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This bed, this bird, this red wheel barrow
Too is a result of G
And if result then carrier
For into each
the heart of G rubs off

:- Doug.

Can a G who is distributed mean me, call each of the hairs on my head by name? Why not? Any limitation stems from a limitation on our imagination.

:- Doug.

My thoughts this morning of a cosmic scale are around the personal, I-mean-you God. Does G get personal? I want to say Yes, but I realize that those in the East would probably say No. So I want to keep open to You.

The first picture we have is of a G that/who is congealed into one place-time. A lump. Yet we know this does not fit well, for we have concepts of omni presence and the like.

The second picture is of us being spread all about.

The third is of betweens multiplying exponentially as we multiply mathematically.

The fourth is of quantum betweens, non existent, or at least not passed through.

So then I have these newer pictures that come to me: At the Gift conference, people listening to me respectfully, taking me in, hearing me. At a lawyers conference, the whole group working to solve a client problem for me, with me.

Then I realize that G does not need to be out there, but can be built in to each of us. Not so much are we hard-wired to G, but that G is in our sinews, and when we are squeeze and even touched, we exude G. Perhaps we are even G in the sense that together we make up G, or at least we embody into the world G.

So in this way, G is personal to each of us in that G comes from within us and knows us and means us. Again, G means us when another person speaks our name.

:- Doug.

G is a wheel: sometimes closer to my eyes is gathering, sometimes freeing, sometimes inviting. We too can be a wheel with each other.

:- Doug.

Friend: Gathering, Freeing, Inviting Now.

:- Doug.

We gather our human family to care for one another.

:- Doug.

My suit jacket is a wearable purse.

:- Doug.

Use your courage, use your heart: Last night I took a support group a little deeper into the work of dying. They allowed me to take them there, they had some tears.

People are willing to go deeper if I am willing to honor that among them.

That is profound, but in a way not news: I have not engaged the courage to honor the transcendent among people. What I honor, others honor. Fear not, for people are of good will. It is not outside any of us: it is among all of us.

:- Doug.

What is the meaning of person as person? If we are an onion, when we peel down, who are we? Maybe we are the intersection of all others in our life. A meeting of fields. Einstein: All there is is field. Maybe. What else might we be? A center of doing and being, of activity and energy. A gathering of people we knew and what we have done. An embrace. A field of love. Love. A focus of love in and love out. Arms of divinity.

:- Doug.

Some say death is an individual thing. I think otherwise—we cannot extirpate person from his or her ground. Family is a flexible idea, including all who profoundly touch and are touched by the person.

:- Doug.

Death we do not know; about dying there is much to know.

:- Doug.

A profound reason I invite folks to hear each other about approaching death is the opportunity that death gives us all to grow. I don’t want people robbed of their completion.

:- Doug.

The day comes & the day goes
Is it a conduit for my life
Or am I conduit for the day?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1346

When I water my garden, I am moving water around: from too deep for the plants to benefit, to the top where it percolates through their roots and back again. Flowing and returning like love.

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Are you yet growing—at your age?

:- Doug.

Dying can have vim—value, importance, and meaning.

:- Doug.

Burden is a way of saying “Poor, poor me,” of asking for help to see one’s worth now. A person who seeks help still has worth, is still a person.

:- Doug.

I don’t understand what “being a burden” means. Please tell me what you imagine it means. What you have seen, felt, and heard?

:- Doug.

Dying and suffering are never
Entirely personal
Those who love also suffer and die

:- Doug.

Surrender to a Christian is
Non attachment to a Buddhist
Can we see? Can we see?

:- Doug.

All God’s children gotta eat
All God’s children gotta be free
All God’s children gotta love
All God’s children got legs or wings or fins or the like
All God’s children got a heart

:- Doug.

Look at our clothes, look at our ads with people holding hands and families with babies , look at how we reach out to victims of disaster—mirrors all, mirrors of who we are and what we value. Our clothes are not hobnail boots but soft fabrics and casual; our ads show family and gathering values; our rushing to help reveals our heart connections with all. These—and not politics of hate and exclusion—mark who we are. Those who pull apart have to be loud because they have no natural affinity with kind folks and open hands.

:- Doug.

When preparing our invitation, we do well to remember the sacred nature of our work: invitation is related to call.

:- Doug.