Archive for August, 2010

It is instructive to note Neanderthals ate only meat.

It is instructive to note Neanderthals ate only meat.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 31st, 2010 | No Comments »

Rather than sustain/…

Rather than sustain
Let us & all generations
Support life
Nurture our children
Generate new ways to
Be alive

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 31st, 2010 | No Comments »

What have I experienced of God?

What have I experienced of G*d?

I have experienced overflowing diversity. I have experienced personal connection. I have experienced the vision of the grey cloth and the rainbow lights. I have experienced my parents on the night of their deaths. I have experienced the love of a woman and of children and of grandchildren. I have experienced the growing of a garden, and all its production and all its disappointments and all its prolific weeds! I have experienced the profundity of connection with others—being heard, hearing—and the frustration of not having my agenda accepted by others. I have experienced, in short, many aspects. G*d cannot be kept in a can.

I have experienced synchronicity and I wonder at that, now more than before. It is not a matter of seeing a puppet master pulling strings to make it all fit, but a matter of wonder how it all does come together without a puppet master, in a much more subtle and nuanced way. I see that there is wonder and mystery here and more to learn, more to do.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 31st, 2010 | No Comments »

from which we weave the cloth alive

When we chose to be born into the joy and good of family, we accepted the necessary pain and evil. These are all wrapped in the package, multicolored threads jumbled in the box, from which we weave our cloth alive.

:- Doug.

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

And we say that humans have not changed.

We now have the power to end all life on this planet—on purpose. Not even nature has this power. And we say humans have not changed.

:- Doug.

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

Look at beans!

God is growing
—Look at beans!
God is caring
—Look to the rains!
God is diversifying
—Look at the animals, plants, people!

:- Doug.

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

Where do we get the models?

We ascribe many things to God—anger, hands, eyes, voice—but where did we get the models for these things, and to what reality do they point?

:- Doug.

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

Less taking control

God is larger than we thought
More in control
Less taking control

:- Doug.

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

Opportunities to engage culture with culture?

What are the opportunities to engage culture with culture? To see the wealth of possibilities in engaging each other?

:- Doug.

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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1086–Apply salve here, invite this one and that one, bring the world together.

Footprints in the Windsm # 1086

Apply salve here, invite this one and that one, bring the world together.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on August 28th, 2010 | No Comments »

How do I bring the God who converses?

How do I bring the God who converses?

:- Doug.

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

Growth!/Is is what Life!/Is about/…

Growth!
Is is what Life!
Is about
We are hear
Less to prepare
For an other world
More for this & Now
Ever
To See
What is possible

:- Doug.

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

Installing software, expecting things to be out of sync

When we install new software, we can expect several things to be out of sync. The same is true of cultures: when we bring peoples together and new ideas together, there will be a time while we adjust one to the other, before we can play together well.

We must be willing to both work through this period and make adjustments ourselves.

:- Doug.

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

Question. Story. Converse.

Question. Story. Converse.

:- Doug.

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

Giving all

God gave all—his beloved son. Jesus gave all—for his friends. Why would we not want to do so too?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 26th, 2010 | No Comments »

Lincoln said love the place where you live

It is all about loving God: God so loved the world, so why wouldn’t we?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 26th, 2010 | No Comments »

closer to the really real

Testing and exploring, trying things out, seeking to find our for ourselves: this means we are not taking anything on authority or on tradition or on what is written somewhere, but we are testing out for ourselves what might bring us closer to the really real.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 26th, 2010 | No Comments »

metaphor: using inappropriate words to speak about what we know not

When it comes to God no one knows, everyone is an agnostic, and everything we say about God is a metaphor: using inappropriate words to say some things that might help us learn more about what we know nothing.

So when I am playing with metaphors what I am really doing is testing out the metaphors to see what they might teach us, knowing that none of them tell the whole story and that the map is not the territory, nor is the word God.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 26th, 2010 | No Comments »

Will Earth choose brain?

Universe as body of God:
Shall Earth be the brain
Or the heart?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 26th, 2010 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1085–Today, I love.

Footprints in the Windsm # 1085

Today, I love.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on August 25th, 2010 | No Comments »

Playfully–to play, to play

Playfully—to play, to play
Testing & Trying
Seeking and Hugging
Something more & All this

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 25th, 2010 | No Comments »

If you want to be clear why choose a word like hermeneutics?

If you want to be clear why choose a word like hermeneutics? Heuristic thought is a slightly better big word because I must work out for myself what it means.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 25th, 2010 | No Comments »

Our age is coming to a realization of the essential interconnectedness

Our age is coming to a realization of the essential interconnectedness of all. A drilling platform explode and an American presidency and people are put in crisis. A hurricane and a tsunami strike remote parts and the world responds in heart currency. An illness develops and is soon brought here by travelers. In such an interrelated world it can be little wonder that what is most needed and effective is to converse widely and intimately.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 25th, 2010 | No Comments »
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