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?
Cypress Swamp 02 — Photoshop Generative Fill AI Enhanced — Lake Chicot State Park, Ville Platt, Louisiana
We are not individuals born to have what we want and do as we please. We are Psychic wonders living to express and enjoy the amazing experience of being one with all living things in a universe where life is a miracle able to reflect on and realize the awe of being self-reflective forms of energy--and we waste our time and our life striving to have our way at at the expense of everyone else.
We have only contempt for our opportunity, and toss the contemplation of who we are and what we have been given aside, in the pursuit of wealth and power in order to gloat over who we are on our way to death.
We are born to be stupid and ruthless then die. May we at least have the wherewithal to die ashamed and appalled, having lived only to deserve a Wailing Wall for our failure to be worthy of life through our few generations of being alive. Who will join me in saying "Amen"?
Addendum Here follows an interesting addition to the above:
If one were to do an internet search for "The most Godlike place in the world," They would get a reply on the order of, "That is too subjective to answer," then they would get a list: Vatican City, Jerusalem, Mecca...
And if one were to ask for the most Godlike people in the world" they would get a list of powerful people throughout history.
I am shocked awake by Google's idea of Godlike. It would never occur to me as being powerful, like Superman. I am thinking, "kind, gentle, meek and mild, compassionate, generous, considerate." All of which fits right in with the way today's post began. We are godless because we don't know who God is/would be. That's one for the books! Geez.
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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Amen, bro
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