“Power and grace” in these people:
“Power and grace” are words that apply to the people around you.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Lively and life-affirming conversations
These conversations turning about end of life caring are lively and life-affirming; these conversations are fun when you get them going; the essence of courage is to take a breath and ask people to converse; the essence of conversation, these conversations, is love.
:- Doug.
converse for one another
Give up self, self-surrender: We have this conversation not so much with one another as for one another.
:- Doug.
Notice anything that does not fit?
The way we learn from book or professor is to observe how this picture fits with our own life experience. Learning is noticing—what we have already seen, perhaps in a new light—or what is new to our eyes. Can we notice anything that does not fit?
:- Doug.
Our living becomes opening
Since our praying is opening
Since our meeting is opening
Our living becomes opening
:- Doug.
so much to explore
G*d is new
ever new to me
so much to explore
so much to meet
so much creating
:- Doug.
Some assembly required
To enjoy all features
of the gift of life
we need to do some assembly
:- Doug.
Praying is opening ourselves
Praying is opening ourselves to the divine. In the garden he opened with “Not my will, but yours.”
:- Doug.
Measured only by this measure
Half or full?
Infinities
are measured only
by the measure of
love
—how much of yourself
will you give?
:- Doug.
Setting a word into motion
Setting a word into motion, even if the other or others say nothing audible in response, make no visible motion, advances the work of the whole and can rightly be called conversation, for here a person hears his or her expression and sees where it is weak and strong and the way it yet has to travel. No less so the writer and his or her book advances us.
:- Doug.
Someone who invites me
God is someone who invites me
To see larger
To see other people
To see through the eyes of other people
To hear through their ears
To see other worlds
To see beyond one truth
& one way of seeing
To see beyond one reality
& one way of being
To see the world of inviting
To see the world of love
:- Doug.
Maybe the question is Who are we?
Maybe the question is Who are we? Especially: Who are we in relation? For language which tries to understand God and Jesus tends to run quickly toward the magical, the magickal, the neverland. We must remember that somehow reality has to fit together. So how do we fit together; and is it here we can find God?
If we are simply animal, we eat and are eaten: that is that. But if we are more, it is because we connect outside our skins. This very relation pulls us up, gives us our inklings of divinity. We have not yet seen or defined God for the simple reason that we are inventing God as we go. We live inside our notions of God. But more than that, as we find each other, as we touch and are touched, here is God anew. Was God there all along for our discovery? How can we know? The old word might serve us well here: invent; invent as in discover something pre-existing; invent as in create something new.
:- Doug.
None of us is “simply” anything
Was Jesus simply an exemplar of the human being? He in fact kept calling himself that in his “son of man.” I quarrel with the word simply. None of us is simply anything. We are each individuals, sons and daughters of God, each irreplaceable and different, yet all of a whole. Each puzzle piece is different from all others, but only whole in the whole. Each branch and twig and leaf has a special place, gains its wholeness in the whole.
Yet Jesus was human, one of us.
God is one of us.
Of us, one. And more. And.
:- Doug.
Heroes and heroines of our age?
What will it take for us to become the heroes and heroines of our age?
Does being heroic require grand acts? No, simply ordinary everyday acts of whatever size in a large-sighted frame of mind and heart: what really matters? Who are we and what order of human realm do we want to rear?
:- Doug.
Divinity in the bosom of humanity
It was Jesus’ life and love that revealed to us divinity in the bosom of humanity. What shows us our upward possibilities is of God. There was something holy going on here and so we have the right to call this one “Son of God.”
:- Doug.
The way some people call themselves Christians….
The way some people call themselves Christian sets up a distinction between us and them. This is distinctly un-Christian. We are called to love all.
:- Doug.
Steeping us
Steeping us
The way
We’re on
Our community
Neither above
Nor beside
With, moving
All this
Spirit is
:- Doug.
