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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 889

If we’re going to color outside the lines, we need a full box of crayons.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 888

Playing with
Here is a game
You can play—
With another
Person or two—
Ask each
Other each line
See what
Comes up—
Sea?
Play
Hear
Now

Where is the wow
In your life?
In?
Out?
Hope
Whales
Skin
Stroll
Fear
Others
Trees
River
Cave
Pony
Circle
Puppy
Red
Sky
Love
Water
Baby
Storm
Creating
Us?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 887

In the woods, in conversation: listen for the subtle voices. The voice of the red among the green whispering to the bees, Here I am sweet, taste me! The voice of the small and delicate we daily walk by and do not see, breathing I am part of this world.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 886

Getting captivated by imagination is almost the whole of meeting.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 885

We are walking on the stomach of G*d: how then shall we walk?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 884

Approach with love.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 883

You’ve been in this kind of meeting. People saying ordinary things. Nothing much happening. —And then—something clicks. Maybe an offhand remark not noticed by the person speaking. Someone else picks up on it. You are sparked.

It’s not the people. It was the convergence of these people, this time, these thoughts. Something no one carried into the meeting carries you out.

You met.

Truly. And all those other “meetings” deserve the quotes, for they are pale by comparison.

What if we could meet this way on purpose?

We can. We just have to design our assemblings so we have opportunities to meet. Meet as humans with good heads…& good hearts. Meet to cause good.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 882

People have a wisdom and a love in them that is their essential. This wisdom is not fully expressed, and so they are not fully, until they have created and met the betweenings.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 881

We are throwing life away—in the cornstalks, in the landfills, in the food grains we are putting into ethanol—and in the way we label and shut down people. It is a matter of scale, not of essential difference: whether it is genocide or refusing to hear another. The latter is only less visible, more subtle, but it removes the good that could come from these people just as effectively.

So if we change our images to growing people and producing more with what we have and throw away, to generating more from less, to increasing what we do with what we have, to the opportunities in front of us, then we generate, then we live, then we love.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 880

What is the work that needs doing in the world?
Do that
What is the work you can do in the world?
Do that

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 879

What is life about? Ahh! It is simply loving—loving the incompleteness into wholeness. Loving toward wholeness, toward engagement, toward passion. Loving the developing, the trying, the effort. There is no do, only try (sorry, Yoda, you had it backwards).

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 878

It’s not just that we need to talk, but how we talk. We need first to hear all the voices. Of course that means to seek out those people we do not normally hear; it means also to give space to the voice of the meeting—that spirit of the group that arises with a third possibility.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 877

Our ears tie us together—what we hear of one another. Being heard I am woven with you.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 876

Invite without ceasing.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 875

My G*d cried in the garden
My G*d died
My G*d showed weakness
Vulnerability
Tears
Powerlessness
My G*d is near
People like this

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 874

People talking are people doing
People talking are taking responsibility
For our world

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 873

We can listen for G*d
In the very atmosphere
—Atmosphere beyond air’s molecules—
In which we move
If G*d is not a person
Our antennae alert
To being, living, loving
—Ours and mine and G*d’s—
Swirling, rustling so gently
By ears almost heard

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 872

People cause the world
You’re a people
Cause something

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 871

The distinction between problem solving and possibility is the distinction between fixing a broken bike and writing a symphony.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 870

What am I willing to do for which I will not be paid?

The real power in life comes not from a paycheck, but from giving beyond sacrifice.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 869

If I don’t choose I’ll just keep spinning.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 868

If we see wind and breath and spirit as understandings of one word we owe it to ourselves to keep all in mind as we apply that word. If we hear a calling to include unheard voices and marginalized peoples and another to meet our budgets, we owe it to ourselves and our grandchildren to work to include both in our response. We progress when we include more criteria for progress.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 867

I’m after bigger fish. I’m after life, that is, G*d.

This is news we can use, because when we find a hook for G*d, we have found a hook for persons, life and change.

If we are fishers of humans, we are fishers of G*d. When we hook each other, we have hooked G*d!

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