September, 2023

The Pelican 01/16/2015 Murrell’s Inlet, South Carolina — Atlantic Brown Pelican taking a break
Sit down,
be quiet,
and watch what occurs to you
without being engaged by it.

Notice the things that keep coming up
with a particular urgency about them
and tend to those things.

Allow yourself to respond to the urgent matters
and to take care of the routine
affairs of the day in their own time.

I've known the car has to be serviced for weeks,
but other things were more urgent,
and now the car gets its turn.

Everything according to its own urgency.
All in due time.

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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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