January 01, 2026

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Christmas Shadows 10 — Christmas Day 2025

Happy New Year! The blessing raises the question, “What is in charge of our happiness? Upon what does our happiness depend? Generally, upon things going our way. Raising the question: How flexible is “Our way”? How pliable? Supple? Malleable? Amenable? Accommodating? Adaptable? How easily do we “Make do” with how things are? With what we have to work with? With what it takes to be happy? What does it take to see happiness as an outlook? A perspective? A way of looking at things? A way of seeing what we look at? A way of being in the world just as it is? What would it take to “take things in stride” and to be happy with things just as they are? Saying, “YES! To life as it is every day–no matter what?

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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.

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