Archive for February 8th, 2009

Security and having everything figured

Women (and men too) are concerned with security and having everything figured out. Better to have not a directive but guides, signs in the skies not walls on the grounds. Better to have guides and parables and sayings as aids to choices, because we cannot know what the future will present us and we cannot build fences around the light.

:- Doug.

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Dare we ask blessing?

In our Will
from whom dare we ask blessing
to whom give our unfinished task
what unfinished task
would be our blessing?

:- Doug.

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We are not trying to say

We are not trying to say
something no one has ever before said
nor yet do
but to live as no one ever before lived
but still!
we do just this
without special effort
or with it
just so we are
we matter

:- Doug.

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Read a little more kindly, openly

When I read the saints of the Christian church from centuries before, I am put off by the self-flagellation that seems usual among people who felt that making themselves little somehow made G*d greater. As if G*d needed the help!

Yet they can be read a little more kindly and openly: Be wary of following only your own single desires; test them for universal love, beauty, truth, goodness. Simply feeding your desire for beer or food or sex is not the end; there is more to life. See that you keep your eyes there, for in this way we lift all, we love all, and love is the fulfilling of life.

:- Doug.

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