The task of our times
The task of our times is to find our oneness despite our different ways. Ways are simply ways, yet the destination, the destiny, is one.
:- Doug.
Archive for February 18th, 2011
How do we help these people see themselves as one?
The prophets of Israel had it easy: they could speak directly to a religious people of God. Our people form a plural society, with different meanings of God, indeed different words for God, and some are religious without any God, and some are not or even anti-religious, with or without a God. How do we bring these people together, help them see themselves as one? Help us see ourselves as one?
:- Doug.
our original shoots
Our original roots and our original shoots point us in the direction of seeing each person as a source of imagination and good.
:- Doug.
We must interrupt
Hear! When machines squeak and screech
When a baby coughs and wheezes
You know to attend what’s amiss
So now: when people march and shout
—This they do not when life is just—
When old and frail people are warehoused
Divinity Moans. We must speak forth;
Life must live larger: We must interrupt
We must bring the fire, bring the green shoots
We have a prophetic mission:
Reconstitute the earth
Its peoples make whole
:- Doug.
