Change is a glimmer
Change is a glimmer, nudges a groggy hope toward wakefulness, becomes possible, gathers one then two, and soon something is happening: change grows in conversation.
:- Doug.
Archive for April, 2007
Footprints in the Wind sm # 761
Footprints in the Windsm # 761
When we move beyond struggle
To see our impermanence as loving us
We expand toward infinity.
All moves from solidity
To ephemera, and back, and back,
As by a larger respiration.
The question is not how safe can we get
Rather how open can we be?
Are these for you good:
Wonder and surprise?
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You haven’t thought it through
You haven’t thought it through until you’ve come to the conclusion you’ve exhausted all you can, and that after you have searched all you can.
:- Doug.
see I sacrifice to you
G*d would not allow
the sacrifice of a son to G*d
instead G*d sacrificed to us!
Dream of what you are capable:
see I sacrifice to you!
:- Doug.
Persons doing what agencies cannot
This is people doing what agencies, corporations, movements and governments cannot—creating human connections.
:- Doug.
Who are men?
Jesus promised to make them fishers of men. Who are men? Adults. People capable of bigger things than Jesus. Not cattle to be led or driven or milked. They even left the fish on the shore! So we are here to catch men and women and in this case us!, our imaginations in particular, and put them to use in feeding and tending lambs and sheep—those who need our care. Who? is the question—Who are the sheep and lambs for us to tend and feed?
:- Doug.
Open with a listening mind
Open with a listening mind
Go beyond listening:
To hear
To meet
Today
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Wind sm # 760
Footprints in the Windsm # 760
Why do we find it difficult to talk to our closest people about important heart matters? Perhaps it is as simple as stories. We stop growing together when we stop telling stories. Our need for stories is on-growing.
Please pass it on.
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Footprints in the Wind sm # 759
Footprints in the Windsm # 759
Have you ever seen a string of cows
at the waning of the light
headed toward their stations
to be relieved of the milk their chewing
through the day has produced?How they can remind us of humans
of the workplace queuing up at end of day
headed home to dinner and television
to rest and make ready to do it all another day
nor looking to see beyond the repeating cyclesMaybe imagination will let us see
or some offhand remark show us
—if we choose to look larger and pay attention—
all the people (voices seldom heard too)
live out our lives: of our world, creators
Please pass it on.
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People have become creators
This is another piece of our vision: People have become creators.
:- Doug.
All we want
We’re not given to achieve all we want, but that does not mean we should cease trying.
:- Doug.
The us-ing of us
You are the personal who is the among that is between us, the birthing of us daily, the weaning of us, the us-ing of us, the prodding of us, the un-finishing of us. Do you only have meaning in us? What is the meaning of us?
:- Doug.
Unfinished art
This would be good for a piece of art: left unfinished, for others to fill in, to call to others—and to us—to complete. What does our world look like? What do we want? What is possible? What can you fill out?
:- Doug.
Business and peace
How can business ultimately lead to peace, if it is based upon a model of competition, that is muted war? We absolutely need to change the metaphor of business to something more organic and cooperative, something that works with life, not against it.
:- Doug.
Not a choice
If you are tearing down, what are you left with? Nothing. So human nature is left with a choice between creating something or nothing, and this is not a choice. Humans therefore are predisposed to make good.
:- Doug.
