The bigger job of Wills?
What is the bigger job of Wills, Estates, and Powers of Attorney, if not loving well?
:- Doug.
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A flowing, a flower!
God seems to me a flowing
more than a string-puller:
Flowing,
God flows,
A flower!
:- Doug.
Pointing to his chest he said
Pointing to his chest he said “Here,” then turning his palm up and moving it left to right “and there,” pausing… “is our life, our divinity…not to be held, but got to work.”
:- Doug.
We cannot cure death
We cannot cure death
Yet we act as though we could
Or as if we wished we could
Yet if we see death not as end
But as a chapter
We might write it well
Live it artfully
:- Doug.
Beyond head and heart knowing….
What we get from conversing moves beyond sterile head knowing and sometimes even beyond heart knowing. Here you experience the other.
:- Doug.
How do the mystic and the ordinary believer converse?
How do the mystic and the ordinary believer converse? Which language do they use, none being adequate?
:- Doug.
There is a reality that exists only between us.
There is a reality that exists only between us.
:- Doug.
Yes, you can record your point of arrival, but how did you get there?
Yes, you can record your point of arrival, but how did you get there?
:- Doug.
Recording the results….
Yes, there is an advantage to recording the results of your conversing. No, you cannot get these singular results without conversing. I could not have attained this result without conversing. The conversing can continue after we have left one another’s physical presence.
:- Doug.
Recording a conversation?
You cannot record a conversation and be done with it. It is not an intellectual exercise. It is a living thing, between. Remove one of the participants and no between. It is an engagement. It is verb.
:- Doug.
Then paddle
Do not think that G*d will rescue you from your refusal to put your paddle in the water! Your paddle is your hand, but also your head and your heart. Choosing is work. Figure it out. Don’t whine, sit there and choose. Then paddle.
:- Doug.
The larger softening
It is possible that we might be preserved for a particular work, or that the storm prods us to get busy, seeing the fragility of life. But I see G*d more as companion to stand by us, witness with us, call us to something higher, challenge us, dream with us. G*d let Jesus actually die. And suffer. Where were the legions of angels? In the hearts of those looking on, crying, suffering, mourning. Here was the bigger work, the larger softening. Softening is a larger work of G*d.
:- Doug.
We all always have work
We all always have work to do. What is that work? Often and mostly it is up to us: to see what needs doing, to choose, and to hop to it.
:- Doug.
Beyond death as failure?
How could we, today, here, work to change our cultural view from death as failure, to something wiser and more human?
:- Doug.
A pill for this/A pill for that/…
A pill for this
A pill for that
But no pill to
Keep us from
Getting fat!
:- Doug.
To our ear
To our ear, conversation sounds small and insubstantial, yet it is the very motion of our life. Togethering, meeting, has ever been and is our only way forward.
:- Doug.
Defining physician failure
There are physician practices who define failure as not having gotten patients on hospice in the last month of life. What’s good and not about that?
:- Doug.
Share
Love asks just one thing—
Share
For why were you given love
If not to share with others
Openly, widely, and inclusively?
:- Doug.
