Not to cure, only heal
Is the world
Torn and broken
Screaming in pain
—At the other
—Anything?
How can we respond?
In anger
With gentleness
Not to cure
Only heal?
:- Doug.
Archive for September, 2010
Footprints in the Windsm # 1089–Clouds late
Footprints in the Windsm # 1089
Some clouds at the moment, hurrying by, late for the meeting, flying through the deep blue skies.
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sometimes feel threatened by words
Ever since we were little children, sometimes we feel threatened by other’s words.
:- Doug.
Creation rolls on
Creation rolls on, and in an evolving world is for ever. The work of creation continues: not just repairing, but perfecting, expanding, making a better whole.
:- Doug.
Inventing a new language
We are trapped in our language and cannot see our way clear. Let us learn or invent another!
:- Doug.
The breeze refreshes my face/…
The breeze refreshes my face
The electrons on the screen dance
God is moving
:- Doug.
in depth metaphors speak of flow
Metaphors for God do speak of humans mainly, for it is the side of the relationship we see most clearly. But in depth the metaphors speak not of either God nor humans, but of the flow between: love.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1088–our grandeur
Footprints in the Windsm # 1088
What is asked of us
—of this grandeur living within?
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“For the love of God”
We are the love of God. “For the love of God” we say, and we say aright, for everything we do in this world can be done for and as this love, this movement, this healing.
:- Doug.
I have less trouble with verb talk
I have less trouble with verb talk about God, than noun talk: I can speak of what God does, but know practically nothing of “who” or “what” God is, and in fact I doubt that God is either a “who” or a “what.” Is God a “you?” Not even sure if Buber said so much; he did speak of meeting God, that all real living is meeting.
:- Doug.
Personing
God is not person and not less than person but is person-ing. God persons you and me, and be-s all beings. God “bears all things….”
:- Doug.
Godding
We most often use language of nouns for God: king, father, mother, lover, friend. These however for me are packages of the verbal moving. I am beginning (again) to see G*d as moving, not even motion, not a thing, not a being. Hard to express, since I am almost forced to say “a” “thing-ing” or being. This brings up to me the sieging forces who were dispelled with a rumor and a fear among them in an OT story: this is how God-ding works: moving through and among.
:- Doug.
Imago dei: we, the love
It is said humans are imago dei. In our acting we have the capacity to respond to and repair and heal the world: we can demonstrate movement between and together: love. How can we give body to God’s love of this world?
We are not the hands
not the feet
not the mouth of God
We are the love
This love moves
our
hands feet and mouths
to work
:- Doug.
Metaphors speak of relationships
A metaphor for God speaks less of the parties and more of the relationship, the betweens of God and humans.
:- Doug.
God as mothering
We can begin to see God as mothering, earth as God’s bodying forth, loving, befriending.
:- Doug.
God is the among and between, the movement: verb.
God is the among and between, the movement: verb.
:- Doug.
If I look between twigs and leaves I see
If I look between the twigs and leaves I can see sky between and mingling among them. If I look between and among people, what can I experience?
:- Doug.
Our ecstasy and God’s are one
Our ecstasy and God’s are one. There is but one life, one love, one ecstasy, and it meets.
:- Doug.
Going to base, finding ourselves
Let us go to base. Let us find out who we are, beneath any masks.
Let us find God. Let us let God find us. It is not a quest but a falling onto the downy bed. Once there, we get up and get to work. The cycle of coming home and going out to fulfill the world is the base.
:- Doug.
The emerging face
What is deepest in humans, what is perhaps deepest in all the world: this is where we have the inklings of God.
This points to this emerging picture of God’s face disappearing as God’s face as monarch, and re-emerging in the green of nature, the blue and grey of the skies, the thunder and the sound of still hush, the cry of the baby and the lulling of the mother, the face of a friend and of a foe, the flow of history, the meeting, ever the meeting.
:- Doug.
