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?
Tethered. The boat is useless and in the way unless it is tethered to something throughout its life. The same thing applies to each of us. To what are we tethered? What anchors us? declares what we are about? To what do we belong? What is our business? Ours to do?
Our identity is wrapped up in what is ours to do. Who are we? What is ours to do? We live to know. To find out. To discover. That is the whole point of our life. I am here to look out the window and see where it goes. To do what is asked of me here, now in light of who I have been and what I have done up to this point. The way only I can do it.
Jesus was who he was, doing what was his to do. I am who I am, doing what is mine to do. You are who you are, doing what is. yours to do.
Our life shows us who we are. Reveals to us what is ours to do. We know that by looking back over our life and seeing who we have been, what we did, have done, with the life we have lived.
We show ourselves who we are by looking into the mirror of our past life. What signals, shouts out, who we are what is ours to do? There we are. Our future is in our past. Our place here, now is to embrace who we have been what we have done, and do that with intention, determination, awareness and zeal in the time left for living.
To be who Jesus was is to be who we have been. That is all Jesus ever did, be who he was. Doing what was his to do. In the way that only he could do it.
My photographs show me who I am. I am the boat. Alone. Yet tethered to what is mine to do. In each situation as it arises. As only I can do it. As long as life shall last.
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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