What names us as human
What names us as human
is not always practical
:- Doug.
Be practical
by all means
but make time to
sing
:- Doug.
Archive for December, 2012
On not selling my time
Not so much my time I sell
but offer you a companion
walking alongside
with
:- Doug.
this is your With
It’s not the greatness of our acts
It’s not the love you hold while doing
It’s the love with which
Of that other realm the coin
This With
Yet if you are given
to speak to
to write upon
ten other hearts
or ten thousand
this is your
With
:- Doug.
Sleeping in
Starting work early in the day expresses our unexamined anxiety that there is not enough time, not enough of what we need to live. Conversely starting work in a more advanced part of the day says to our souls: there is enough, you are enough.
Sleeping in can be a spiritual practice.
:- Doug.
pouring out
In the work we do each day,
To the people around us,
We each pour out our lives
:- Doug.
as if
How’s this working for us
all our toiling & running about as if
there were such a thing as control?
:- Doug.
Where is the strong antagonist?
In the West we have one God
absolute, good, light, right, perfect
& no strong antagonist
on the side of wrong and dark and broken
could it be—the counterpart is depicted as—
us?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1292–Together we are weak
Footprints in the Windsm # 1292
“Together we are strong” read a large banner about Newtown. We can understand the sentiment, but I would rather say, Together we are weak. There are times it is good to mourn, to cry, to be powerless. The times are better when we do so together. Powering through is not what I want or need. A tragedy of such moment brings us together in a way that strength cannot.
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Both easy and difficult to die so
Jesus died upon the cross to let me see I must die upon my cross for love’s sake—& that it is both easy and difficult to die so, uplifting & pain-filled, killing & fulfilling. Our biggest sins are to walk past our opportunities to love, & for the forgiveness of this & the calling to the surpassing of this, Jesus died.
:- Doug.
Bearing with one another
Bearing with one another
The burdens of our divine humanity
The elations of our falling shorts
:- Doug.
This is what
This
is life
This
is loving
This
is what the world
has to offer
& we
—whatever we do
wash floors
make love
sit in worship—
prime exemplars
:- Doug.
Stand in contrast to what is
Accept what is &
stand in contrast
to what is
Stand for
—your choice—
I know nothing about God
this not knowing can be
a contribution to right relation
I say to you Doug Germann
stand in contrast to what is
Stand; no need to speak
nor to argue; but this may confront
Stand in contrast
give us choices
:- Doug.
