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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1025

Rely on people to do the good that is in them. Call attention to that good. Remind them of their hearts. Tell stories of their prodigious powers. Connect them with other hearts and hands. Repeat their stories. Use their names with others. “The queendom of G*d is within you.” “You are the salt of the earth.”

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We are G*d, but we are not magicians (any more than G*d is) nor puppet masters. We do not walk on water, we do not feed five thousands. Still, we participate. We touch hearts like glasses lifted in celebration, and in that we participate in the heart of G*d. We are of the nature of G*d, spirit, wind, not defined—not limited—by any particular body. Still: quietly. Like a skin laid on the grasses, with and without dew, responding to the breath. We touch the one heart. We embrace. We is G*d. And not all there is of G*d. We participate, we are integral. We are not separate; we are part of the flowing, and even that misses the fact that the flowing is not noun but verb and adjective.

Adjective is to throw to. An adjective gives a picture of a game of toss—throwing to each other to see if we can catch. Also applies to tossing the conversational ball back and forth, seeing where it takes us. The picture is a good one, at least evocative: an adjective throws something new to the noun or other word, adding something to it, affecting it, changing its trajectory! So we participate in G*d by adding or changing the course and the inter-course of the personal: we, me, aimed.

Is this going anywhere new? The all as enfolded wholeness. We participate. We unfold and enfold, flow and particle like splashes in the waves. We clink hearts with one another, and in this is G*d: the we, me, meaning us.

:- Doug.

We are G*d: still we do not control nor possess nor even grasp; instead we participate.

:- Doug.

We become the light beams carrying the infinite images from one jewel to the next on Indra’s net. No longer are we static, or even flashing on and off, but we are full, we are plenum. We carry all, lightly: all are images and breath; all are light because brothers and sisters we are. We are full flow. We are valuable in ourselves and in all we reflect and carry and unfold into the world. We are particle, we are wave. We touch and swirl, finding what has heart and depth, releasing true beings into each other. Who we are is in between, flowing, capable not of being captured but only pursued. We are light speed. We hold everything, we are everything. We hold no power, except the power to open—to open ourselves, others, the all there is. And the power is not to hold but to release, to evoke, to invite in and then out: see and become all.

:- Doug.