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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 720

It is the job of all of us who see what’s going on to aid the conscious evolution.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 719

G*d hears you
the universe knows you are here
the world wants you

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 718

It is work to listen out another. The hearer has a job: communication is not just the work of the person who has the message to get out; it is the job of the other person to work with them to figure out—fill out—the whole of the message. Sometimes we struggle to find words and even concepts. Sometimes we are not skilled in speaking our hearts. It is incumbent on both hearers and speaker to work until the message is complete and lands. We cannot assume that the other person has said fully and precisely what that person has to convey. It is as if there were a recalcitrant calf we needed to lead to the field; one of us pushes, one pulls, another may try to entice with some sweet food: none of us possesses the message; all of us are possessed of the message; each of us has the responsibility to bring it onto the field where it can enjoy full play with us:

We give the gift
beyond listening attentively
we unfold the words, silences,
stumbles, what is not said
to help each other be
fully heard.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 717

People want to connect. People want to contribute. People want to do the larger good. Work here.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 716

Space being the best gift
—rich, fertile space—
let us give space to G*d—

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 715

However G*d happens is the only.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 714

What does conscious evolution lead to? Since we are all part of the one, group work is explicate, unfolded, a central part. Our little open space, any open space, shows us 1. there is a larger world 2. we affect it. We did cause a swirl, a stirring. Something shifted in the world, in us.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 713

Sometimes we are best served to think upside out.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 712

It does not matter if
we become lost
Every one loses
the
way because there is no
one
way The young mother
stumbles, drops her baby
a man and a woman
no longer strangers
hurry to clean up her blood
and get her to her feet
while
she soothes her infant
and recalls
where
she was going and
why
The thread
we see looking back
The thread is of
wholeness
We are
always already home

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 711

This morning
no book reading
instead reading G*d

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 710

When I was a speaker I was told to
let the important word land
for a beat
before I speak again
and keep my eyes with one person

now hearing is my life
and still the principle is true
let the important word land
in me
for a beat
before I speak
or think
and keep my eyes with one person

perhaps if I will
stop to not think
stop to hear the echoes of the echoes
of the other’s voice
let the other’s tones and rhythms savor me
then the real will be heard
and we will meet

beyond meeting there is no more

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 709

Each time you get that little glimpse that you are seeing something clearly, honor that insight. Write it down. Start a conversation about it.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 708

Heart is the heart of dialogue
at the heart of heart is ear
and hear and art
at the heart of all that is a
a single indivisible one

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 707

My bathroom clock is about
Five minutes behind
And upside-down
The one in the dining room chimes about
Five minutes ahead
I live in that space
Between the clocks

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 706

Any morning you can see and hear
and touch and be touched
is a good morning.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 705

Why do we not see the bigger pictures? Why do we not hear the conversations that want to happen? We need to listen to the subtle voices. We need perhaps to turn our ear to the sounds that are there with us. We need to turn our ears to the larger things. We live in the conversations that want to happen, and we are too busy.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 704

We need fewer transactions, more intercourse.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 703

We offer each other what we can
We stretch a little—we must
Life comes at us, we are buffeted
Now and then we remember we are life.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 702

We are not damaged goods, dented in our fall from the shelf, but incomplete, designed to be better than perfect. We are asked to improve the world. We are asked to help each other grow ever and always more complete.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 701

We can get creativity
and activity (but that’s not doing)
In good time we can get the quiet signal
the long insight

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 700

The day ahead
can be
a challenge
to be met
with all your force and ingenuity;
or a
gift,
a mystery to be explored,
a precious child to be set free
to be full, complete, adult:
Choose.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 699

Whether we see our task as making a living or something else, we are making a life. Day by moment. What we do is what we grow. We may not see it whole often, yet there it is, little glimpses behind the bushes that line the yard.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 698

All the world’s a conversation
and we the meeters and the met
and we the seeking to be met and still unmet

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