July 11, 2025

Farm Road 01 04/09/2014 — Anne Springs Close Greenway, Fort Mill, South Carolina
We maintain/sustain our balance and harmony by remaining grounded/centered/focused in a way of life and being that nothing can knock us off of. It is the way of "Peaceful abiding here, now," in each moment that comes along, looking for what is called for in each situation as it arises, and doing what needs to be done there, when, where, and how it needs to be done with the gifts of our original nature, our innate virtues (the things we do best and enjoy doing most, our inherent imagination, our intrinsic intuition, and our psychic affinity with that which has always been called God.

We are all one with God in this way. There is no God other than the God at the center of our psyche. This the God Jesus was speaking of when he said, "When you have seen me, you have seen the Father." We are all one with God at the center of our psyche. We don't have to believe this for it to be so. We know it to be so by dropping into emptiness, stillness and silence and waiting for confirmation.

And rising to do what is called for, when, where and how it is called for--using the gifts available to each of us from the psyche we share in common with all people.

This the truth of how things are apart from all theology, doctrine, beliefs, creeds, religion, faith throughout the cosmos and across time and space. This is who we are. It only takes listening in the silence to know it is so. And then what? We do what is called for in each situation as it arises all our life long.

PS. If you don't think God is snug in our psyche from the beginning, ask yourself what came first the Bible or the Church?

The Church came first! The Church made up the Bible! And the God everybody talks about is the God of the Bible which the Church put there. But the God beyond theology, creeds, doctrine, etc. was already in our psyche from the start.

Sit with it long enough and you will know it is so.

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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