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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1519

Our strength is in our weaknesses
so mine might be in lost words
forgetting what I planned to say
in midst not beyond

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The soul is real and direct, as much so as anything you can name.

:- Doug.

Epic the struggle
violate or console
cannibalize or create
kill or converse

:- Doug.

Assume people want the
world better, because they do

:- Doug.

Converse!
Dance this dance
This strange melody
And rhythm your only
Grab the hand offered you

:- Doug.

That bible is not more magic
than your words most ordinary
will not take you deeper
those daily closest you will remind you
your heart beats in rhythm holy

:- Doug.

The most important thing to understand
You must converse
With your closest people
About your most important things
Miss this you miss all

:- Doug.

Soft. This is what I want and want to be. Friendly. Part of the family. Hatred and its weaker sister competition send me away. I want to embrace. I want to find our tunnels between.

:- Doug.

It is a scary thing to meet—it turns us. There is and can be no solution, no formula, nothing to make it safe, nothing to allow us passage unscathed.

We have something we must bear into the world but without an ought. Freedom and destiny we meet full on. We meet this one life—peculiar to us—and no other. We are enjoined.

:- Doug.

We are not able to take anything explainable out of meeting, and cannot take anything in. All we can do is meet and that changes us.

:- Doug.

When Jesus said “Not my will” this brought him to his highest effect. We too, when we get beyond little ego, we reach toward deific, we can do larger. This is a lesson of Jesus’ life: not sacrifice: sacrifice of the ego.

This then points toward the difference between true sacrifice and the burned out candles of people who sacrifice to the point of wondering if they exist—and some to the point of giving guilt to those for whom they are sacrificing.

So we have giving up our little will, our little ego, to be wholly present, or at least wholly available to be wholly present.

:- Doug.