Let us be sharing stories
Let us be sharing stories of people dying well.
:- Doug.
Who and what practices allow people to die well?
:- Doug.
Archive for April, 2013
This makes you infertile
Questions being more pregnant than answers, having all the answers makes you infertile.
:- Doug.
Common ground with God?
If to reach me you speak to me from common ground, how then does God speak to each of us?
:- Doug.
Loving them as they die?
How then shall we live as we die? How then shall we love them as they die?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1317–Looking with elders’ eyes
Footprints in the Windsm # 1317
We should honor our insights but also our pain and even our despair for our world. Avoiding, running away from our pain and despair, is doing us no good. If we look with long-view eyes, wise eyes, elders’ eyes, perhaps some of us will see some things we can do. That is better than doing nothing, or continuing to contribute to the problems.
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How to speak to reach me
To reach me
Speak from the heart
Speak from experience
Speak from common ground
:- Doug.
Speaking to us through our skin
What’s divine can speak to us through our skin and our feet and fingers and the seat of our pants as well as through our heads and our prayers.
:- Doug.
Brought my eyes back home
By being so busy, I have been blocking what’s divine around me. Changing my line of sight brought my eyes back home.
:- Doug.
Today, some have flowed
Today, some thoughts and words have flowed. That is good. They come from my intention to be open and relaxed for a time.
:- Doug.
Unrealistic expectations
There was a phrase in one end of life study report I read this morning: unrealistic expectations. Families have unrealistic expectations about what can be done for their loved one at the end of life.
We can say that whatever we weak humans do or withhold of our technology can be overcome by God. We ought to send what help we can. But what is help? Help with life, or help with suffering? What if they conflict?
You cannot overcome the conflict by simply saying do not interfere with God, because that pretends the conflict does not exist.
Our unrealistic expectations are that Dad will get better: see, Dad is rallying. Yet those who have seen these things times before know this is a common stage of a common path with a common goal.
We are afraid to speak truth to one another, to share what we are reading in the handwriting on this wall. So we hold out unrealistic hopes and we shut our minds to what is in front of our eyes. Do we ever refuse reality? Here we do often. Is life ambiguous? Of course. Do we do wrong by forcing someone to fight beyond what is realistic? What is realistic? Do we inflict suffering on others and ourselves?
:- Doug.
Curious resonance:
Curious resonance: be curious about others, speak your center to mine, let us see what pulsates common among us.
:- Doug.
What’s that make of you?
The trees put forth their many fingers to catch all they can of God flowing past. Yet they too are of God. God catching God. What’s that make you?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1316–Settle, settle in
Footprints in the Windsm # 1316
Settle, settle in, be in the spirit, the flows, the swirls, the still crisp waters where beings large and small gather and drink.
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Getting their message by being of the same stuff
Animals communicate with their whole bodies: not meaning to give a message, they simply are, and the others get their message by being of the same stuff.
:- Doug.
God on a leash
We need to stop putting God on a leash. Or in a jar. Or in an away place/time.
:- Doug.
Beyond washed clean in blood
Instead of speaking of washed clean in the blood, or blood spilled for me, I see the freeing as coursing within me, that we all have this blood in us, we are all related, and what Christ did we can do, ought to do. It is how he lived, lived out his life, lived fully into his death that informs us, that shows us how to live: all in, for each other, giving our very best even when it hurts or people are against us or it takes our life. It takes our life.
:- Doug.
Your voice is larger
Your voice is larger
More people read you
Than you know
You have a duty to them
Say it true, say it boldly
:- Doug.
