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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 906

What I care about is that you see your divinity and act on it.

Please pass it on.

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It’s about finding something
beyond emotion—
Experience
Primal

:- Doug.

We must be about
finding one another
where we live—our heartbreaks
dancing our joy
dancing our pain
finding our need for one another
finding one another

:- Doug.

People are seeking
to converse
Love them
Spread by loving

:- Doug.

We have so many thousands of millions of people, people who are here only just now, it becomes necessary for us to get on purpose about inviting conversing.

:- Doug.

There was just now a leaf up high near the tree that kept going up, up. Now it is on the ground, but it gave hope in being airborne: lightness and traveling and flight. What if death were looked at as such? We become light and lift with a breath into easier realms….

:- Doug.

Every cell from a cell:
If we all have a parent
upon whom we depended
and who may depend upon us
the original cell
may be where we find our
species memory of being one
Here too perhaps is a conception of God:
the one from whom we proceed
still in our every cell
part of us
all of us
one

:- Doug.

Endeavor to infect others with conversation.

:- Doug.

If competition is the best rule of humanity, what then are we to do with truth and worth? What will the competition for truth look like? For worthiness? It will relate to holding back from the clear opportunity for physical and economic victory over in favor of what is right and just. These principles then must prevail and individual gain be secondary. Loss may indeed be preferred to winning.

:- Doug.

The meanings of our lives are the next steps we possess—next steps toward answers—and better questions.

:- Doug.

Human beings are living responses in search, not of a problem, but of someone to hear their voices on what confronts us.

:- Doug.

G*d may be a we
No a him but a whir—

:- Doug.

Learn, Share, Dare

:- Doug.

How best to use God?
You use God as
an adult
a friend
one who trusts and whom you trust
a confidant
a helper
a companion—sharer of bread
needing and needed

:- Doug.

In 2000, I prayed earnestly, hard, and many times for Bush to be elected. I feared greatly what might happen if Gore were elected. So I can, if I remember, have compassion for those who fear today.

:- Doug.

What happens in true conversation are not feelings expressed but experiences.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 905

All I can do is be of service to the world.

Please pass it on.

© c 2009, Learning Works, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Easy reprint permissions: 574/291-0022, or by e-mail to mailto:Doug AT FootprintsInTheWind.com. Back issues available at http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com

You are—
The force who draws us to one another
Meaning
Passion
Expecting
Inviting
Meeting
Facing
Educing

:- Doug.

Don’t make G*d small
with your prayers
Be after G*d’s heart
G*d is nearly adult you know

:- Doug.

Common caring
common purpose
commonly leads to
community

:- Doug.

You let the world be itself and you work subtly. You work through our hands and wings and fins and leaves and needles and seeds and waters and earth. You work through our self-organizing. You are these things: You are; “I AM.”

:- Doug.

Together let us wonder.

:- Doug.

Have faith in an even larger G*d: One who works through all for G*d is the All There Is, and who does not simply wave a magic wand and fix things to our order like a short order cook. G*d works through all and all works out in the end, but seldom on our timetable. Thus, G*d may heal us through death or loss of job or what we call tragedy, making us whole in ways we had not conceived, and not either as a Mr. Fix-it, but as a flow, a river carrying our tears and turning them to ointment for healing the world. A master-weaver gets closer, but a weaver of clouds and rainbows and blue skies and soaring falcons, of songs and dances and crops and wildflowers, of fishes leaping and bugs biting and great and small: weaving, weaving us all and all there is into stardust and big bangs now now now, hearing, being changed, hearing hearing hearing meeting meeting meeting sending sending sending weaving all this and inviting us.

:- Doug.