June 03, 2026 – B

Blue Ridge Sunset, North Carolina

Sitting quietly, waiting to see what comes. Listening for what we need to say, need to hear. To know what’s what, what’s called for, what needs to be done. Here, now. Waiting for things to become clear in time. Trusting ourselves to know what is good for us and to realze what it is time for, when it is time for it. In the meantime, we settle into waiting, and wait it out, communing with the silence, enjoying the peace of natural things. Allowing clarity to come in its own time, inviting us to do what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs to be done. And, until then, enjoying the pleasure of being here, now.

We are bound to the way we know to be our way, which is The Way for us. We only have to wait, trusting ourselves to know it when we see it, understanding that impatience has waylaid many a life in a hurry to get with the program, and that the overly cautious wanting to be sure, afraid to trust themselves to know what they know has missed the time for acting, allowing the train to leave the station without being on board. So that impatience and over-caution become the Scylla and Charybdis on the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea. Trusting ourselves to know what we know is a test of our confidence in our intuition which has to be established over time.

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.

2 thoughts on “June 03, 2026 – B

  1. “Enjoying the peace of natural things.” This is a Substack that I read for that enjoyment:

    ”And all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”~Julian of Norwich
    These posts are about finding the beauty in daily life, even amid the craziness, uncertainty, and anxiety. Reality is not going away, but these are the only days we get, so we have to relish their small beauties while we have them.”

    https://open.substack.com/pub/jfriordan/p/ah-june-the-season-of-bugs-and-blooms?r=ew3g&utm_medium=ios

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