June 22, 2025

Evening Ferry 2008 — Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Ocracoke Island, Pamlico Sound, North Carolina
I have looked things over and concluded that I am as well off where I am as I would be anywhere I can think of. So I'm going to tuck myself into my life and wait it out right here. My regret is that we, collectively, universally, thinking, did not have what it would have taken to come to a better outcome.

Jesus and John the Baptist tried to talk Israel of their day into changing the way things were done, and were executed/ martyred for their trouble. And things wouldn't be different if they were doing the same thing today. Nothing is going to change until the people change. The people want things to be different with nothing changing. That has been the case through the ages. The law of momentum states that the tendency is for things in motion to remain in motion and for things at rest to remain at rest. Change is a difficult thing to bring about.

My recommendation for changing things is to make a habit of emptiness, stillness, silence, waiting for clarity and realization by asking all of the questions that beg to be asked and saying all of the things that cry out to be said, and listening, looking, to hear and see what emerges, appears, occurs in the silence to catch our attention and lead us along the way in the service of doing what is called for, when, where and how it is called for, in each situation as it arises, all our life long.

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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