Be practical: sing
Be practical
by all means
but make time to
sing
:- Doug.
Imitation is limitation
:- Doug.
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On not selling my time
Not so much my time I sell
but offer you a companion
walking alongside
with
:- Doug.
this is your With
It’s not the greatness of our acts
It’s not the love you hold while doing
It’s the love with which
Of that other realm the coin
This With
Yet if you are given
to speak to
to write upon
ten other hearts
or ten thousand
this is your
With
:- Doug.
Sleeping in
Starting work early in the day expresses our unexamined anxiety that there is not enough time, not enough of what we need to live. Conversely starting work in a more advanced part of the day says to our souls: there is enough, you are enough.
Sleeping in can be a spiritual practice.
:- Doug.
pouring out
In the work we do each day,
To the people around us,
We each pour out our lives
:- Doug.
as if
How’s this working for us
all our toiling & running about as if
there were such a thing as control?
:- Doug.
Where is the strong antagonist?
In the West we have one God
absolute, good, light, right, perfect
& no strong antagonist
on the side of wrong and dark and broken
could it be—the counterpart is depicted as—
us?
:- Doug.
Both easy and difficult to die so
Jesus died upon the cross to let me see I must die upon my cross for love’s sake—& that it is both easy and difficult to die so, uplifting & pain-filled, killing & fulfilling. Our biggest sins are to walk past our opportunities to love, & for the forgiveness of this & the calling to the surpassing of this, Jesus died.
:- Doug.
Bearing with one another
Bearing with one another
The burdens of our divine humanity
The elations of our falling shorts
:- Doug.
This is what
This
is life
This
is loving
This
is what the world
has to offer
& we
—whatever we do
wash floors
make love
sit in worship—
prime exemplars
:- Doug.
Stand in contrast to what is
Accept what is &
stand in contrast
to what is
Stand for
—your choice—
I know nothing about God
this not knowing can be
a contribution to right relation
I say to you Doug Germann
stand in contrast to what is
Stand; no need to speak
nor to argue; but this may confront
Stand in contrast
give us choices
:- Doug.
Setting the world to right spinning
What we do today, here, is setting the world to right spinning. We do in the minute tasks and large efforts what we can. Yes, the single monk or nun in the cell keeps the world centered on its axis. Yes, the mighty efforts of the reformer and the martyr keep the world turning in the right direction. Yes, our daily cleaning and caring and keeping our eyes on what matters are of this world-tending order as well. This is beyond despair and beyond hope: our whole-making small and large, in our moments and in our decades. We are momentarily whole-making.
:- Doug.
