December 06, 2025

jimwdollarDecember 6, 2025December 6, 202506/25/2020

**Purple Orchids — The Orchid Collection**

No one can tell us where the stillness speaks to the silence, or how to find that place and what we can expect to hear there. That is why there is theology and doctrines and dogma and dharma and sutras and all those preachers and teachers who make things worse by talking us to death about things that cannot be said. Only emptiness works. Be empty and wait. In the silence. For the stillness to reveal its secrets about the way of the drift and flow of The Way of Life and Being, and how to drift and flow with it forever.

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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. View more posts