June 04, 2026 – B

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Woman on a Black Horse Waving at a Train — Steele Creek Crossing, Anne Springs Close Greenway
Fort Mill, South Carolina

The following is an excerpt from my eBook “The Way of Wild Things”–

Every experience with despair has the potential of opening us to the reality of our “other life” (The life we are built to live, and is waiting, even now, for us to begin living).

Depression is not only an indication that something is dying inside of us, but also, that something is struggling to be born within us, and through us into the world, here, now.

Ordinary “down times,” or chance meetings with “the blues,” can be quiet places where we might hear, if we listen, “the still small voice” of our true heart whispering to us, hoping we will recognize “the time of our visitation and know the things that make for peace.” And take up the work of discerning the path with heart–the path our heart know we are here to walk–and walking it with heart for the rest of our life.

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.

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