Archive for June, 2013

You are invited to be part of this all

You are invited to be part of this all.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 30th, 2013 | No Comments »

You are already here

You are already here.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 30th, 2013 | No Comments »

Seeing into existence

Since this is one whole, this uni-verse, anything we do makes it new, creates possibilities, and each being can see into existence any reality.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 30th, 2013 | No Comments »

Invite, invite to whole

Invite, invite to whole
welcome, welcome
this is good

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 30th, 2013 | No Comments »

Softly, gently

Softly, gently
flows the stream
& we are love, as we live

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 30th, 2013 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1339–choosing to gather in their sparks

Footprints in the Windsm # 1339

the meeting of highways
of life, love & meaning,
of daughters & sons
wives & husbands
mothers & fathers
of inviting & freeing & gathering
this conversation is
—it only takes a little seeing
of who is there in front of you
choosing
to gather in their sparks and yours


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 29th, 2013 | No Comments »

All is working as it should

All is working as it should.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2013 | No Comments »

What direction have you chosen?

What direction have you chosen?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2013 | No Comments »

Change allows me to maneuver

Change is good: it allows me to maneuver; I can use it to fit what’s happening around me.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2013 | No Comments »

Approach with happiness

Approach with happiness.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 29th, 2013 | No Comments »

We added to you

Open Space opens us to a new way of seeing and being our world
Circles as well as straight lines
Equality added back to hierarchy
Creativity added to authority
Humanity and command and control
Distributed leadership as well as upstairs
We added to you
Resources found among resources lacking

With OS we have
Many hands on multifaceted challenges
Many minds to work out entangled knots
Many hearts to touch

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

A couple faces Alzheimer’s: enjoying

I was thinking of a particular couple and one has Alzheimer’s. They probably sometimes think their future is bleak. Then this came to me:

Don’t enjoy the future: enjoy the present.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

We owe our communities, our families

This is something we owe our communities, our families: to have this end of life conversation, to converse. For here is caring, here is loving, here is coming together.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

Resources? A well-spring

Required for any task, ever in us flowing
Hearts and minds
Resources? A well-spring have we!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

Saying the world is one, we mean

We say the world is one, God is one, and we mean complete, whole, rounded, full.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

sickly saccharine euphemism

“Asleep in Jesus:” that’s what the note said about our friend. To me this phrase is a sickly saccharine euphemism suggesting that the speaker cannot use the word died, perhaps cannot come to terms with his or her own mortality. I will die. You will die. Late or soon. Dead. Doornail. Avoiding the words does not hold death at bay. I do not know what the process will be when I meet it, even though I know some of the physical markers. More often for me to be “asleep in Jesus” means snoozing in the pew.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2013 | No Comments »

The credo: say more accurately

The credo: Children call God’s heart to conceive. So do pure people. Life is of God, holy, sacred. The key thing about this is the exercise of turning ourselves around so as not to put an image on God, not to anthropomorphize. Not so much “God is” nor even “Is God,” rather, “This is how we know the presencings and workings of God.” We want to say more accurately how we meet the holy and the sacred. God is in our face and behind and beneath us: pushing us on, cheering us on, holding us up, providing ground beneath our feet.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2013 | No Comments »

Say not all

Say not all. Hint. Invite.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2013 | No Comments »

Turn you around

Turn you around, look at your world in another direction, once. When the people chant “I believe” explore what you might see from the seat facing. “I believe that Heaven and Earth is God creating.”

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2013 | No Comments »

The whole of

G*d is what, in our lives, is whole.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2013 | No Comments »

hold it lightly

If you have to have a goal, hold it lightly. It might break. Or it might take you away from your life.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 27th, 2013 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1338–As the wind leans on your door

Footprints in the Windsm # 1338

Hear the sound of moaning as the wind leans on your door
And tell me,
Which is moaning—wind or door?


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on June 26th, 2013 | No Comments »

When we are inviting

In conversing, turning, we are being pleasant toward, we are entertaining and challenging each other’s heart and mind. So we are inviting heart and head to open. We are inviting open.

But we are saying more than open in “only invite.” We are saying do not sell. We are saying you are welcome here, safe. We are saying I want you along. Along for dancing, turning. We say If you do not feel or think this is your place, then you are under no obligation to come.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on June 25th, 2013 | No Comments »
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