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G*d is not apart from you
G*d is a part of you
G*d is not separate from you
but interwoven
So if you see G*d out there,
fixing things for you
making your life go this way or that,
be kind
Remember, G*d is not separate,
out there, foreign
But of your essence
here with you
intimate
Nor are you separate, apart
G*d’s shalom is cosmic

:- Doug.

Let us ask the For question—
What are you saving For?
What will you retire For?
What are you saved For?

:- Doug.

Come down to the dream.

:- Doug.

It is the greatest of works to promote imagination.

:- Doug.

Jesus did not die for our sins
Jesus died for people
Jesus died for people’s freedom
From guilt
Nor did Jesus die to be sacrifice for our sins
It was the other way around—Jesus died
To sacrifice his life that we sacrifice ours
Jesus never said “Your sins—will—
Be forgiven” he said “Your sins—are—
Forgiven” He showed us what a life
full lived looks like
G*d did not demand a ransom to save our hides
—What kind of god do you believe in?—
The life full lived was to prove we
Can live full

:- Doug.

Life asks attention
Moves
Smells
Noises
Embraces
Touches
Tastes
Gives attention
Asks attention

:- Doug.

A preacher in his chambers entertains
Sin and her evil sister, Guilt
Sin does he care little for
Guilt he does with eyes adore
On Sin they close the boudoir door
To bring forth those things that G*d abhors
Chains & Fetters—his congregation’s slavers

:- Doug.

Our visionary work says to each, You too are visionary!

:- Doug.

Weave me! Make me part of the weave, integral. Bend me, twist me, knot me! If I break I am still whole! I live for ever!

:- Doug.

Our society is based upon fear of its people. Leaders of governments fear the “chaos” of people actually talking with each other—they may take control of their community! So limited access is the rule. Representative democracy is limited democracy.

How do we get beyond this? What about people who will vote their fears, will not open their vulnerability and truly meet? The answer has to come from the people, because the people is all we are, all we will ever have. That is to say, let’s work out that tough question and all others we may have in the only way that works: together. I will not win; you will not win: we will both be changed. There is a way.

:- Doug.

You own the world!
I own the world!
We can make it better!

:- Doug.

War and Judging are the same thing.

:- Doug.

Woe, woe upon us
our soul is dying within us
we are killing it. Grief!
killing our soul with our incessant judging
excluding hating warring pushing away
failing to meet singing songs of rape
pushing our children! and ourselves
for accomplishment, as if life were contest
and someone might get ahead of us to the grave
We can choose to live embrace meet converse
include hear speak work love
make change

:- Doug.

You are in the apocalypse
the revelation the uncovering
the unfolding
and you are fighting it!

:- Doug.

“I shall put my bow in the Heavens”
and I ripped the grey cloths
out poured rainbows from the people!

:- Doug.

We are community disorganizers because ordinary people can take charge for the world.

:- Doug.

G*d is somebody with whom you share touches.

:- Doug.

The only thing
—the only thing!—
measurable
is less than the whole

:- Doug.

Who cares? Who cares about the immigrants? Who cares about the imagination? Who cares about the children? Who cares about this injured young man? Who cares? Gather these.

:- Doug.

What in the world do you want to change? How can we get more engaged in this important work?

:- Doug.

You are G*d and you have the Queendom all among you and you among it.

:- Doug.

What happens in some conversations is a respiration: We have a deep conversation which plants seeds deep in us; we go about our day, and suddenly a sprout or even a flower!; then we take the green or scented being back to conversation and plant more seeds in us, in others, in betweens, and on the circle rolls. It is not individuals, nor meetings, but intertwined.

:- Doug.

What good is vision? It helps us work toward what matters, toward change that brings about the wholing of the world. It brings justice and being heard to every voice. It makes a world that works for all.

This will ever be a problem to address, one we can never solve, since conflict leads to transformation leads to new conflicts to address, new deaths and resurrections.

:- Doug.