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?
From the Foothills to the Piedmont–An overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina
We build a life around ourselves simply by doing what needs to be done in each situation as it arises, when, where and how it needs to be done.
The key in being able to hold the line against diversions, distractions and denial is maintaining our focus on the twin keys of wanting and caring.
We can want what we have no business having. We can care about the wrong things in the wrong ways. There is wrong wanting and right wanting. Right caring and wrong caring. Once we are capable of discerning right from wrong in the spheres of wanting and caring, there is only maintaining our focus on right and wrong the rest of the way.
Emptiness, stillness and silence (One thing, not three) is always at hand and is a "very present help in time of trouble." Taking refuge in emptiness, stillness and silence, and waiting there for reflection to lead to realization and insight is one of the best ways to spend time there is.
With the right kind of emptiness, etc. at hand, it is Psyche, Tao and us all the way to the end of the way, which is the endless adventure of being alive.
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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