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?
The psychological mechanism of projection is the most powerful producer of insanity/dysfunction to ever come along. To think something is what it is not and to be sure that it is what it is not is as crazy-making as can be. And then we bring gaslighting into the picture and it all goes to hell like that (snaps fingers). Where to we go to see things as they are? And to KNOW that how we see things is how things ARE?
What are our sources of verification? Of authentication? Of reality? How do we KNOW that reality is real? How sure/certain can we be about anything?
The assumption that things are whatever we take them to be is the ground of life. If we cannot take them to be what they appear to be, WHAT???
And so the importance of a community, a family, of troth and reliability. Of people being who they say they are. They confirm for us a space that is what we take it to be--and that is something we all need to find our way along the way. It should be guaranteed and not just a matter of luck.
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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