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?
Adams Mill Pond — Goodale State Park, Camden, South Carolina, BW
Peace, serenity, tranquility, silence, calmness, equanimity... offsetting the noise and dust of the world. That is the role I have claimed for myself from the beginning. Which I take to be the case with all peacemakers everywhere throughout time. It is who we are. How we are. Why we are. "Peaceful abiding, here, now." Is the theme we exist to serve, express, exhibit all along the way. I expect the same is so with you in the way of like attracting like, and alcoholics being able to pick each other out in a crowded room. It is good work that we are doing, and it will always need to be done, so take heart and know we are not as alone as it sometimes seems. Draw strength from the emptiness and stillness between breaths. And know that we are all there with you throughout the day, every day. We meet in the silence between breaths, drawing strength from each other's presence for the work that is a blessing and a grace upon all those who share the world with us, 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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