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?
I know where to put the tripod. I have always known where to put the tripod. And that knowing is not something I can claim as having generated. It is something that I have received, recognized, acknowledged. I do not create it--I simply know it.
If you are quiet, silent, still, empty of all thoughts, emotions, memories, desires/wants, etc. you will know what you know without knowing how you know it. Dig in there. Pay attention there. Hand yourself over there. Look closer there. And see where it goes.
We have what remains of our life to foster who we are by attending what we do best and enjoy doing most. I call that our "innate Virtues." If we focus on doing that which we do best/enjoy most, in light of our original nature and our inherent intuition and our intrinsic imagination, we will be bringing ourselves to life in the time left for living.
And that is all that can be asked of any of us.
When we make us our project and our practice, by listening to ourselves and doing what we know to be called for, when, where and how it is called for in each situation as it arises, we will be doing all that can be asked of any of us.
Our life will be our hobby then, and we will be as alive as we can ever hope to be.
And this will not be about what we have or how successful we are, but who we become simply by being who we are, doing what we do best and enjoy doing most. And what's not to love about that?
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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I think we owe it to ourselves to watch at least a handful of videos featuring Father Greg Boyle. Greg has forty plus years of experiencing working with gang members in Los Angeles, and is as cool as it gets even as a polar bear in the Arctic. He “turns the light around” as well as it has ever been done anywhere. Time spent with Greg Boyle is time well spent.
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I think we owe it to ourselves to watch at least a handful of videos featuring Father Greg Boyle. Greg has forty plus years of experiencing working with gang members in Los Angeles, and is as cool as it gets even as a polar bear in the Arctic. He “turns the light around” as well as it has ever been done anywhere. Time spent with Greg Boyle is time well spent.
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