead
the way to what needs to be done with the gifts
of our original nature, our inherent imagination,
our innate virtues (The things we do best
and enjoy doing most), and our intrinsic intuition,
in doing the right thing, at the right time,
in the right way and in the right place as only we can do it
throughout the time left for living.

Will you do that with me?
If you will,
we will create "a brand new world, Golda."

How about 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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