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?
Swamp Scene 01 — Lake Chico State Park, Ville Platt, Louisiana, Photoshop Generative Fill AI Enhance
What guides our boat on its path through the sea?
It can't be "I want."
What does wanting know?
There is nothing like wanting to screw things up worldwide forever.
If we are at the mercy of wanting, we would be better off if we just stop right now and don't do another thing until we can get wanting in its rightful place.
Wanting's rightful place is wanting not to want anything that has no rightful place in our life. The rightful place for anything/everything is what is called for here, now.
Wanting what needs to be done is quite legitimate. Wanting what it is time for is the right kind of wanting. Wanting what we have no business having? Not so much.
"If I just didn't want the wrong things, at the wrong time, in the wrong place, in the wrong way, I would be so much better off in so many ways." That realization contains all of the elements of a really fine country song.
And the only antidote I know of is the right kind of silence in the right place at the right time. If we are ever going to want anything, let it be that. No?
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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