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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 909

Today my dental hygienist told of her neighbor—an older lady—who really needs people to look out for her, but she does not want help. This living story shows we need to invent ways to be neighbors again (or actually from scratch in our new society). It has been a generation or two since people were neighbors and so for the most part we don’t know the art. We will need to create it. And that is good, for our times require of us a neighborly actions to fit our times.

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Ask each other bigger questions.

:- Doug.

All my writing is of God:
each piece another part of God

:- Doug.

We may not be able to find an image for God; we may be incapable, large as our imaginations are; or God as spirit may defy image.

You might morph. You might be understandable to some people as the old grey man on a big chair. You might appear to others as Om or sound or turtles all the way down or an elephant or giraffe. That is all OK, now. I do not have to go searching for an image that works for all and for all time. I can see you as verb or adjective or no thing at all. You are there, you are loving me. All OK now.

So we learn to live with an imageless God. We allow others their images and perhaps they allow us ours. Our images may come and go, shape-shifting. Or we have none at all. Could we live our lives with no images of ourselves?

All OK now.

:- Doug.

We can take a larger view of the world; if we do, we are of the best of our species.

:- Doug.

Leaders are within a group, not separate.

:- Doug.