Hope for something unseen, unprojected from now
There is hope
In meeting
Hope for something new
Unseen
Unprojected from now
You can’t walk there from here
But we might
Converse ourselves there
—This too is a way of reverence
:- Doug.
Archive for April, 2010
at least in our hearts
G*d resides at least in our hearts, so let us lift high our hearts and do our best for each other and for G*d.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1047: The thing of which we are made feeds us most
Footprints in the Windsm # 1047
This morning I was reading Martin Luther King, Jr.’s doctoral study of theology concentrated on personalism—a term I had not heard before. It holds, in part, as I understand it now, that the human personality is at the center of the cosmos. My picture of that is like the result of the big bang—all constellations and stars start and therefore are at the very center at all moments and are simultaneously moving out into the world from there, expanding the space between them, expanding the love in which they swim. And so it is natural that the thing of which we are made is what feeds us most.
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:- Doug.
What are mansions good for? Parties! Banquets! Gathering!
Heaven is not cells for each soul, but has mansions. And what are mansions good for? Parties! Banquets! Gathering!
Heaven is not composed of mansions, either. Heaven is composed of G*d—the same as here. We are children and of G*d is our very essence. When we meet face to face we shall see our family resemblance, we shall see our face in the face.
:- Doug.
Community is what G*d does
We are seeking what is higher and better residing in us, indeed the higher and better within which we are residing. What is this if not truth and love and beauty, in a word, G*d? Community is where G*d is alive. Community is what G*d does.
:- Doug.
the thing we are doing is larger than us
We need to find G*d in between us, among us, for the thing we are doing is larger than us. But it is us: us is bigger than us, yes? For if we do not see G*d here, then where?
:- Doug.
we can open the world to spirit
We do not generate spirit, but we can open ourselves and the world to spirit. We can open space for the world to be larger. This is not simply a social fact of life, but a profound spiritual fact of life.
:- Doug.
Do you see/—Things—/…?
Do you see
—Things—
Against which to compete
Or
—People—
With whom to meet?
:- Doug.
Go It Alone culture
We are not so much a
Do It Yourself culture
As one which is
Go It Alone
:- Doug.
Look to/The wind/The ground/The life everywhere/…
Spirit is bigger than
The pie in the sky
G*d is more than
Puppeteer
Whose strings we pull
Look to
The wind
The ground
The life everywhere
The person near
:- Doug.
We do not spirit generate/…
We do not spirit generate
We welcome, accept, allow, invite
We open to it
Spirit is our
Amongs & Betweens & Throughs
Gathering allows us to touch
:- Doug.
Large or small? Important or mundane?
What is our role in this world? What role do we choose? Large or small? Important or mundane?
:- Doug.
Sign for elderly in nursing homes:
Sign to see on every elderly person in a nursing home: “Ask me what I prefer.”
:- Doug.
what makes us worthy of life
We need to find our deeper wave-length, the rhythm and heart beat of what makes us worthy of life. Be still this moment and hear.
:- Doug.
Friend, we grieve this living, dying world. Oh!
Friend, we grieve this living, dying world. Oh!
:- Doug.
Challenge people to be community:
Challenge people to be community: to experience anguish together. To grieve together. Then to hope together.
:- Doug.
The problem with global warming is that word “warming.” We are the frog in the boiling pot….
The problem with global warming is that word “warming.” We are the frog in the boiling pot. If it were called global hell-fire, then maybe people would get out of their sofas. No one is worried about sustainability. Only concerned. Until we get in anguish about it, nothing will get done.
:- Doug.
Find the anguish. Build community there.
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?….
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.
