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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 857

Our theology has been looking the wrong direction: we have been looking at God, trying to define God when all along we should have been trying to see what humankind is and could be, in relation to God.

For instance, in Genesis God says to Adam—Here is the world—take charge. So tell me, in your life what have you done to take charge of the world?

At the end of the Gospel, Jesus calls us his friends—when was the last time you called him “Friend?” When have you acted as if he were your friend?

In the Ten Commandments, God told us what not to do—have you tried to noodle out what that leaves open to us?

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To make a world we love—
this the world of conversation

To make a world we love
This is our invitation
This is our challenge
This is unending, always new,
always fun

:- Doug.

The conversation is new because it is new every day, every conversation. It is a new opportunity to meet, to make a world.

We have not talked like this before because we have not been here before. We have not talked like this before because the opportunities for big talk have never existed before. We have not talked like this before because we are just now starting to feel the population compression.

This conversation is new also because we have never before had this much mind capacity for the intricate.

:- Doug.