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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 960

Birdsong in the distance
echoing under the canopy
of the cathedral’d woods

borne on the winds
to our ears
All is well—

life means possibility—
sing with me
let your spirit wing—

Please pass it on.

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The next stage of our unfolding is coming together—

:- Doug.

We have this ability to imagine, within which we enfold ourselves all day: sun catchers, music, poetry, figurines, photos, jokes, sayings. Think about this: it is up to us to consciously make use of this facility to grow our species into something beyond what it has become.

:- Doug.

Grieving and energizing are forms of imagination vying against the royal consciousness. They are white tulips, women in all white or all black standing in the public square, a lone man in front of a tank loving the world’s people. They are the stories told to true and reconcile.

They are you and I and our neighbors, conversing. They are small circles of people all around the world, leaning in toward one another, making good.

This, then, is love. Imagining is loving.

:- Doug.

This is where grieving comes in: it says This, the what is, is a shame, something to cry over, not how it should be, not how it could be. It gives us a heaven to reach for. Then imagination comes in and extends this, saying, This is possible, there is more, what we can imagine spirit can engender. It gives us emergence, something more: beauty, truth, goodness.

:- Doug.

Imagination. Is imagination spirit? Imagination is free as G*d is free, free to see something that is not yet here. Free of culture, regime, milieu. Imagination creates, as G*d creates, out of what is here, out of whole cloth. Imagination speaks to imagination as height speaks to height, depth to depth, spirit to spirit. Imagination loves as G*d loves, wildly loves. Imagination is prodigal as the prodigal father. Imagination gathers as does the hen her chicks. Imagination is vulnerable as the babe, weak as the prisoner crucified. Imagination goes to the extent of the universe and further. Dreaming & imagination call to mind all divinity.

While I do not know if they are the same, we are free to use one as alias for the other.

:- Doug.

See, this is a little change which is big: we can make change. It is little because it is what we already knew: a few of us can take our situation into our own hands and build a better playground, plant a garden, care for a person in pain. It is big because it is a change in how we daily see ourselves and our place in the world: a change from done to to acting with; a change from me to we.

:- Doug.