about God I miss
Every time I talk and write
about God I miss
:- Doug.
Opening space for love to breathe
encourages snarling conflict
else how can we claim love?
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Opening space for love to breathe
Football has two goals
Football has two goals
a striving one against the other
a time out
from real life
:- Doug.
What did lack of compassion look like?
What did lack of compassion look like? What was its genesis? What did compassion look like? How will we know when we have received or done compassion?
:- Doug.
We are not as hefty
We are not as hefty
as our bodies
spirit, we morph
able to touch
inside, be
each other,
or entirely new
:- Doug.
I sat in Sunday meeting
I sat in Sunday meeting
seeking to hear you
speak to me
children played, ran
whispers
people coughed & spoke
your essence is
in here, in here
:- Doug.
What will motivate compassion?
What will motivate individuals to want to make an extra effort at compassion? What will motivate our organizations and institutions, hospitals, colleges and universities?
:- Doug.
Compassion when?
When do we need to first consider compassion for those approaching death? Do we stop too soon?
:- Doug.
Where compassion?
Where are our community’s nutrient places where compassion can first take root? Where in yourself are your senses of injustice, ethics, conscience and rage? Where in yourself can you find the strength and resolve to stand up for, to speak out for, those approaching death?
:- Doug.
Compassion acts
What are the compassionate practices already at work in this place? What is this place? What can it be? Can compassionate community mean something concrete to this place? What specific skills and attitudes lead to compassionate caring for those approaching death? What might we accomplish together that we wouldn’t separately? What can you do your next work day to bring more compassion to the dying? What might you personally do to bring this to the attention of your institution and associations? With whom can you team?
:- Doug.
Compassion how?
How might we show compassion for each of the persons we have identified? What might compassion look like, beyond what we are already doing? What are the barriers and things which slow our compassion, and how might we get beyond them? How might we make a system for compassion for those approaching death?
:- Doug.
For whom compassion?
For whom do we need to have compassion? The dying, their families, their nurses and doctors? Someone else? Who are our community’s exemplars of compassion? Who are the faces of compassion in our community? Whom should we invite to this conversation? Who would be likely sponsors and key persons? Who in this small group could invite them?
:- Doug.
Conversing is loving
Conversing is loving. The contrary of loving is ignoring, moving apart is itself loving. The wind ignores no one.
:- Doug.
Movement is primary
All three work together, depend upon the others, use the others: Yet I think movement is primary. Story is what conversing is doing and conversing is what moving is doing.
:- Doug.
the story that holds them all
Story comes through conversing. Story uses conversation to weave movement, indeed to weave itself. We meet: we make a story together. The story is us, and the story is you and the story is me. We create each of these stories, and the story that holds them all.
:- Doug.
Movement is Spirit
Movement is Spirit, the flow that wells up in conversing. Movement is, even before it moves things: indeed it moves the one, itself. Story then is a weaving of movement into meaning. Movement is the meaning of meaning. Moving is the essence of loving. Moving together, moving apart, moving alongside.
:- Doug.
