Archive for November, 2017

A prophet?

How is an elder a prophet?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 27th, 2017 | No Comments »

People who

People who have come together
(convened, in covenant)
can sing

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 27th, 2017 | No Comments »

Look. Discern.

Look. Discern. The power of fatigue, the structure of numbness, are about to shatter. Sacredness—ever surrounding us, upholding us—will come again to our notice, lovingkindness will be practiced again, from the heart of us.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 27th, 2017 | No Comments »

Before the elder speaks

Before the elder speaks, we know no possible newness, no future we’d want.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

Free of us

God is free. Free of us. Free of our pictures. Free to change.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

small pictures

What is a doxology that goes beyond small pictures of God?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

Learn

Learn something.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

Those empty bags

Dollars and numbers are just the current version of chasing after wealth and fame, those empty bags.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

One now

There is one world, one now.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

Coming together and

Reality is not primarily Dollars and numbers, although they are a part of reality. The primary portion is hidden by the drum beats and billboards and media images of those who want to collect Dollars and numbers. Real life is coming together and expanding, is loving and creating. Real life creates more love.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

Push out the boundaries

Push out the boundaries of our concepts of God, to see God as that thread, and all heart, and community, and more. God as more principle, more verb than object. For objects are controllable. God is lovable. Unpredictable.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

the thread

G is at least the thread that runs through us.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

Best futures startle

Best futures startle.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 26th, 2017 | No Comments »

Must redefine

Elders must redefine
move out the borders
set us to seeking fresh meaning

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 25th, 2017 | No Comments »

We kings

Sing the song
of spirit & play
spirit & play
it’s the one we kings
cannot answer
spirit & play
sing sing sing!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 25th, 2017 | No Comments »

Called by many names

There is something larger at stake, and it is called by many names. Let us use life. Life wants to emerge. Life wants community. Life wants to draw the circle larger.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 25th, 2017 | No Comments »

You, grandchildren

You, grandchildren
are sovereign
you get to choose
eating yourselves to death
or living life the vulnerable

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 25th, 2017 | No Comments »

Surely fatal

How surely fatal
all our culture calls life

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 25th, 2017 | No Comments »

of certitude and doubt

of certitude and doubt
doubt is the way of life
give us doubt!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 25th, 2017 | No Comments »

We are chained

The controlling culture, make no mistake, is not the act of those in control, it is our own creation, sustained by each of us every day. That makes it more powerful because so many add to it. Our protest would be to seven billion of us. Our grief is shared with as many. We are chained to each other. Amazing we can break these chains.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 25th, 2017 | No Comments »

Amazing announcement

The announcement is amazing precisely because of its audacity in the face of the controlling culture.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 25th, 2017 | No Comments »

Announcing a new beginning

Elders announce a new beginning
announce the new to victims
of the old ways

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on November 25th, 2017 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1740–You’re an elder at 30 when you endeavor

Footprints in the Windsm # 1740

You’re an elder at 30 when you endeavor
to decide who will raise your children
if you cannot & how

You’re an elder at 40 when you taste
adversity & choose not to let the bitter
go into your words

You’re an elder at 50 when you forgive
yourself for the fishing trips
you’ll never have with your buddy

You’re an elder at 60 when you bury
your parents and stand in the
withering winds of grief

You’re an elder at 70 when you give
your best self to your grandchildren
and silently pray they were hearing

You’re an elder at 80 when you see
you still have work to do and
gifts to give

Mostly you’re an elder when you give
your best for the good of
the generations

Elder is not an age
Elder is a state


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