Archive for December 22nd, 2006

“all walking around shining like the sun”

These days I am seeing often that all this is G*d. Not that we worship our fellow creatures, but that we see we are all shot through with G*d. As Thomas Merton puts it in Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, p 141, “people…are all walking around shining like the sun.” It is as if we are not subject to G*d as to some manic ruler, but caught in a web of love. This web is G*d, so we are all G*d: as the Bible says, “ye are all gods.”

:- Doug.

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because of our ears

It may be that because of our ears we hear “no one comes to the father but through me” inside out. We might hear instead that since Jesus went the way of men and stands in that way, all men trod the way—no exceptions. No one comes to the father but by the way I went. These too stand in this way, beckoning: Rumi, Rilke, Abraham, Buddha, Lao Tzu….

:- Doug.

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What is our work?

What is your work in the world?
Is that as big as it gets?
What is our work?

:- Doug.

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