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Simply invite life. Simply invite meeting.

:- Doug.

If death be the beginning of our effect, then I understand in a new way Jesus’ saying that I must go for the Spirit to come and bring you power.

:- Doug.

We, nothing.

Beauty, truth, goodness grow in strength as they approach nothingness. We get our power as persons when we disappear.

Is death thus necessary? Look at eulogies—how people become saints, how we learn from them! I say this not to poke fun, but to poke us awake: our life is not the limit of our effect. Our death might be the beginning.

Can we then accept disappearing to become?

:- Doug.

Can we be in silence? Can we sit in mystery, in not knowing, in not doing, for just this bit?

:- Doug.

Emergence might be just this turning from meeting to working, from I-Thou to I-It. It is the precise point of leaving the narrow ridge upon which we met.

It is carrying some thing away from the meeting. We might be carrying it together, we might be caring for it together, we might be still meeting about it, but from the presence of each other our eyes have turned.

:- Doug.