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This is the turning you want, Lord, yes?–to turn the heart. It is not a simple matter, or at least not easy. But it is what metanoia is, it is what love is. It is not the simplistic matter that the fundamentalists tout, this being born again: for it requires a death before the resurrection, it requires us to give up something we held on to before, and want, still. Repent, return: what is it? To return to our beginning time? I started to read Genesis in this meditative way and got delightfully lost in the first verse. Now the second verse needs some wandering around within, some turning, some returning to you. The separation of light from dark, the things that are good, and the all that is good. If we live in this beginningness, then we see much of the Bible differently. Perhaps the idea of examen or lectio divina stems from here, or can be informed from here. This is the turning: to return time and again and allow G-d to rebirth you.

:- Doug.

G-d is beginning
us
each now

:-Doug.

Is life here to support business or the other way around?

:- Doug.

Prayer is not all about you sharing with G-d: it is listening for what G-d wants to share with you–including being together in silence.

:- Doug.

Where are the wonderful people? All around.

:- Doug.

This is the turning: to return time and again and allow G-d to rebirth you.

:- Doug.

If I am turning looking for G-d somewhere
else, behind my back, on the other side of
the mountain or on its top, or in
something spiritual,
I will not find.
But if I look
right where my eyes are looking,
in the nitty-gritty of this day, this task,
this thing that is taking my attention,
that is where G-d is.
G-d is here with me.
Do not turn: G-d is here.
Simply turn my heart to align with my eyes.
You are here. I am where you are.

:- Doug.