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People are a generative field. People are part of a generative field, each a hologram of that field, but only full when entwined fully in that field. A koosh ball whose fingers reach out to touch, invite, caress and create.

This whole of which we are part we have called God. This whole is alive, intelligent, wanting all alive and wanting the best of all and for all and gathering (all aspects of what we call love). This whole is distributed but not diffuse, rather pointed and intent on meeting and encountering. This whole means to get personal, for therein are we generative and growing and alive.

:- Doug.

What if we saw the little old lady next door, the child in the play yard, and the person of a different color in the protest group as insightful persons, valuable to meet and valuable to get to meet—valuable because generative?

:- Doug.

Jesus is the only son of G*d because there is only one, and we are.

:- Doug.

G*d is the swirl of our being—breath, air, fluid, blood, flow, stars & all music.

:- Doug.

I am forever among humans, intimate—through them—with G*d.

:- Doug.

You are of this world
You are this world
You are necessary
Without you all that needs doing won’t get done
Can’t get done
This is true of all of us in here
We come alive in all the betweens of us
And especially in the amongs
And the among
All of us
Here?
Is divinity
Swirling divinity
Creating worlds
Divinity, you are of this world
…

:- Doug.

Flow is metaphor. What is the pure fact? That you move and respond and swirl and spiral and hug. That you are that moving and we are that moving too. Our movement is not ours alone but is of the whole, we are of you. Not part of you, for there are no separations: of you. Yet, we are agency, cause, too. We are set loose to see what we can do. This is not so incredible as it might seem for as of you we are agency. We generate. Together only makes sense too because it is the whole which holds the whole and the unfolding of the whole.

:- Doug.

We are able to change the way the unfolding happens—not in the precise way we choose to have it unfold, but we can influence it, we can do a little more than influence it—we can nudge and push and tug—and so what we do does change its course in our direction. So…if we get enough of us pulling and tugging and spitting and blowing, we might just make something unexpected.

:- Doug.

We are within you, G*d, in the swirl, in your face and you in ours. Our swirl touches and moves your swirl.

We are bathed in you. “Washed in the blood of the lamb,” only the lamb lives and the blood is life force which stains us as able. It is up to us to do what we are able.

:- Doug.

Do you have climate space?

:- Doug.

G*d is in the whole, and in the flow of the whole. We are not just in the flow, but flowing itself. We are current.

:- Doug.

A goal ends; a purpose follows through.

:- Doug.

People in need have something to give us. All people have something for others.

:- Doug.

The world is complex and to live well within it will take all of us together.

:- Doug.

The flow is there to contend with us.

:- Doug.

Allow the wind to blow around and through you. Then stand, and make footprints in the wind.

:- Doug.

We are expected to stand up to the roaring face of the wind, to contend with the forces of divinity, to wrestle not for peace but for our effort among the hundred goods.

:- Doug.

We have thought that G*d was within us. Now we can see.

The stream flows and will flow with or without us. But we can bend it. We are invited, expected to give our turn to the stream, to say that we were here and our effort mattered. We gave all that we had to give. We gave the best we had to give. The best is in gathering and multiplying.

:- Doug.

We are a divine force, activated togethering. We listen to hear; we wait; we stand in the face and invite something new, larger than us: good.

:- Doug.

We become most ourselves—a divine force—when we converse. It is an active-passive thing we do and are: we are both standing up to and allowing the streaming to flow through us. It is the stronger force, yet we bend it. And we bend it sometimes by hand and muscle, sometimes by inviting, sometimes by witnessing and waiting.

:- Doug.

Divine force flows and swirls, moves people and times, and we are most in communion with it meeting.

:- Doug.

Coming together in conversation can be done consciously with the purpose of bringing us in alignment with the whole.

:- Doug.

We bring the future forth only together.

:- Doug.