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?
Heresy is the path to truth. Is truth. Truth is not static. Frozen. The same forever. "The Spirit is like the wind that blows where it will." "The old has passed away! Behold! The new has come!" If we aren't thinking things we have never thought before, we aren't thinking. We are remembering.
To be alive is to experience things for the first time. How long has it been? Silence is never the same. Dreaming the same dream means we haven't gotten it yet. And it is very important that we get it. So, whatever we think it is about is not what it is about. So we sit down with that dream and don't get up until it has shown us what we need to see.
The same goes for everything that is the same old same old. Nothing is the same for those with eyes that see. So we sit down with the things we always think until we see them for the first time.
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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