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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1096

What’s important is
not where we end but
that we begin
not whom we are but
whom we touch
not whom we touch but
that we reach

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1095

We are creating worlds, just by meeting. When we meet, we start something in motion. Things in motion reach out beyond ourselves, in space and in time. We start things larger than us, things that outlive us.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1094

I am healing the earth
I am bringing the divisions back together
I am companion of G*d
Creator of worlds
Did I hear one say I contain worlds!?
Well, so do I!
So do we all
But those who are blind society calls clear-seeing
& those who see, insane
Their words & their chains
We must for the children’s sake throw off
For our grandchildren’s sake
We are healing the earth
—or letting it suffer
We are bringing the divisions together
—or letting them scream at the children
(we’re all children)
We are companions of G*d
—or killers
We are creators of worlds
—or destroyers
We contain worlds!
What did we do with them, today?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1093

I never met a person I didn’t change. I never met a person who didn’t change me. Walk gently on holy ground.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1092

We get so tied up in the problems of our days that we do not know they are our good days, until they are long gone.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1091

There is a power in starting things. When we set things in motion they reach farther than our hands, last longer than our lives. Conversing starts things.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1090

To whom are we friends? This is a bigger question than it looks for it points the finger at our heart and asks, How big?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1089

Some clouds at the moment, hurrying by, late for the meeting, flying through the deep blue skies.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1088

What is asked of us
—of this grandeur living within?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1087

Hummingbirds and butterflies: why are the names of these creatures so long? Is it our unconscious desire to stay with them longer?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1086

Apply salve here, invite this one and that one, bring the world together.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1085

Today, I love.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1084

G*d did not hide
G*d became more visible
Spread out
Distributed
Visible everywhere
Speaking in voices
Of trees
Of women
Of birds
Of fishes
Of rain
Pouring wide
Touching everyone touching
Everyone touched
You
All you
Us
Climbing the ladder
Down

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1022

Many times I feel like a mere prawn on a chessboard.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1083

Life beats you up
No, life makes tender
Life softens
Life shows
You are part of all

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1082

When our resources are tottery and out of repair, this is precisely when we must make our mightiest efforts to make the world whole. It may be this is the only time we’ll ever get, & in any event this is the only time Now.

So, just when things are falling apart, people are screaming at one another, we are confused and don’t know the right direction—just now when we are under the most stress—this is when we must work on the world.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1081

The book is not yet closed
Chapters there are awaiting writing
Sentences, words, letters, jots
As the story is read, repeated: meaning!
Unseen in the footfalls, heard in their rhythm
Unknown in early chapters, ever a new leaf!
We take this pen in all our hands and write:
But who is the author?
No magician but larger than we can guess!
The book is ever open
For new writers & writing, characters, adventures
Always a new leaf, never finis
The book is not yet closed
Nor will it ever be
The Author is Loving
The book is ever open
We are invited to write

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1080

When someone comes
& tells you your own story
get down on your knees
get up & cook a meal for that one
listen
for this is
the
voice
& every story is your story

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1079

Serve the whole
Most of my life
Like you
I’ve served myself,
My family, my country,
My church
Now in these whispered words
I hear
Serve the whole
Serve the holy
These are bigger
Than any of us suspected

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1078

If we didn’t eat all those eggs
The world would be
Overrun by chickens!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1077

Engage your neighbor, and then you will love your neighbor.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1076

Little tree
with heart shaped leaves
bending the breeze

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1075

I see that G*d is flow. Everything is flow. We are flow. Everything affects the flow and motion of everything else. We can consciously affect this flow.

We is more a collective thing than individual.

We are most individuated with others. The group flow makes special each person, highlights and activates what is most extraordinary about him or her. Each contributes what no one else can, and only through the gathering, seething, generating whole.

The whole births something that none alone could or would even imagine. The parts in whole are more than the sum of the parts, and more than any other mathematical operation on the parts or the whole: we creates from whole and from nothing. This is the world as I see it.

What does this mean to us? 1. Join in. 2. Make an effort to make no effort: ponder, observe, wait. 3. Jump when called to jump. 4. Choose the good direction. 5. Plan less: the world depends less on you than you imagine. 6. Meet more: the world depends more on you than you imagine.

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