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:- Doug.

G*d is in the whole, and in the flow of the whole. We are not just in the flow, but flowing itself. We are current.

:- Doug.

A goal ends; a purpose follows through.

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People in need have something to give us. All people have something for others.

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The world is complex and to live well within it will take all of us together.

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The flow is there to contend with us.

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Allow the wind to blow around and through you. Then stand, and make footprints in the wind.

:- Doug.

We are expected to stand up to the roaring face of the wind, to contend with the forces of divinity, to wrestle not for peace but for our effort among the hundred goods.

:- Doug.

We have thought that G*d was within us. Now we can see.

The stream flows and will flow with or without us. But we can bend it. We are invited, expected to give our turn to the stream, to say that we were here and our effort mattered. We gave all that we had to give. We gave the best we had to give. The best is in gathering and multiplying.

:- Doug.

We are a divine force, activated togethering. We listen to hear; we wait; we stand in the face and invite something new, larger than us: good.

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We become most ourselves—a divine force—when we converse. It is an active-passive thing we do and are: we are both standing up to and allowing the streaming to flow through us. It is the stronger force, yet we bend it. And we bend it sometimes by hand and muscle, sometimes by inviting, sometimes by witnessing and waiting.

:- Doug.

Divine force flows and swirls, moves people and times, and we are most in communion with it meeting.

:- Doug.

Coming together in conversation can be done consciously with the purpose of bringing us in alignment with the whole.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 953

We are given a back and fingernails that we might know our need for, and our joy at receiving, the aid of another.

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We bring the future forth only together.

:- Doug.

There is a force divine that we find ourselves within, and we are a part of it, we share its essence. When in conversation, we are in that force divine and sometimes almost conscious of it. There is a lift, a hope, a drawing together that is of love. This whole is creative energy and flows through us when we come together. When we separate ourselves we cut ourselves off. When we come together we participate in the unfolding which decides the direction of the future.

This is the way it has been always. The clan, the tribe sat around the fire. The king gathered round his knights and vassals. The people who saw they could be in charge gathered in counsel together.

:- Doug.

As we hear each other our vision improves, for we share others’ views.

:- Doug.

Our meetings so often fail because our meetings so often provide no opportunity to meet.

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The mourning is with a purpose—to deny the reign. & we are all the monarch.

:- Doug.

We do not want to be saved: we want to be wholly thrown away!

:- Doug.

Present, I AM THERE, Immanuel, sees you when you’re sleeping…, before the world I am, of Abraham, love—all these say:

The world is not: God is each thing (pantheos); nor yet God is in each thing (panentheos): more truly G*d is the whole.

:- Doug.

We spend so much time in discussion—little brother of percussion and concussion—beating things up, striking, shaking, fragmenting—that we have the fruits of it: beaten and submissive, we no longer remember that the world is up to us, and we do not see how to unscramble that egg.

:- Doug.

Organizations present us with structure which serves to direct and limit our efforts to specific tasks. Valuable in this, but when we allow limits on our minds and music, dangerous. We need give them their due and no more: necessary beyond are community disorganizers.

:- Doug.