Archive for June, 2008

enter a sacred space

I enter a sacred space
The space of community
Hear: to see what arises
Hear: to touch divinity emerging
Together we bring the space

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 30th, 2008 | No Comments »

Not, Who is G*d?

The question is not Who is G*d? but Who are we together in divinity?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 30th, 2008 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 868

Footprints in the Windsm # 868

If we see wind and breath and spirit as understandings of one word we owe it to ourselves to keep all in mind as we apply that word. If we hear a calling to include unheard voices and marginalized peoples and another to meet our budgets, we owe it to ourselves and our grandchildren to work to include both in our response. We progress when we include more criteria for progress.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 29th, 2008 | No Comments »

10 or so Remands

The 10 (or so) Remands for Our 21st Century

1. Loving is our work: loving those who live with us in our homes, neighborhoods and worlds; loving those who have no one; loving those who are hard to love; loving wastefully, expecting no thanks and no repayment; loving even ourselves when we fall short, loving our efforts and intentions and attempts.

2. We will walk and work together, knowing that community is the completing of us, that community is of G*d.

3. We take into ourselves the responsibility to grow into a fuller humanity, including all, however they differ, knowing that love and truth are in our differences, and that love is superior to truth. We will seek truth wherever we can find it, will listen to all and seek them out, and will discard as readily as we can what is no longer truth. We will uplift each other, showing each other a new more excellent way.

4. We take responsibility for the health of our world—the earth, the universe, and all children even beyond the seventh generation. We will use resources wisely, restoring what we take, leaving the place cleaner than we found it, giving life.

5. We pledge to each other to make all our decisions for the welfare of the whole human race. We will work to: curb our spiraling birthrate; use our rich resources to feed both rich and poor; bring to center whomever is marginalized; remember the oneness of all; and live as if we all mattered.

6. We will bring to living, loving and being the wonder and hope of life and what is sacred and divine among us. We pledge to each other to grow in vision and maturity, taking responsibility for loving.

7. We will all together and each take responsibility for adding, changing, varying and contradicting these Remands, knowing that living, loving and being are always growing….

:- Doug.

(For this full article, see here.)

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2008 | No Comments »

Disconnected from life and responsibility

We have disconnected ourselves from life and from our responsibility to life. All around we see it—passion’s absence, people going through motions, tired of it all. There is more and it is in life!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2008 | No Comments »

Who has talents he or she does not recognize?

Whom do you know who has talents he or she does not recognize? What three or five people can we bring together to develop talent teams, to make something new happen in the world?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2008 | No Comments »

Conversation is loving, living, being

Engage persons in conversation, which is to say in loving, living and being. Loving, living and being is widely, deeply, intricately, committing to causing.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2008 | No Comments »

Engage and encourage community

Engage and encourage community, for G*d is community. Here lives the divine human.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2008 | No Comments »

Where is it written?

Where is it written? Do you need to find it written? Here, I’ll write it for you.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2008 | No Comments »

What being do we share?

What being do we share? Not merely within each of us, but between and among us?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2008 | No Comments »

Fullness of life

Fullness of life
Fullness of love
Fullness of being
This is fullness
Inviting

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2008 | No Comments »

Two birds

Two birds fly by my window—one just clearing the roof line, one barely missing the corner of the building. Where are the birds flying? They can find seeds and grubs on any square yard of lawn, so they could walk. They may need to get up into the trees to get away from predators, but why then fly this moment, this sunny morning, when they are not escaping nor heading for a nest? Is there joy? Is there looking for something better elsewhere? Is there scattered thinking? Do they have a shadow? What is for them the more?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2008 | No Comments »

Love the darkness

Love the darkness into wholeness.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 26th, 2008 | No Comments »

The wholeness of good and evil

The wholeness of good and evil, light and dark adds new meaning to depth in conversing: the good and the evil each give relief to the other, allow them to be seen, allowing us to choose the better, wholer way.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 26th, 2008 | No Comments »

Community’s role is central

The job of working out wholeness belongs to the community. Community’s role is central. We cannot be whole as individuals because there is much more of us out there. The good need the evil and vice versa. It is not about cutting this out of people for it is part of our being; it is somehow about loving including. What does that mean and what can it look like? This is the task of community.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 26th, 2008 | No Comments »

Life is not a battle with evil

Life is not in battle with death, with evil, for evil is a part of each of us, or humanity, as much as death. As if the right foot were at war against the left! We cannot chop off evil; we can only love the person, can only practice wholeness. This is precisely why hurt and hope arise at once in the telling of human stories. Telling and hearing are in community: they are essential to wholeness and therefore so is community. Because hearing is necessary to telling, community is necessary to wholing.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 26th, 2008 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 867

Footprints in the Windsm # 867

I’m after bigger fish. I’m after life, that is, G*d.

This is news we can use, because when we find a hook for G*d, we have found a hook for persons, life and change.

If we are fishers of humans, we are fishers of G*d. When we hook each other, we have hooked G*d!


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 25th, 2008 | No Comments »

In our early history

In our early history much was done for the survival of the tribe: subjugation of women; lifetime mating to ensure continued reproduction (for if women were free to choose mates—or not—there might be fewer warriors, workers, or survivors); group hunting; avoidance of or war with threatening tribes. But today we need a different calibre of working together: working across tribes; working beyond survival to creativity; working beyond fear to possibility.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 25th, 2008 | No Comments »

Never had to

We have never had to talk this way before. Circumstances now are demanding that we talk more openly, inclusively, chargeably than we have ever.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 25th, 2008 | No Comments »

Be kind to myself

Be kind to myself, loving: I am evolving, getting more open, more loving, more whole. So all.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 25th, 2008 | No Comments »

Some do not wish to see more

You, sitting where you are, see what is behind me, a whole different panorama from what I see behind you and to your left and right. I can learn from your point of view, from your wisdom, from your experience, and together we can create new wisdom and knowledge and possibility—O! the possibility! Instead, I elect to construct a wall between us, saying I do not wish to see what you see, I do not want to see more.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 25th, 2008 | No Comments »

We must respond

It is not the issue that this is new, that this is something we have not done. The issue is that we are presented with a new setting and we must respond: the best response is to see together what the best response is.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 24th, 2008 | No Comments »

Loving

Conversing is loving.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
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