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?
DUCD Dune Walker? (About 1/3 the way up the first dune, casting a faint shadow to the left. She passed me some timebefore I took the picture. Duh. The Mesquite Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California
We have to wait some things out. Trump and the MAGA madness, for instance. Just think how long they waited to undo "Liberty and Justice for All"!!! They have been hating Truth!, Justice!, Freedom!, Equality! from the very beginning. That is 249 years. Anger, Hatred, Fear, Greed have been mostly underground all that time. Now it is bursting out all over everywhere. I do not foresee a quick return to human rights and privileges. The worst is yet to come. In the meantime, what? We have to shift into survival mode and find our way to finding a way through the madness of a world without moral bearings.
I am a big fan of Emptiness, Stillness, Silence (One thing not three), because dropping into the silence restores us to the Psychic foundation of all of life. The Psyche is the source of life and the ground of our being restored to life and wellbeing. Living water in a parched and withered waste land.
Being quiet returns us to the Source and to the Force of intuition, hope, purpose and direction. We are one with Jesus in his work of reviving, restoring, reforming the Judaism of his day. We have to realize the nature of that work and consciously, deliberately take our place in the long line of those who have shouldered the burden and put their shoulders to the Sisyphean task of rolling the rock up hill and down hill day after day in doing what is called for and what must be done no matter what because that is who we are and that is what is asked of us, here, now, forever.
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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