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?
Magic is real. Mystery is everywhere. We only have to step away from our agenda to know that it is so--and to experience being swept up in the experience of being alive to the life that is waiting for us to live it, instead of striving to force ourselves into a life we have no business living.
That Which Has Always Been Called God is as real here, now as ever anywhere in the past eons and ages. This is not the God of Theology, Dogma and Doctrine I'm talking about, but the guardian of lived experience, winking and nodding, smiling and laughing at the very idea of what she is setting before us, hoping we won't stomp by unseeing, incapable of imagining what might yet be if we only trust ourselves to know what to say no to, and yes to--so that when the door opens we know which to choose.
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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The image is glorious. I wonder how you felt to be living as you photographed it?
I find myself laughing a lot at the wonder and beauty I stumble upon in the natural world, like a child in a candy shop, at this, and that, and that over there.
I am exalted by the beauty I experience through your photographs. Of course, that means I don’t feel the nip in the air of a Fall morning or the visceral pleasure you may have in your mastery of the medium of photography. But vicarious is good enough for me. Thank you for the many challenges you took on (that we did not have to experience 😉) to get each wonderful photo.
The images bring me a sense of wonder, joy and peace, as though being there for the first time. They present “the rightness of things as they are,” as a necessary counter-balance to our daily experience of life as it also is. A refuge. A reminder. An anchor…
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The image is glorious. I wonder how you felt to be living as you photographed it?
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I find myself laughing a lot at the wonder and beauty I stumble upon in the natural world, like a child in a candy shop, at this, and that, and that over there.
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I am exalted by the beauty I experience through your photographs. Of course, that means I don’t feel the nip in the air of a Fall morning or the visceral pleasure you may have in your mastery of the medium of photography. But vicarious is good enough for me. Thank you for the many challenges you took on (that we did not have to experience 😉) to get each wonderful photo.
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The images bring me a sense of wonder, joy and peace, as though being there for the first time. They present “the rightness of things as they are,” as a necessary counter-balance to our daily experience of life as it also is. A refuge. A reminder. An anchor…
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