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?
Emerald Lake — Canadian Rockies, Yoho National Park, Field, British Columbia
What to do here, now is always a poser, making emptiness, stillness and silence all the more important. Joseph Campbell liked to point out that reflection leads to realization, and that is the aim of meditation and the essence of enlightenment.
How much quiet, reflective time do we have in a day? Emptying ourselves of everything that interferes with silent stillness opens us to what waits to be seen, heard, known, embraced and invited into our life. From there, allowing nature to take its course opens us to our life and to possibilities we might never have considered from the standpoint of forcing our will and our way along the way.
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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