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?
Grandfather Mountain in Price Lake Mirror — Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
We all are Psychic marvels, as is every other physical thing in the Cosmos. Psyche is the source of everything. And, if we are wondering what the point of it all is, the whole point is just for the joy of it. There is nothing to gain beyond being joyful over the experience of being alive. It is all about JOY!
Psyche is very childlike in many ways. But you knew that. We all know everything important. We all know the truth about everything--and truth has very little to do with facts, and that is a fact. About the only fact that Psyche has anything to do with. Psyche also has very little to do with negative emotions.
Joy, mercy, peace, wonder, laughter, love, resiliency, resonance, creativity, imagination... Psyche is big time into all of those, along with silence, stillness and emptiness. Psyche comes to us in emptiness, stillness and silence. And loves to visit us with sudden realizations that are the exact thing the moment calls for. I think that is what Psyche does best and enjoys doing most.
A lot of people confuse Psyche with God. God is a completely human invention. We made God up to explain our experience. And along with God comes theology, also made up to explain the contradictions in our experience. When none of it needs to be explained. It is like a joke in that way. Experience waits for us to get it with joy and laughter, and trust ourselves to it as being exactly what we need to grow up and square ourselves up with the contradictions and discrepancies, paradox and irony that are everywhere, strewn in with the joy, wonder and laughter, and the understanding that "Life is just that way!"
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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