November 27, 2025

The Woman on a Black Horse 09 — Botany Bay National Historic Area and Wildlife Refuge, Edisto Island, South Carolina

What do you know that no one told you, and you do not know how you know?

How much do you know that no one told you and you don’t know how you know?

Sit with that secret knowledge. Take it into the emptiness, stillness, silence with you, and wait there “for the mud to settle and the water to clear.” Waiting in the silence for clarity is waiting for something to stir to life beyond the stillness with a riddle, or a symbol, or a stereotype, or a memory, or… Gifting you with it as something to work with to take you where you need to be. This is like a daytime dream, offering insight into your life at this moment, this here, now, offering you the mission of discovery, of enlightenment, of awakening, of realization. Starting with the intuitive sense of something starring to life beyond the stillness, there in the silence along with the knowledge that you don’t know how you know.

Published by jimwdollar

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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