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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1205

There is so much
Good going on in this world
We have only to notice
Notice is letting in
Life seeing another being
Life hearing another heart
Notice what you’d like to let in

Please pass it on.

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Just because I’m using the words differently from how the professor uses them does not make the professor wrong.

:- Doug.

“When and how you do it to the least of these, you do it to G*d” is literally true, for G*d is in and through this one. As well “you do it to me,” for there is but one life.

:- Doug.

Reach out in expectation and risk, touch. This is the invitation from life. No promises.

:- Doug.

Cattle prods, pepper spray, what’s the difference?

:- Doug.

Reach forth to love.

:- Doug.

G*d is the quantum realizing
When you need him
When you need her
When you meet
When you reach forth
To a personality
Or a prayer
Coalescing

:- Doug.

There is a larger reality
of which you are a part
Inviting you
Invest your head
Invest your heart
Engage your hands
Jump in, be part
With us

:- Doug.

I focus the space so work can get done.

:- Doug.

G*d is not
a
point
not a
personality
yet all possible
points & personalities,
times & places
a quantum reality
all quantum reality
coming to a point
& being every here
back & forth
at once

:- Doug.

True or false: Leading is a spiritual discipline.

:- Doug.

Stretch forth your heart
the core of your being
to another being & you will be

:- Doug.

I learn my insights
speaking to your condition, our
condition

:- Doug.

What can I say to you who
want to learn how to lead?
You know.

:- Doug.

Stretch toward life, opening.

:- Doug.

Let me speak to gracious and courteous souls. The rest of you are invited along as well…but I expect only the former to hear. We grow whole.

:- Doug.

The three great wholeness needs of humanity are to be:
Invited
Freed
Welcomed home

:- Doug.

Not in a hurry
to get any place
we’re already here

:- Doug.

The way through
is together
The way ahead

:- Doug.

God permeates all
Flows through me
Is the betweens in which we converse

:- Doug.

We are perhaps frightened by our power and capacity, and do not wish to step off into open space. But we are the ones born with wings.

:- Doug.

We can do the larger, higher thing immersed as we are in holiness. Because we are nourished by life, we know what can happen here.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1204

Bringing capacity and need together seems to be a key to a new economy. We have the ingenuity, we have the people, what we think we lack is the money to bring the people to the need. Yet ingenuity can do the same work as the money. Without the downside of the moaning over its absence!

It is not money we need. What we need is food for today, a roof over our heads, clothing for our backs, and a means of locomotion. We have become so accustomed to using money to buy these things, we have forgotten there are other peaceful, respectful ways to get them.

So maybe we need to put out a call for Job Creation Brigades!

What might we invent? What needs are there that we might meet? Those without a job have a need. Those with a need have resources of varying kinds. Each person is a source of needs…and of resources. What we need is to get to work thinking up ways to bring people together. Money is a poor substitute for that.

Please pass it on.

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