What are you doing to reach out?
What makes your life fresh and exciting? What are you doing to reach out?
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
in the face of already
Remain in silence a little longer,
Listen for the open
hunger-filling heart
in front of you
This one, like you
is enough
If then you must,
speak from
commonality, shared
nurture, life
already present,
sufficient.
:- Doug.
life already present
Remain in silence a little longer,
Listen for the open
hunger-filling heart
in front of you
This one, like you
is enough
If then you must,
speak from
commonality, shared
nurture, life
already present,
sufficient.
:- Doug.
same thing
You might not think persons are born in conversation, but in conversation we see ourselves afresh—and that amounts to the same thing.
:- Doug.
Meetings are a waste of time
Meetings are a waste of time, but meeting is the center of the universe.
:- Doug.
A dreamer
Am I comfortable being a dreamer? That is who I am. I see bigger things and dare to dream they might be done; I dare to ask people to work on them.
:- Doug.
feel good
It makes a difference to the world when you feel good about the work you do, the grandchildren you raise, how you use your money.
:- Doug.
Your dream be dreamed
We too often see “Thy will be done” in Garden of Gethsemane terms: something terrible is about to happen to me, but if it is what you want, sigh, I will submit. Instead, remember the promise, “I know the plans I have for you, plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” That is the true story of Gethsemane: for behind the fear was a glorious gift never imagined. So we need to remember the true hearing of this prayer will be more like “Your dream be dreamed among us.”
:- Doug.
Church is no thing
The church is not a noun, it is a verb. It consists in the actions it takes in the world, the flow it keeps flowing. It is not about bricks and boards. It is not about anyone’s power. It is not about protecting us saints from them sinners. It is rather about loving the world as much as G-d loved the world. It is about getting busy.
:- Doug.
Money: noun or verb?
Is money a noun or a verb? The better, more fruitful way of thinking of it is as verb. It opens new avenues of thought. Money is a flow, a verb that you use to do things with, not something that you primarily store up. Its true value is in movement, not in standing in place. There is no value to a Dollar bill, there is no value to a hoard of gold, only what can be done with it, or what it does to us.
:- Doug.
Making a difference with what we already have
Let us make a difference with what we already have, with whomever we already find ourselves.
:- Doug.
What you’re here for
People do have resources. These exist most often between people. Resources are arced in these betweens. Putting people together puts them to work. Putting them together to simply be an audience does not generate action; they must be involved. Once both head and heart are entwined in the need or opportunity, things happen. That’s what we’re here for.
:- Doug.
hidden
People need to engage their own resources. Chief among these is the dynamic between persons. I have hidden some things in these sentences.
:- Doug.
Clearing in the woods
Conversation is a clearing in the woods. Here we have the light and the distance to see more clearly how things fit. We also see more clearly the thicket of complexity that grows in front of us. In this light we see possibility.
:- Doug.
Begin the Between
The answer to “How?” is I will try a few things with you. That is, the responsibility must be accepted by me, then acted upon with others. The answer is not out there, not in someone else to take the sweat away from us. The answer is in meeting, in the between. I begin. With you. Begin the Between.
:- Doug.
