Work on the anguish. Find G*d’s anguish, and build community there. Not for force of arms, but for soul force: upholding and nurturing one another, getting the best out of each other, finding the hope among us. It is in the amongs and betweens where G*d is found. Hope and truth and love and community are part of each other and the nature of the holy.
:- Doug.
Where are the needs and especially the anguish today? Do we even connect them as anguish? For instance, the earthquakes and hurricanes and crazy weather: we think we cannot influence those, yet the evidence is pointing in the direction that we have set some of these forces in motion. By the time there is proof, there might not be a livable world. This is cause for anguish. But it is not obvious.
:- Doug.
We have been satiated and surfeited to the point of numbness. We are numb to the world and think that what is always will be. Done that, been there, oh well: the things we say which are the coin of our realm. We are bored and overworked. We do not see the beauty of the sunrise, we are too tired to enjoy the sounds across the water of an evening, we did not see the stars overhead last night.
Numb. But is that something to cry over? It is, because we are losing our humanity. We are paving it over, building wallets on top, working not for the joy and action of working but in order to pay for health care insurance.
:- Doug.
We have answers to everything
look them up on the Web
it’s all there!
We have time aplenty—if we can catch up
it runs ahead
it runs out
Although we eat our fill
and beyond
we hunger and thirst
But the answers are empty
in the time is no fullness
in the filling is emptiness
:- Doug.
How does G*d suffer over us—wring hands over what we do—these days?
:- Doug.
What was the promise spoken over us
As we were born?
Is it still active?
Or even imaginable?
What part of your life
Are you willing to give for it?
:- Doug.
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