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You are the G-d with us: panentheos, Emmanuel. All things work together for good. You are the one in whom we live and move and have our being. You intervene not; rather you are here all along. We do not and cannot know all about you: we revel or at least are satisfied to muddle through, to not know.

:- Doug.

To my good friends–

We need to take responsibility for what we love. We need to work purposely and with commitment toward bringing that into being and prevalence. What is that? For me, it is working for an evolution of our species toward more conversation, more opening, more compassion, more justice. More of the stuff of G-d.

:- Doug.

To our good friends–

It occurred to me as I was reading a historian who wrote that we do not know what people thought 2000 or more years ago, that people 50 years from not might say the same thing about us, despite our many words and writings. What if they learn better ways to communicate, to think in depth, to carry their effect into the future? What might those ways be? Perhaps they are about direct contact: heart to heart. This might put a premium on the visual and kinesthetic: drawing and painting and dance. That might mean that MTV is the precursor of a more skilled critical thinking population. The MTV generation might be learning and teaching us how to think (or whatever we humans need to do) more deeply, more truly.

That raises the question: just what is important? What should we be communicating, especially to and for those who “read” our history?

:- Doug.

Is there a better way to
communicate
to be with G-d?

:- Doug.

Words get in our way, perhaps
especially written words
it is difficult for us to know how
ancient peoples thought
about how far away was the sun, the planets,
G-d
fifty years from now, will people
express in their new ways
the same frustration with being
unable to know how we thought
–we ancients–
because our words kept us from
thinking, being, touching
our selves,
each other,
them?

:- Doug.

Happiness is found not by seeking it for yourself, rather in seeking it for another, and better, for many.

:- Doug.

It’s not what goes into a person but what comes out that leads to wisdom.

:- Doug.

To our good friends–

What does it mean to have no permanent resting place? it means to be ever on the move. It is movement. Energy. Dynamics. It means you are not held to conventional wisdom: often you do not know it; it does not apply to you; you are expected to raise questions–and dreams. It means seeing new things and seeing new. You are beholden to the graciousness of strangers no longer strange. This journey is undertaken communally, together with others who have no permanent resting place. It means risking being changed, living out change. It means living out compassion. Beyond the mental level, it means to give one’s heart–abililty to go on–over to what may happen–for what choice is there? It means to live your story in the midst of others and life. It means to companion–eat bread with–others and especially whatever it is that overarches all of life. It means living invested with this larger, this sacred.

:- Doug.