September 15, 2025

I would like to live exactly where I am living, and be doing exactly what I am doing. I wouldn't change a thing. It's called "Having it made."

And, what does one do when one has it made? What is called for in each situation as it arises, day after day. Which may have nothing to do with what one would want to do.

Wanting does not know a thing. Wanting is not a reliable guide to having it made. I did not get here by wanting to. I got here by doing what was called for one situation at a time.

I know people who are plotting to be somewhere else. Their life has a better idea of where they need to be than they do. My best advice to them is to forget where you want to be and focus on doing what is called for here, now. One here, now after another.

I don't remember when this occurred to me. I know that I did not think it up and put it into place. I simply realized what I was doing, and had been doing. Looking back, I think it started in Seminary. I was taking Greek and Hebrew as though that was going to somehow help me in the ministry. Reading Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell would have helped me in the ministry--and did, when I stumbled upon them as a part of doing what was called for here, now.

Which started in Seminary with me doing Greek and Hebrew because that was what was called for here, now, no matter what I wanted to do. And it has been guiding the way ever since.

I call it "being lucky," and I remember that Alan Watts said that is what people say about people who are simply doing what is called for situation by situation--which is "enlightenment" as "habitual intuition." Sensing/doing what is called for one situation at a time. The Tao. Doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, in the right place. Not by thinking our way forward, rationally, intellectually, reasonably, but simply by knowing/sensing what was called for, what needed to be done, no matter what, one situation at a time.

It is the way that is not a way at all. Or, as Martin Palmer would say, "The path that appears to be a path is not a reliable path."

The path that is The Path is known only in hindsight. Doing Greek and Hebrew when they needed to be done led to doing Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell when they needed to be done. And here we are. Clueless about what's next, but trusting myself to know it when it calls my name.  

Savvy?