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?
Big Creek 04-02 — Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Big Creek District, Waterville Exit Access, North Carolina
Our place in each day is not to impose our will, wants, wishes upon the day, but to align ourselves with the drift and flow of the day, doing what we can to aid and abet the day with its needs and interests. The question is not, “How can we be happy today?” but, “How can we be helpful today?” Not, “What can we get?” but, “What is called for here, now throughout each day.” We are here to do what is called for with our skill set, our talents, our knacks and abilities–for the joy of doing it and the satisfaction of having done it. In each situation as it arises, all our life long.
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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