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?
Sunwapta River and Falls — Jasper National Forest, Canadian Rockies, Alberta
Realization comes from our reflection on our experience. We make up the bullshit to suit ourselves. For instance, what makes dirty words dirty? And what makes white people superior? Where does experience end and projection/assumption/presumption begin?
We know so much that isn't so, who can keep track anymore? Bullies have taken over the world. Normal people are an endangered species. I am hereby prescribing 26 hours a day of emptiness, stillness and silence for everyone.
The right kind of silence is the cure to all of our problems. In the right kind of silence, we can ask all of the questions that beg to be asked of all of the things that cry out to be said. And things heal themselves as if by magic. Which is the reverse of how things got to be the way they are. Which is by talking, talking, talking about things they don't know anything about.
We have to sit down, shut up, be quiet and wait for the idiocy to pass. Nobody speaks until it is gone. Talking about things we know nothing about is the source of all of our problems today. Conspiracy theorists lead the way away from the way. Silence is the path to sanity.
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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