Our moments serve our purpose
Letters and words serve the idea, not the other way around; so too our moments serve our purpose, whether chosen by default or purposely.
:- Doug.
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Holding the elusive
We might enjoy leaps of vision
Because they will allow us to think
We have caught hold of G*d’s hem
We do well to remember
‘Tis ephemeral our memory
Nor can our words hold the elusive
:- Doug.
Inside this embrace
In my experience
G*d is not above
But surrounding—
Between and among us—
We are inside this embrace
:- Doug.
To do the work we need to do
To do the work we need to do
There is more power among than between
There is more power between than within
There is more power within than we know
All the known power in the universe
Is potential in opening spaces among
:- Doug.
Care can be seen as something done to an It; Caring is how friends are kind to one another.
Care can be seen as something done to an It; Caring is how friends are kind to one another.
:- Doug.
Breathing and sleep: incomprehensible
Albert Schweitzer composed a lovely prayer while preschool age: “O, heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace.”
It raises for me the question of whether all things which have breath also sleep, and perhaps vice versa. If creatures from other planets did not have anything like respiration nor sleep, it would be a state utterly incomprehensible to us.
So too incomprehensible for us would be a species that not have communion with others of their kind.
These are all things so interwoven with us that we might rightly see them as defining us.
:- Doug.
Dreaming us
G*d is a dream!
Dreaming us
Dreaming whole
Dreaming ever larger
Unknown, unknowable
Inviting us here
To hear
:- Doug.
We all have the power to be kind
We all have the power to be kind. We all have the choice to be kind. It is mystery and wonder why we choose otherwise. Or maybe not: maybe there is a world of hurt and wounds that need healing.
We all have the power to come together in sacred encounters. It is a mystery and wonder why we choose otherwise. Or maybe not: maybe there is a world of fear of pain and wounds that needs making whole.
Sacred encounters. Mystery and wonder. And we have a role.
:- Doug.
government shut down
Still talk of a federal government shut down. How silly. These people in Congress are so set on their own ideologies that they are putting lives at stake. They are out of touch with reality.
:- Doug.
Kindness is the way to live
Kindness is the way to
Live
There is no other
Not chasing Dollars scuttling along
Just out of reach
Not long hours sweating
Toward recognition from others
Not getting accepted by
All the beautiful people
Only simply giving
Kindness to all is the way to
Live
:- Doug.
Is this the best we can do?
Call this world to turn to essence, to one. Is this the best we can do? Is this the best we are?
:- Doug.
Today’s sacred work is to…
Today’s sacred work is to move people outside their selves into one—the holy, the other.
This suggests we need to have reverence for the other, welcome the stranger, offer gracious hospitality to him or her.
But it also suggests the fearsome work of grieving and criticizing, opening us to reflection and turning.
:- Doug.
Wholly other and outside ourselves
G*d is the one
Who is wholly other (kaddosh)
Who call us to stand
outside ourselves (ekstasis)
To reverence
:- Doug.
Friend, I let down my shoulders in your presence.
Friend, I let down my shoulders in your presence.
:- Doug.
G*d is the space in which possibility is open
G*d is the space in which possibility is open.
Extend your picture that G*d is the field for all, the milieu. Here is largest conceivable potential, opening for even more than what already is.
:- Doug.
The space contains all the energy
The space opened between people
in any circle
contains all the energy
of the human-divine world
—all the honor, invitation, tears, laughter
:- Doug.
