August 01, 2026

Gooseneck — Dead Horse Canyon State Park, Moab, Utah

I have never known what I am doing–and it has worked out just fine. I have always trusted my luck and never pushed it. And that doesn’t mean I know what I’m doing. It means I do not push my luck. And I would never recommend that strategy to anyone else. Each one of us has to live in sync with our own sense of what’s what and what is called for in each situation as it arises. That is our strategy and our game plan. Which means we have to know what’s what and what’s called for in our body–not in our mind. Not in our intellect. Not in our head. We have to listen to our body and know what our body is saying in the way of “peaceful abiding, here, now.” That means settling peacefully into our body and knowing how things are with us and allowing our body to take the lead in directing our action here, now. Practice that at all times. Through all places. All our life long. In so doing, we learn how to read our body’s signals. We relax into Psyche, Intuition and Tao. To the point where we might consider ourselves to be untouchable, and that is the point where we begin to push our luck. People who go there sometimes never come back. Do. Not. Go. There.

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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