Living is
We say God is love
God is living
living is loving
:- Doug.
Beneath the river
earth holding it
beneath and within
Beneath our thoughts
living
beneath and within
flowing
:- Doug.
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Beneath the river
bigger than we know
God is bigger than we know
saying God is father, He, and God says
limits us
:- Doug.
Dying slowly
Today we have all these chronic diseases. So we die slowly, over weeks and months and years. We are perhaps too early in this phase to realize that dying is a human event we must work with and care about. So far all we have been doing is figuring out how to defer dying. But when it is here, we have not yet worked out a way to be present, to respond. We are just beginning to notice the suffering we are putting upon others and ourselves.
:- Doug.
A bunch of pretty pebbles
Life is not collecting
a bunch of pretty pebbles
of experiences
rather meeting what
and especially whom
enters our lives
sharing a morsel
:- Doug.
The quality of our dying?
We speak of quality of life but do we ask What is the quality of our dying?
:- Doug.
Why do we say God made us?
Why do we so often say
God made us?
—when we are
spirit of God’s spirit
blood of God’s blood
delight of God’s heart!
Rather we are
engendered, brought forth,
begotten of God
:- Doug.
A map can tell us how close
A map can tell us how close
we are to our destination
or how close we are to
our path
I don’t want to know
how close I am to my end
:- Doug.
Some river people some casino people
We are not some of us river people
& some casino people
we each have both in us
so daily we are given to
choose
:- Doug.
When we are not going anywhere
When we are not going anywhere
We are already here
There is a “be there” button, after all!
Inside our hearts
:- Doug.
Second only to pausing
The time is surely coming—and it is even now at hand—when we will use compassion and insight second in all we thing, say and do. Second only to pausing. The we will hear and act out of compassion and insight—helping before being asked, befriending the injured, lost, frail and young, smiling and sharing a kind word with all who see us.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1294–A cup of hot water in my hands
Footprints in the Windsm # 1294
I want to slow down. I want to absorb more of what life is around me. I just took a cup of hot water in my hands to warm my hands in this cold room, and decided that holding it for a minute rather than 10 seconds would provide more lasting warmth, and less interruption of the writing I was making. Yes I need to be less distracted and shattered in my mind and heart.
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Hopelessly entangled?
Hopelessly entangled
not even hopefully
our entanglement
can feed our despair
or hope
—or better
put us to work
making good knots:
hope-less-ly entangled?
:- Doug.
