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Have a conversation!

:- Doug.

Had any juicy conversations lately?

:- Doug.

If voices are missing the song loses its beauty.

:- Doug.

Sacrifice is sometimes seen as trading: I give up my life so that I get eternal life; I sacrifice my life so that I placate an angry god. Giving beyond sacrifice is giving because it needs to be done: These people need it; If we don’t do it, it won’t get done. Sacrifice is a commercial transaction, a so that; out beyond sacrifice is giving without expecting return, giving because.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 878

It’s not just that we need to talk, but how we talk. We need first to hear all the voices. Of course that means to seek out those people we do not normally hear; it means also to give space to the voice of the meeting—that spirit of the group that arises with a third possibility.

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Conversation provides the music and rhythm in which we move.

:- Doug.

People can be at whatever place they are in the universe, for the universe is a big place. They can relate to and see God as however they like. Whatever any of us sees, whatever all of us sees, is incomplete. But whatever all of us sees is more complete than whatever any of us sees. This is the direction in which we want to look.

:- Doug.

I can call you friend since you are the source of friends and that still allows you to be friend yourself. Source and. I do not address you as puppet master nor as intermeddler, but as friend who accompanies, companion, sharer of bread.

:- Doug.

Community means generous together. This is verb calling us.

:- Doug.

Who wants to engage community?

:- Doug.

Conversation serves as the nervous system of the human community.

:- Doug.

What did we do well next month that positioned us for what we did next year?

:- Doug.

What makes you want to jump up off your seat and do something?

:- Doug.

The fact that G*d is Loving, Living, Being leaves open space for G*d to be personal and relating with me. This is a breakthrough!

:- Doug.

Don’t count the cost
I am seeing
Its meaning
Giving is living
Keep on giving

:- Doug.

What is the live question in your life right now? What’s workin’ ya?

:- Doug.

What’s working around here? Who’s making good change? What do you love to do? What’s fun?

:- Doug.

G*d is
Loving, Living, & Being
—All of it—
That is intelligence
& aimed at me

:- Doug.

The live question for me is bringing the day to day 3 or 6 person missing conversation into existence. Once we invent the way to converse, it will spread itself, because that is its nature.

:- Doug.

What we want is people owning their communities and country and lives.

:- Doug.

The now necessitates work by people on their street getting off their couches, rolling up their sleeves and making little, local bets of their lives.

:- Doug.

As a Community Disorganizer, I am about conversations in our community—the missing juicy conversations that will engage people in taking ownership of our community and world. Engaged intentional conversation toward new Nows. What have we missed working on? Whom have we left out?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 877

Our ears tie us together—what we hear of one another. Being heard I am woven with you.

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