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Silence speaks a language we cannot
but understand

:- Doug.

To be one means to be whole.

:- Doug.

Once in a while someone asks What is Heaven like? and quickly the question is put aside as infantile, or dabbling in what can never be known this side of death. Yet it can be a serious question. What’s a Heaven for? the poet Robert Browning more states than asks: it is for reaching beyond our grasp.

If the job here and now is healing the world, establishing G?d’s domain, what is the task beyond this world, when we all see we are one, when we see G?d face to face, when G?d’s domain is visible? What is our task there? Perhaps, catching glimpse of that, we will begin here and now. Perhaps we would see that we have begun here and now.

If we are G?d’s friends, what does it look like here and now—and in Heaven—for us to befriend G?d? G?d is alive, moving, meeting us, getting in our faces. So why would we expect G?d face to face to be different? In Heaven then, will G?d get in our faces, encourage us to be creative and compassionate as G?d is, ask us to do?

:- Doug.

Protestants shun questions about ultimate concerns. They cut short inquiry by saying Believe and you will be saved! Implied is Don’t ask me any more. That of course brings up the question, Saved for what? What is your ultimate concern?

Is your ultimate concern purely personal: that you will not be annihilated or tortured? Or is it for all of humanity (for God so loved the world)? And is it beyond the double negative (not torture), toward something positive, like growth and love and creativity?

:- Doug.

There are tales the silence tells….

:- Doug.

We are connected by conversations. The weave is key. We are not the strands of the weave, not the nodes or knots of the strands, but perhaps weavers.

Does the Weave weave the weavers, and do the weavers weave the Weave?

:- Doug.

What are we doing to make the world better? Even if we have a project to help people here, what are we doing to help those who are helping those over there?

:- Doug.

The other is unknown: that is the attraction.

:- Doug.

There perhaps are no ultimate resolutions, perhaps not even when we meet you face to face. Obviously, for I have, and still questions emerge.

How can we meet if there are answers? There would be no reason to meet. Meeting runs on questions and story and the promise of finding out mysteries. How does it come out? Where do we go from here?

We affect you. We can turn you. You listen, you engage, you meet. We can get in your face.

:- Doug.

The narrow ridge, we,
does not cut our path
but skips from one to other
holding hands, pulling, playing

:- Doug.

What will we make of a world
which is made of us?
What will we make of this world
if we knew it is up to us?

:- Doug.

Conversation does not give us the answer
Conversation gives us better questions

:- Doug.

G?d the living question
asking us

:- Doug.

We can live outside our culture
rendering our culture transparent
so as to see if we have eyes
how the world could be
weaving working for all

Nor naked nor shouting
nor eating locusts
but doing what’s wilder:
conversing, meeting
souls, ripping grey cloth

:- Doug.

So who is making things happen in this town?

:- Doug.

Do you know people like that in your community?

:- Doug.

What’s a truth you learned this week?

:- Doug.

What is the highest dream we can have for this world?

:- Doug.

What do you suppose is G*d’s dream for this world?

:- Doug.

You are cordially invited to engage our world.

Our work is hosting conversations to make our world work for all.

:- Doug.

The more we engage, the more we engage.

:- Doug.

Weave is love.

:- Doug.

Credo for today: I give my heart to G?d:

G?d is human. G?d is made up of humans. G?d is larger than any human. G?d is larger than humans. G?d is beyond noun and verb. G?d is not thing. G?d is action and more. G?d is weave. G?d is relation. G?d is between.

:- Doug.