Get
Get us talking.
:- Doug.
What conversation would change your world?
:- Doug.
Archive for June, 2008
We’ve never much worked together
We’ve never much worked together; working together is a fun thing. It lifts us. This is the people working together. Creatively, causally, making peace and fullness.
:- Doug.
Let’s see how much fun we can have
Let’s see how much fun we can have causing via conversing.
:- Doug.
If you want more of G*d
G*d being distributed, if you want more of G*d, you must meet more people, touch more of the world.
:- Doug.
Who else?
Who else
is hurt?
is helped?
has ideas?
knows something?
touches this?
cares?
is touched?
moves?
might help?
:- Doug.
Weave people together. Who else?
Weave people together. See what we are missing in the way of gossamer, point it out, attach a few more threads. Let’s cause a world we love.
Be looking for is the connections to other people. The “who else?” question is then essential.
:- Doug.
G*d is distributed
G*d is distributed. Not just omnipresent, but the All There Is, in with through and under, in the hearts of all persons, and not centered in any one place (whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is no where) so that we might say, Look, there he is, or Over here, but rather is every place and where and who and what and when and how and why.
God then is as substantial as you and I and that rocky crag, and as ephemeral as the wind.
As a result, God is in the group, is the group, is the betweens, the narrow ridge, the third person among and between, the conversation. When we are in conversation we are birthing God as God is birthing us, we are reaching out to find God already there when we arrive.
:- Doug.
walking, talking, inviting
The centrality of it is this is G*d in our world, walking and talking among us, inviting us to be causes of our world.
:- Doug.
Radical conversing
This is conversing about radical conversing: Taking charge, acting to cause the world as we want to know it, as we want to live it. If we go on as we have, we get what we have gotten. If we are to have fun and fullness, then we live the world.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 864
Footprints in the Windsm # 864
Conversation is the music
That lives all around us
It’s grown thin & weak among us lately
This the Word that fed the prophets
Of our generations yet unborn
Can you hear their imaginations roaring
Showing us from inside us
What other worlds are possible?
Dance & sing!
Please pass it on.
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Chip away what is not community
Ahh! Communities. Find the communities and chip away what is not community. Find the community already extant. Tell me the stories of your community here-now in this place and in these times. In this place-time.
:- Doug.
Listen in a new way
Listen in a new way, to what the wind is speaking to what the water is speaking to what the hearts are speaking. Listen like I do on these pages. Touch the deeps. Listen in the deeps.
:- Doug.
The minority report in the Bible
Repent: change your ways. The prophets were the minority report of the Bible! They were the ones who spoke to the king and said You are not doing right by our kin. They were the ones who spoke to the poor and said This is your community. Not rise up and overthrow, rise up and cause good!
:- Doug.
This is G*d’s work:
This is G*d’s work: this is G*d. G*d is in the conversations because G*d is in each of us. The house of G*d is built of hands…and feet and hearts. There is ever fresh love for us to do.
G*d is in us as well as in each of us: G*d is between us, weaving us together in a gossamer fabric. Some call this fabric church, or Christ or community or something else. The words do not matter, the word and the flow does.
:- Doug.
Conversation is inevitable
Conversation is inevitable good, water seeking its level, a baby vocalizing. We can stop or flow, we can imped or allow or make way. We can immerse and be created, or be a dead twig carried along. We can be lulled by the babbling or hold our heart pounding in rapids. Water pulses, flows, is blown, becomes still. Baby runs, giggles, cries, sleeps. Conversation works effortlessly, water seeking its level, a baby vocalizing.
:- Doug.
