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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1050

Hear, hear with my heart
Empty, empty to receive
Now, now is new

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Action means engaging the holy in each other
Community means engaging the holy in each other
God means engaging the holy in each other

:- Doug.

There is a level deeper than the heart. Here we can truly meet.

:- Doug.

Many raindrops in many places seeking each other form the great river.

:- Doug.

Meta-community moves out of talk into action, from reacting into deeper understanding into foundational acting. We move from leaves gone by winter to roots to growing strong limbs.

:- Doug.

Stand still and observe
What is flooding toward us?
What is flowing from the past
From our wholest our source?
What is deluging us from the future
From our highest our calling?
Hear
We stand
From here we move at the confluence
Of two great rivers and
We, we direct the flow
From
Here
Hear

:- Doug.

We need to make time for reflection and even silence. For it is here that we poke holes in the grey cloth that is covering our heads, holding us in the realm of constantly done that been there.

:- Doug.

If we want to get to a different place, we need to take a different train.

:- Doug.

Community can never be complete, but it can be whole.

:- Doug.

It’s not my goal. It’s my Why. Bigger thing.

:- Doug.

The world has ample projects to heal it. It is well we do, but we risk fragmenting. We need to keep these communities together as one meta-community.

Importantly, this meta-community is less imposed less suffered more allowed more invited.

:- Doug.

What if love were not something you did to someone—more precisely at—someone? Could it be a flow we stepped into, allowed to wash around us?

:- Doug.

Empty… hearing… heard… whole.

:- Doug.

We are a humble, flashing part
with God
of the moving
doing
loving

:- Doug.

Love is only love if it is action for compassion and justice.

:- Doug.

This is how God is with us—in our odd sense of humor, in our every movement.

:- Doug.

Hear already. Jesus is already here. We are already here. Let’s get on with it.

:- Doug.

AH—already here!

:- Doug.

Only remember, we are already here.

:- Doug.

Now, now is new—and already here!

:- Doug.

What we have here is a communicating and communitying, but it could be better.

We are already here: we are here, in this place together, let’s take time and attention to see and communicate and be in the space of each other. Let’s relax and be.

This is the meaning of relaxing: allowing ourselves to be, to be wholly whom we are. We are divine. We are sacred. We can receive what others have to give, remind them of their sacredness, be in holy space together.

This is where we are and whom we are: holy place, sacred people. Nothing more is necessary, everything more is required of us: our whole being.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1049

Death is a passage
Through an orchard
There are fruits
There are tangled parts
Where few have been
Orchards are part
Human intervention
Part natural processes
Over yonder is the house
Where I used to live
On the other side is light
In between is orchard friendly
And a little unknown

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Relax
You & I, already here
Step through the unreal
Your self-made wall

:- Doug.