People become part of us when
People become part of us when they are heard.
:- Doug.
People become part of us when they are heard.
:- Doug.
If we are to make a change we need to change not just incrementally, but fundamentally. We need to get all the people involved, not just the governments, for the governments are both lacking in power and lacking in will to make the changes. Involving the people calls for a new way to meet.
The work is intricate because the issues are so finely interwoven and tangled. This calls for more brainpower than one president or governor or mayor possesses, more than one congress or parliament possesses. It calls for more innovation than they have the will to pursue.
So we need to get people thinking together—not being spoken at. People need to be not audiences, but active. So we need to meet in ways that puts people face to face, in circles where all are equals, all are respected, all are leaders. We need to birth new approaches, approaches that arise in the middle of group process.
This calls for small group and large group interweaving. This calls for new ways of being with each other.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 885
We are walking on the stomach of G*d: how then shall we walk?
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We call them the homeless, the hungry, the poor. But they are not Whats—they are people Who happen to be homeless, hungry, poor. We treat them as economic units needing repair and our solve-ation. We treat them as psychological problems “that” would go away if they would adopt our religion. When will we see them as persons, our friends, whole people not to service but as equals who have something to offer us? Let us ask their counsel, their help. Let us work together. Let us offer places and ways to volunteer and contribute, for in helping others is our humanity opened.
:- Doug.
The crisis underlying all crises is our failing to converse.
:- Doug.
G*d is much bigger than I think.
:- Doug.
Life needs to do life. When we ask against it, we ask unwisely.
* has given us dominion over life. We did not know but we are getting an inkling that life is *’s way of entering life—engaging, touching, melody and rhythm and dance.
:- Doug.
* comes to me as a you without a me.
:- Doug.
People like prayer maybe because it is the only time in which they feel heard.
:- Doug.
Sustainability is not a universally good word because the notion it conveys is seen as a threat by those seeking growth. In short it says you cannot have what you want. What we need is a word that reflects a common good. For instance growth of something of more importance than wallets. Family and community collaboration, perhaps. The question is how shall we choose to define growth and forward?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 884
Approach with love.
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Do not struggle and strain
Accept the gift
:- Doug.
When did you abdicate your duty to be in charge for the world?
:- Doug.
Grasping separates us from the world
Palms pushing away as well
Seeking is one stance
Whether for or from
Seeking holds us in our grasp
Finding is otherwise
:- Doug.
Each has value
To give
If he or she
Accepts the invitation
:- Doug.
Being is father, source of all being; Growing is son, source of all loving; Dancing is spirit, source of all living.
:- Doug.
You are a you
You are more than a you
Yet you are not separate from us
You are there
That
You are there
Here in the dying and the crying
The laughing and the hugging
And the dancing
:- Doug.
Living lives, living is—
Loving
Dancing
Listening
Accepting invitations
Allowing what is
Taking responsibility
Being the action,
The growing of the world:
Being, Growing, Dancing
:- Doug.
I’ll not argue
With people who
Don’t want
People taking charge
I’ll invite
Those who will
:- Doug.
Conversing to take charge.
:- Doug.
Which is wiser, fuller, more loving—seeking, eyes only on what is sought—or finding, eyes on what is found?
:- Doug.
Which do we need more—to know new things—or to do new things?
:- Doug.
Here is the conversing of life with life, conversing with conversing.
:- Doug.