Converse like we never have before and we risk
Converse like we never have before and we risk cutting to the root of our community, our family, our life.
:- Doug.
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Every word, every act, is an act of conversation, if
Every word, every act, is an act of conversation, if I so see it, if I so intend. And thus an act of ministry, this ministry.
:- Doug.
If you talk as you never have before….
If you talk as you never have before, you risk creating caring community.
:- Doug.
Caring conversation means a community that’s cooking.
Caring conversation means a community that’s cooking.
:- Doug.
To add dimension and depth to our work….
To add dimension or depth to our work we must seek out and report the contradiction. All is not rosy and the contrary and close and far contradictions (of our work the sister, the polite sister, and the evil sister) are part of the most real. There is a rich shadow side, well worth mining.
:- Doug.
The last robin in autumn…
What are we to do
with the things we do not see
but could?
The last robin in fall?
A hand seeking ours?
The space between us melting?
:- Doug.
It’s important that we talk/…
It’s important that we talk
Since in conversation
We think together
We feel together
We come together
:- Doug.
Love means conflict/…
Love means conflict
& having to say you’re sorry
irritating
as much as
all the rest
you imagined
seeking function in dysfunction
:- Doug.
What do you want for your children’s children’s children, for the world?
What do you want for your children’s children’s children, for the world?
:- Doug.
a standard for us to emulate
God is a standard for us to emulate. God is the best beyond which we cannot imagine. God’s standard is a dream for us: love, whole-giving love. When love gives all, love experiences all, has all.
:- Doug.
The difference between lots to do and doing something significant:
This is the difference between having lots to do and doing something significant, something worth pouring your life out for. This is the difference between normal family chatter and meaningful talk. It is the difference between “business after hours” cocktail talk and really conversing. This is why I say we have never talked like this: because we have not yet used up our last full measure of ourselves. Living our deepest and fullest means getting outside our own skin, doing something for beyond your little self. Are we living our deepest and fullest?
So it is that we must love others till they live their deepest and fullest.
So it is that we discover our fullest and deepest lives are in living larger than ourselves.
We do not do this then to prove a point, nor to win others over: we do this because we love.
:- Doug.
You’re getting older: are you getting more used up?
You’re getting older: are you getting more used up?
:- Doug.
Love them till they live their deepest and fullest—and then you see you are too.
Love them till they live their deepest and fullest—and then you see you are too.
:- Doug.
Speak of whole-making
Meet. Speak of what has meaning, speak of whole-making. Find out what is going on—elicit current stories, and tell some of my own. Seek especially stories of gathering.
:- Doug.
Efficiency in our inviting lies in two directions:
Efficiency in our inviting enterprise lies in two directions: always be inviting (if simply to get good at many ways to invite); especially seek out those who have a reason to gather people.
:- Doug.
This has to do with doing:
It has to do with doing: Doing something larger than one little life.
:- Doug.
It is hard for me to get out there and get active
This is a hard thing to do. It is hard for me to get out there and get active. If it is hard for me, it is hard for others. Yet here is life: in meeting.
:- Doug.
