Dare pour out your blood upon the ground?
Your guts churn. Can you dare pour out your blood upon the ground—this ground? Our very power is expressed in will—what decision? Deciding is more difficult than doing.
:- Doug.
Archive for December, 2010
Footprints in the Windsm # 1111–We never really know ourselves except
Footprints in the Windsm # 1111
We never really know ourselves except as others reveal us.
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How do I make myself as large as the universe?
How do I make myself as large as the universe?
:- Doug.
Gathering people is gathering resources
As we gather people we gather our best and most bountiful resources. Gathering people, gathering resources.
:- Doug.
finding themselves resourceful
My interest is working directly with people on the margin to help them find themselves resourceful.
:- Doug.
The most disorganizing thing you can say:
Why disorganize? Because we think that we can do nothing with things organized as they are: others are in charge of that. “You are in charge” is the most disorganizing thing we can say to one another.
:- Doug.
A gathering work to do
You are divine, holy; you have a gathering work to do, reconciling. This is the gathering work.
:- Doug.
Riples, not waves/…
Ripples not waves
Gentle, gentle
Washing, caressing
Inviting tenderly
Meeting, conversing
Gathering, gathering
Not converts
Friends
:- Doug.
done, not merely tried
I need for me to stretch and say I’ve done my utmost; done, not merely tried.
:- Doug.
A Real God is suffering, surprising, weak
When we set up a mighty god in front of us, we are constructing something built on our wishes: desires for things or wealth or fame or popularity or destruction of others. A powerful god is a human ego-driven god. A real God, one who is real and meets us where we are is one who knows failure, defeat, and the need for hugs, one who is not afraid to say “Who knew?” A real God is found in reality: in unanswered prayer not just impossible wishes granted, in prisons not just achievement, in poverty not just wealth, in broken cluttered homes not in shiny and new, in sickness not miraculous cures, in still hush not loud pounding pulpits. A real God is suffering, surprising, weak.
That means we have work to get to.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1110–Sensing the tug
Footprints in the Windsm # 1110
In our daily separate rounds
Can we notice the drawing together
Reminding us of our common walk
In the face of our anger and fear
Sensing the tug of a string-work between us
Woven through customer rival & friend
In times with lover child & dog
But one life there is & this we all live?
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With is more your name
What is your voice? I am hearing the music of the spheres and the sound of still hush and the humming of mother to infant as your true voice. I am seeing Jesus the babe and Jesus the crucified as being your true picture, Immanuel with us, immanent God, walking and hugging and calling us to walk and hug by you. With is more your name than many others I can think of. With.
:- Doug.
Drama needs conflict. Does life?
A question last night: Drama needs conflict. But does life? Is stretching closer to the truth? Is pressure a better word? Interesting that they have opposite pictures, accordion-like. Maybe we need both pressure and stretching. Conflict can be the conduit for them, but what we really need is to stretch and to be under pressure to stretch, to move. Let’s let this percolate a bit.
:- Doug.
the other side, where there is life
The value of conflict in the cinema is it informs us that conflict can be survived—we can get to the other side, where there is life.
:- Doug.
Conflict is to drama as receiving love is to life
Conflict is to drama as receiving love is to life.
:- Doug.
Stretching, sharp relief, and attention
It is stretching and sharp relief and attention to what needs attention that is most important. Conflict is a dramatic way to get there, but there are other more effective ways.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1109–opening unlooked-for doors
Footprints in the Windsm # 1109
Conversation is to talk as calculus is to arithmetic, as fractals are to plane geometry. Conversation opens unlooked-for doors.
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