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My work is to engage people today in work that matters for us.

:- Doug.

Forms and rituals are useful to us, to bring us into the presence through the door of “As if.” There are other doors: other people, nature, days, stars, birds, frustrations.

:- Doug.

In Meeting, you don’t speak until spoken through.

:- Doug.

What if Genesis 1 were a liturgy of the week for us? The first day of the week we create light: what is the role of light and dark in our lives, in our daily rounds? The second day we create water and skies in our lives: how do things flow, what do the waters cover, to what do they give birth, when do we feel like we are being drowned, from what do we see ourselves emerging, what gives us breath, what do we see in the skies? The fifth day—Friday?—we bring forth creepy, crawly things upon the land and birds in the air: what are those in our lives and how do we respond, do we reject and run away and put away, do we love and welcome and embrace all of us, do we wish we could fly? And so it goes with all the days until we rest: do we rest and ponder what we have created, do we play, do we work, and if we work do we get to feeling good about it?

:- Doug.

I experience G*d as a living, loving, active ground of all.

:- Doug.

Invite without ceasing.

:- Doug.

From single cell
To Behemoth
Life! Instances of Life!
Outcroppings of Life!
Underneath it all
—one Life!

:- Doug.

We are people who are up to something.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 869

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

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This is not a lawyer debate where we have to answer each other point for point; instead, it is conversation where we weave threads of a new now, and loose threads are woven somewhere else. Everything is used as best it is used.

:- Doug.

I don’t care whether you agree with me or not; I care that we work together to create a world that works for all, and for which all who care work. I care that we work together for a better now. I care that we work together. We have never done that, never had to do that, before.

This is my chance, my opportunity, on which I will work. I have no idea what will come out, but I will work toward it and toward us.

That is really what it is about for me—working toward us, for in the us is the community of G*d. We experience and create life, love and being.

:- Doug.

The language of worship, adoration, confession can be heard as joy, appreciation, living, loving, and confession to self and one another. These are legitimate—after all, they are part of the experience of being human which wells up in us, and so cannot be denied—the issue is what sort of G*d we express them to, and how large a G*d: one conceived in human image, or one beyond the image of a human?

:- Doug.

The present is waiting to be created
The presence is waiting to be created

:- Doug.

People want to be invited, not notified.

:- Doug.

We need community disorganizing because we need kitchen table and ordinary people democracy.

:- Doug.

Why do we not pay people well to enhance life, love and being, but pay them handsomely to take these from others? What we dearly want we avoid, what we do not wish, we work toward with all our energy and resources.

:- Doug.

The voice of Spirit speaks; the people hear.

:- Doug.