We must respond
It is not the issue that this is new, that this is something we have not done. The issue is that we are presented with a new setting and we must respond: the best response is to see together what the best response is.
:- Doug.
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The great school of life never was
We gather all hearts. We are not here, in the great school of life, to learn to love; we are hear to create loving. The metaphor of the great school of life is in fact a way to keep us down and dependent.
:- Doug.
You are unfolding
Like a flower you are unfolding. The bud is not bad because it is imperfectly open. Today the rose knows more, sees farther, and so reaches farther beyond. Struggle not to open: you will on your day: and then you seed. Fuss not that you are not yet open; you are opening.
:- Doug.
My live question
How are we to invite people to love loving and inviting each other, to play together, to belong to each other? Have we ever? Is this a new thing?
:- Doug.
strangely built
The human animal is strangely built: often the remedy for cold feet is to hold hands.
:- Doug.
Invite people to do
Invite people to do
Life and wholeness:
Widen, Deepen
Interlace
Commit
Cause
:- Doug.
The way to bring anything to fruition
The way to bring anything to fruition is to gather 3 or 4 people who will do something. Repeat.
:- Doug.
change through small
I’m inviting people to change the world through small group conversation.
:- Doug.
Possibilities lie among persons
Possibilities lie among persons—nowhere else: not with experts, not with plans and goals, not with top down.
:- Doug.
The world is broken, yes
The world is broken, yes
And out beyond the shattering
The world—& we—are whole
:- Doug.
Today I had difficulty settling
Today I had difficulty settling
Other people too seemed
scattered
For here, for now,
This is where life is
rippling
:- Doug.
