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Many people have the license plates “In God we trust”—because you sure can’t trust their driving!
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
We are in charge
The Way of our Conversation is not a given, but a discovery, a working toward. Not only diversity; not only richness of intricacy; not only looking for our creativity; we need also that our conversations be causes, that we become causes. We need to somehow figure out how we can be causes of the world we have and the world we want. We need to see that we are in charge.
:- Doug.
Merely a collection of individuals?
What’s new about this is that we did not think there was any value in together, we thought of it as merely a collection of individuals; we have seldom thought of a group as having its own. Its own existence, its own spirit, its own direction.
:- Doug.
More of that kind?
Sometimes parts of our conversation have gone deeper and have been more inclusive; the question is can we invent ways to get more of that kind?
:- Doug.
Higher thinking
Listen—work at listening for—intricacies, nuances, richness. Listen, hear and ponder. Allow our higher thinking out.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 871
Footprints in the Windsm # 871
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Appeal higher
Appeal higher.
The higher court is that in people which says there is more, there is the aspirational. We can love and live and do-be-do. We can be part of a larger life, the human community, the universe of life. People want to live there and not in the mud. We have the mud and need to live there, too. But this is sure: if we do not muck around in the mud we do not have life; and if we do not touch the more, we are not human. That life is mere animal and passes the way of all dust, profiting none.
We need no perfectly aligning of deck chairs. We need to ask where the ship is going. We need to ask if there is more to be seen here than the little of the ice berg above the water. We need question and story and dream as well as instruments and cutting apart and percussing at each other. We need to pray and pass out the shovels.
:- Doug.
Do we need people who need, too?
People need to—
Be heard
Contribute
Create
Be part of the larger whole
What happens when—
Our population is compressed?
Our interconnections become intricate?
Our world grows complex?
Do we need people who need, too?
Do we need—
More voices?
More mind?
More points of seeing?
More inventing and fitting?
More—us?
:- Doug.
What are the gifts of street people?
What are the gifts of street people?
What are the resources of poor people?
There are none
There are only the gifts of people
There are only the resources of people
:- Doug.
Explaining, arguing, selling
Explaining, arguing, selling are not where my time is well spent; it is better spent on starting who can start. Start dancing and singing!
:- Doug.
A small group can change our now
A small group can change our now. It is important that we cause our world. It is important that we work on the now: hope is now, and born of action. Small groups are where everything starts.
:- Doug.
Necessarily futurity
Necessarily
Futurity
Demands of you and me
—This Now—the
Impossibility
:- Doug.
Ever makes new nows
G*d’s work is ever to make new nows, giving them to all without price. You are invited: take hold.
:- Doug.
I hold this possibility for South Bend
I hold this possibility for South Bend: A small group can change our now.
:- Doug.
That our lives may live
Conversation is intercourse which can lead to pregnancy and birth of new life. Conversation is necessary that our lives may live.
:- Doug.
Conversation is required
Conversation is required: We cannot be family or community or nation without conversation. If we do not truly meet, the shells of these things exist, but the reality of them has long since departed.
Conversation is required of us if we are to have a now distinct from the past.
Conversation is required of us if we are to live life (cf Isa 55:3).
:- Doug.
