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The brilliance of the family
The brilliance of the community
These we ought to respect
These we need to nurture

:- Doug.

Let us kindle one another’s brilliance.

:- Doug.

Seek to approach sleep with a question to take up with God.

:- Doug.

What are you doing?
Engaging G*d

:- Doug.

Together: brilliance!

:- Doug.

Conversation is sacred work in the family, it catalyzes our brilliance together. So too in community.

:- Doug.

Conversation is sacred work, catalyzing people’s brilliance.

:- Doug.

The prophets of old sometimes speak as if specific words were placed upon their tongues; but at times they may be speaking metaphorically. For me, I feel a call to bring a message. The exact message is slow (decades!) in coming. It may in fact be my duty to research, to work out daily the message by writing, speaking and meeting; to see what is unearthed by this sweat.

We receive our prophetic words as much in having to work them out as in being given dictation.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1151

Dance; relax into your life as it is now, as it must be for awhile.

Remember to dance a little, to smile a little, cry a little. Remember to go on. A leaf on a stream can be happy as it is to its end of the stream carried along.

This is about whole-making, healing, weal-making, well-making. Relax into your role; let it carry you like that leaf, and notice, look around: there are other leaves like you, floating. Some have tears and sweat and blood; some dance, maybe a little jig, maybe a dance of their weariness and sadness and grieving. All are carried along.

Please pass it on.

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Each person has a different touch on the shoulder (or maybe somewhere else!) and the touch becomes larger as we work between and among us.

:- Doug.

Unique & intimate the revelation
Given to each
Your light shines into
My shimmering darkness
Which rings out to
Her pregnant silence
Unique & intimate the revelation
—& larger—
Given between us
—& larger still—
Among us
As we meet
& after as we walk on
Carrying new ways to
Open

:- Doug.

We yearn for a God
It is human so to do
Our yearning is our reality
& G*d’s

:- Doug.

He asked his first boss, “What do I do?” She asked him “What do you want to do?” This is really profound.

How many of us do what we want to do in life? So often we do what we think we must do in order to earn a living. We get a job, buy a car and a house and wake up 40 years later.

For many of us, health is still good then, so we have a second chance to ask ourselves that question: What do we want to do? What would do the most good in the world, what would we like to see done to make this a planet hospitable to life?

There is much we can do, yet we spend our years spending our minutes. What do we want to do?

:- Doug.

We can’t know G*d
We can know G*d
We can’t know G*d
We can know G*d
We both can and can’t know G*d

:- Doug.

Conversation is work. It is seldom light and breezy. We are fitting ideas together, generating new, hearing hard stories, facing difficult tasks. Conversation is for work. Conversation is for hearing and hearing again, weaving what we hear, not what we came in with. Conversation is birthing work, and all birthing work is sweat, screaming, tears and blood.

:- Doug.

I do not find conversation always pleasant. Sometimes it is difficult, gut wrenching, down-making, anger promoting. Other times, even after the unpleasant parts, we come to new open land, where something is fresh and possibilities present.

:- Doug.

Conversations have beginning and an end; just now I’m in the muddle!

:- Doug.

Conversation is sacred work.

But for all that it is still work, and not always pleasant.

:- Doug.

Life comes at us in scatters and scraps, and daily our minds work to sew it together into a sensible quilt. What if the very itch to stitch were the underlying unity?

:- Doug.

I am about conversations to make better emergency medical decisions.

:- Doug.

We can be about conversing to change our corner of the universe.

:- Doug.

Conversing creates persons.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1150

Humans have a sacred faculty, something that the imagination can catch and fly upon, as upon a magic carpet. We may have a BS detector, but we are shy to openly give our heart to that which lifts us above the mundane.

Please pass it on.

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