Into our own hands
Let us be about taking the world into our own hands, heads and hearts.
:- Doug.
Our why is to make this community ours: to make us ours; to community us.
:- Doug.
Archive for April, 2010
Challenge the power resident
Gandhi and King were about challenging power resident in others; we now need to challenge the power resident in the attitudes within us.
:- Doug.
Why is divinity in community?
Why is divinity in community so essential for me? I see a larger potential in each of us, and somehow the largeness and development and progress of the world and the larger happiness of all there is is wrapped up in the actualization of this divinity. It is a Why, a direction, for the ever increasing wholeness of all there is.
:- Doug.
divinifying themselves
Communitying is the way we touch God, and that for me that is the purpose of communitying: to invite people to divinitying themselves: to see, touch, smell, and move out of, their divinity. Divinity in this sense means the essence of them which is identical to the essence of God.
:- Doug.
Essences the same
In communitying we discover
Divinity is among us
God is in us
We are in God
God is among us
We are among God
Essences not merely intermingled
but the same
:- Doug.
Divinity suppressed goes to the waist line
Divinity suppressed goes to the waist line! Life thrown away rots our community.
:- Doug.
perfection was not chosen
G*d is with us, G*d grieves with us, which means perfection was not chosen. Love in fact is not about perfection but wholeness, and wholeness starts with brokenness.
:- Doug.
building the fire by inviting and gathering
Oxygen, ignition and fuel are the intimate group doing the work; yet we must bring them together, building the fire through inviting and gathering.
:- Doug.
A mission to their supporters
King and Gandhi had a mission to their supporters as much as and before that to their opponents. They had to convince their people that where they were was not good enough.
:- Doug.
the point of the arrow
The point of the arrow is the small group in conversation; the shaft and the string are the organization and the impetus of movement.
:- Doug.
a professor cannot grasp
No plan has G*d
For the universes
But a Why
No steps
For us to walk
Only music
For dancing
:- Doug.
No plan has G*d
No plan has G*d
For the universes
But a Why
No steps
For us to walk
Only music
For dancing
:- Doug.
in us the seed of both
All have sinned and fallen short, but all have also loved. We have in us the seed of both evil and divinity.
:- Doug.
Entitled to be fed from their work
The lawyer, the doctor, the clergy person are each entitled to be fed from their work, to have a roof over their heads as much as the persons they serve. In other terms, do not muzzle the ox who tramples your grain.
:- Doug.
Law practice must be about compassion
Law is about justice, so law practice must be about compassion.
:- Doug.
We, too, have the authority to forgive
In forgiving so publicly 70 X 7 times, Jesus was saying we too have authority to forgive. And the duty. It is for each of us and for all of us.
:- Doug.
We can do what Gandhi and King did, but for community and conscousness
If King and Gandhi could turn love into a force for political change, we can do the same for change in community and consciousness. Jesus’ good news of love to each other is often interpreted as solely referring to the interpersonal. Gandhi and King showed us that it can be used for a force for mass political change. Our task is to make it into a force for pervasive change in the way we see our world and in the way we work together in, on and for our world.
:- Doug.
