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G*d is the peripatetic teacher, facing us, demanding of us a decision to throw our lives into the ring, then turning and walking away, beckoning us to come to a new place. A respiration: in to intimacy with Being, out to transcendence of Becoming.

:- Doug.

What did Jesus do? He healed and he ate with everyone. We may not be able to restore a cut off ear, but we can help get out hearing aids to people, and we might help people hear the voice of the upward call in their lives. We might even listen for it ourselves. We can eat with others, befriend the hungry, homeless and those in prison.

:- Doug.

What is the between? It arises, and before that it is potential. Can we recognize it both times? Is it in fact more potential when arising?

:- Doug.

What is the unfolding we seek? What does evolution look like, on the ground, in feet and hands and noses? First: to encourage the inborn Thou to meet others often, regularly, and as the normal stuff of life. Second: poor and hungry persons meeting together to improve life in this place for other people.

:- Doug.

It is necessary for us to get conscious about doing evolution.

:- Doug.

There is a Thou inborn in each of us who wants—desperately—to be met. From here comes our primal need to be heard. We must connect with others. Mizpah coins, epic lovers, and yin and yang have nothing on us, because for us to be wholly who we are requires us to fit with beyond finite numbers of others in uncountable dimensions. We must become more conscious about it.

:- Doug.

One reason conversation is difficult is that two people must turn: remove shields and masks, and open. One alone can encourage the other, but meeting eventually requires at least two.

:- Doug.