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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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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1074

Conversation is when we take the vastness inside you and inside me and multiply them together.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1073

Paint incomplete pictures
Vigorously work to not know
See? Others are necessary
Invite, invite, invite!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1072

You’re all my relation.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1071

Confront the listless youth on the street corner with his or her freedom to create a new world: see what is possible, confront the responsibility for making it something good. For if the response to freedom is violence and destruction, what have you created? The real question for the desire to destroy is What is on the other side? Of course that interchange is going to stir up anger and dejection. That is part of the freedom and part of the awful responsibility—Do you want that? Do you choose that? What do we want to create?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1070

How should we care for our fragile elderly? Tenderly, of course. Lovingly. Provide a level of care higher than nursing homes—someone to wipe their brow, help them clean up and not feel shame if their bowels or limbs or minds are no longer in their control. Watch to see that they are not abused, and instead treated well. Not for reasons of wealth or lack of it, but for reasons of the dignity and importance of life.

But what is the meeting place of finances and the way we care? Some things take money. Some things take care. Some people get confused and think that money can replace care.

One answer might be to remove money from the equation. But turning it over to the financial side of the community, whether the government or private insurers, subjects these our most frail to the economy’s ups and downs. We must open up our hearts and our tenderness first. Then the money will work as needed. The first level of response needs to be caring for life.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1068

What confronts us is the need to jump into conversation head, heart and backside.

And yet, and yet, this is no choice, nor effort; it is release: like a two-year-old throwing himself onto a giggling pile of his siblings.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1067

Sensing my coming ripeness
Nearing ready
I offer myself
To bare feet and press
Soon to be juice
Then wine
Then laughter
Or tears

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1066

In giving you are
wear bright colors

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