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Is Jesus about vision rather than salvation? Or salvation through vision? Words are not the vision: weak vessels to carry, often breaking. Recover the vision, recover what the man lived for. What was the vision? What did Jesus see?

:- Doug.

It is a misuse of our time to judge or condemn.

:- Doug.

Good evolves to good.

:- Doug

Live with imagination set free
This is the word of Jesus to thee
Meet the world with effort of mind
Here is the vision—the world I so loved
Remember my word to you from the first
Ways and Ways for you to bear fruit

:- Doug.

Jesus did not preach the disease
nor even the cure
instead living wholly
imagination set free
salt and earth working each other

:- Doug.

Caring for clients
Caring for community

:- Doug.

My practice is about caring for the fruitful life of my clients. A life is fruitful to the extent one’s flowers are opened, fragrance released, nectar drunk, pollen wind-tossed, seeds sent forth, not in the color nor fullness of outward fruit.

:- Doug.

Paint galaxies and galaxies with your eyes
Put on your G*d-sized clothing
Cure, make whole and fruitful our world

:- Doug.

Problems we face are not ultimates
Our visioning heals, our vision creates

:- Doug.

Grow into your G*d-sized being
Attune your eyes to paint the beauty

:- Doug.

We have turned our rugged individualism from its creative roots to selfhood, seeking not to give to the world but take. Let us turn to working together so we can re-learn the art of working alone.

:- Doug.

Our world flounders
—unconscious—
do we shake
do we nudge
to wake the beauty
of our world
—it is—us

Continually, urgently
paint us images
tell us stories
nudge and shake, yes
for there is beauty
there is love
—it is—us

What dread beauty?
what dread consciousness?
can we wake to
out of this
dreamless globe?
—it needs to be
—it is—us

:- Doug.

On behalf of the world, I am receiving people’s gifts.

:- Doug.

What is possible in the world?

:- Doug.

What could this world be?

:- Doug.

The genius of humankind and
The genus of humankind are both
Imagination

:- Doug.

Work and imagination are closely related.

:- Doug.

My work is on imagination
My work is on G*d!

:- Doug.

Results
are in changed—
physical things
hearts
imaginations
—The most lasting
is this last

:- Doug.

Let us ask each other “What do you see?”
Let us encourage vision.

:- Doug.

Existence = perception (E) X imagination (C) squared
E = MC^2

:- Doug.

The kernel of hearing
a person
—to be heard each—needs—
is receiving
his or her gifts

:- Doug.

Real work
conversation
meeting
imagining

:- Doug.