We can do something, let’s do it.
We can do something, let’s do it.
:- Doug.
Grace gathers us all to her table, makes us one family. Gathering makes one.
:- Doug.
Archive for May, 2011
With your fingertips
With your fingertips
an infinite stream of life
to lightly touch
Ask a question, tell a story:
Invite conversation
:- Doug.
Why demand years of practice and guides?
Why should touching God demand years of practice and guides? Many have been touched without these. Holiness seeks all heart.
:- Doug.
I met a man yesterday….
I met a man yesterday who in the twentieth year of his retirement, despite, maybe because of, physical disabilities, reads a book a day. His mind is sharp, his handshake firm, and he smiles a lot at a world he finds fascinating.
:- Doug.
We is better than any individual
We is better than any individual: We honors each individual. We honors the voices unheard, the larger voice we do not always wish to attend, the voices and voice calling us to be better, to seek the good of all.
:- Doug.
There is a oneness
There is a oneness which I have seen and experienced in contemplation which calls us to the higher, which is always compassion. We converse out of compassion, compassion calls us to converse. If we work out a theological politics which calls us to hate, this is far from God, Christ, Jesus, Muhammad, and Abraham. This is far from our highest transcendent humanity. What is the best we can be? Certainly we can do better than to hate.
:- Doug.
The thin spot
We can meet, we have met. There is that thin spot where the holy and the mundane touch, as on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, as in the narrows of the hourglass, as in the contemplative sitting beside. And so we can become intimate, even if without words, without thoughts, without images.
:- Doug.
What is right for Bob?
What is right for Bob? What would make his moments and hours better, relieve his pains of whatever nature? From his point of view? What if you were someone else’s child visiting him while you were visiting theirs? Does it hurt if he has a phone or a daily hamburger? What difference if he does not eat his vegetables?
:- Doug.
the divine is persons
We meet the divine in other humans, and in this way, the divine is persons.
:- Doug.
What would family wholeness look like for your family?
What would family wholeness look like for your family?
:- Doug.
Much of what does not work is top down
Much of what does not work in our world is top down. This is where community disorganizing can do its good work, helping us to start at the roots and grow up.
:- Doug.
How do we make this a better place for our elders?Converse! Engage.
How do we make this a better place for our elders?Converse! Engage.
:- Doug.
If we want our best future
What are we missing? What voices are not heard? Where is the leading edge, or where might it be? A variety of this question draws us to bring in the latest best selling author and expert to share new ideas, leads us to buy the latest books. We wish to expand our reach, to consider every option that might be viable. It is the reason we need to meet our own unusuals: we might mistake our sameness for reality. It is the reason we need to hear the voice of the Hispanic, the aboriginal, the gay and lesbian, the slow to speak, the dull, the differently abled, those who think tactilely and auditorially, those who think in wholes and those who think in parts—if we want the best future.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1153–The forest has a light all its own
Footprints in the Windsm # 1153
The forest has a light all its own
Soft and animal friendly
By which to see the paths growing
Fainter do still go on,
But deeper, to a shimmering light
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Perhaps is a word of hope….
Perhaps is a word we can share, often. Perhaps is a word of hope.
:- Doug.
Grasping moving streams
There is something more, something other than us, afoot in the universe. We have not been able to put our finger on it. This something is beyond our ken, but yet it touches us, whispers past and is gone to come again. Through history, poets and prophets and sages have touched it, or rather been touched by it. Sometimes we try to describe it with our rational mind and it eludes us; sometimes we simply try to get next to it. We need both parts of us to grasp it and possibly something else: how does one grasp a moving stream?
:- Doug.
Now is holy
Now is holy
Other
Standing out beyond ourselves
Here is holy
Other
Between and among
Holy us
Holy is as Holy meets
:- Doug.
Elder care is things done to things. Caring is among friends.
Elder care is things done to things. Caring is among friends.
:- Doug.
