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We are engaging the community of G*d in the communitying of G*d.

:- Doug.

G*d speaks against dominance; therefore G*d is not a dominator.

:- Doug.

We are renewed, but not by G*d’s puppet mastery, rather G*d’s energizing.

:- Doug.

Think the largest circle possible
Included are plants animals humans
Rocks dirt earth stars black holes
Pain suffering hate love despair numbness
Angels devils energy quarks ideas imagination
Larger still larger still
That circle is G*d

:- Doug.

My coeur work is community. This says My coeur work is making a better world, now. I invite people to create small groups to Converse and Work toward a better world, now. Converse in this setting means to design and create and more. This better world is discontinuous with the present one, the one of numb, the one of been there done that, the one of despair. This better world is of the Big New, of Promise.

:- Doug.

Much as New sells, we are scared of it. If you bring me a New improved product that will help my life in a little way—say remove a few more specks of dandruff—I will rush to buy it. But if your New will change my life in a major way (for the better or for ill, it makes no difference), I will run the other way! I do not even want to think about what it will do. Leave me alone. It does not matter why I fear it—the energy I will have to invest, the risk it will turn out badly, unpredictability—fear involves neither reason nor why. Only hope moves us toward the Big New. Hope also has neither reason nor why—uninvited, Hope overtakes us.

:- Doug.

We gather around the question How can we make the world better now? We hold the 6 conversations, but always from the standpoint of a larger world, an inclusive world perspective. Whom else can we invite? Who has bigger questions? How can we connect varying interests in conversation?

:- Doug.

My coeur work is community. The products of this are a better world and community. To community community. To engage the community of G*d. This is divine work.

:- Doug.

Why is this urgent to me? Because it is about a life fully lived, and any moment not fully lived will be difficult to redeem.

:- Doug.

G*d’s promises are to be with among between us.

:- Doug.

Engage the Community of G*d.

:- Doug.

If we want a better world, we have to be willing to give up this.

:- Doug.

There is something holy afoot, and it is us: together, among us, between us. The sparking, the turning, the coursing: this is where G*d lives, moves, and has being.

:- Doug.

Our main effort is community: Getting people churning and turning, roiling and boiling, dancing and composting: working and living the divine life.

:- Doug.

What griefs, hopes and questions arise
In turning toward one another?
Can hear there be
Life, world, divinity?

:- Doug.

Here there is life. Hear there is life.

:- Doug.

Without conversing, we are not—not hurting, not punished, just not.

:- Doug.

Our work is increasing the life in the community.

:- Doug.

Conversing is the stuff of life.

:- Doug.

The strings by which G*d holds us are the strings by which G*d is held by us. The strings by which we think to make G*d puppet master of our world are the same strings by which we seek to make G*d our puppet. We think the strings tie; strings are but strings and when strained, break.

:- Doug.

What is an effective symbol for the role of conversing among us? A death scene?

:- Doug.

What is the live question? That means, What is the question which will bring us to life? For in conversation there is life.

:- Doug.

When we are in a small group
We are in the presence of G*d
Shh! Hear first, Speak reverently;
Remove your shoes
This is holy ground

:- Doug.