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?
Gnosticism was well ahead of its time. The first and second centuries CE were not ready to hear, "We all are God! We only need to wake up to this truth and be who we are!"
And the people who saw things this way then were martyred, or murdered, for their service to the truth--as Jesus had foretold that they would be.
But. Truth cannot be killed. "Truth will out." Will out-live lies, deception, and falsehoods. And "That Which Has Always Been Called God" is "not across the sea or over the mountains that we might go seek for it, but it is right here, now, that we might know it and do it."
Knowing and doing, not talking, thinking, or believing, are shifting the truth to experiencing, embracing and following. And the Gnostics are getting their due after all these years.
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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