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Footprints in the Windsm # 1079–Serve the whole/…

Footprints in the Windsm # 1079

Serve the whole
Most of my life
Like you
I’ve served myself,
My family, my country,
My church
Now in these whispered words
I hear
Serve the whole
Serve the holy
These are bigger
Than any of us suspected


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How we make meaning:

Conversation is how we make meaning. I’m all about conversation.

:- Doug.

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Wisdom resides among us.

At a meeting yesterday one person offered a view I had not seen. Unusual? No. We’ve all been there. Wisdom resides among us.

:- Doug.

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Looking through the lens of story….

One way to get meaning is to look at data through the lens of story.

:- Doug.

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Humans *have* changed….

The total number of facts have changed, the stories have grown, the meanings have multiplied: we humans had to change over the eons.

:- Doug.

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The triangle of conversation:

The triangle of conversation:

The Triangle of Conversation

:- Doug.

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Making meaning

Conversing is making meaning
first the facts
then the story
then the meaning
then back round again

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 30th, 2010 | No Comments »

G*d is unfolding

G*d is unfolding

:- Doug.

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G*d is life living

G*d is life living

:- Doug.

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G*d is mystery revealing

G*d is mystery revealing

:- Doug.

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G*d is creative ordering, that is, emergence.

G*d is creative ordering, that is, emergence.

:- Doug.

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God is nuanced.

God is nuanced.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 29th, 2010 | No Comments »

Big Bang and reductionist thinking

If we picture it all coming from one singularity, from which came universes & galaxies & planets & us, then why are we fixated on the idea that things are built up out of quarks and little particles?

:- Doug.

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The war is over. I’ve declared peace.

The war is over. I’ve declared peace.

:- Doug.

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I don’t have time to be angry.

I don’t have time to be angry.

:- Doug.

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Friend, I want to know you larger.

Friend, I want to know you larger.

:- Doug.

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Your Will: giving to your cause not children?

What’s the difference between leaving all you have to your children who have ample of their own, and hiding your light under a bushel?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 28th, 2010 | No Comments »

All I can say is G*d is larger than that.

All I can say is G*d is larger than that.

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Windsm # 1078–Overrun by chickens!

Footprints in the Windsm # 1078

If we didn’t eat all those eggs
The world would be
Overrun by chickens!


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G*d is not less than the universe.

G*d is not less than the universe.

:- Doug.

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Freedom from judgment, regret

Jesus gave us freedom from judgment and regret.

:- Doug.

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Diversity brings possibilities

Diversity in a group brings possibilities—possibilities that someone will spark an idea never before thought.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 27th, 2010 | No Comments »

Getting fire

Put paper and oxygen together and you can get fire! Put people together and you can get fire!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on July 27th, 2010 | No Comments »
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