Hope for something unseen, unprojected from now
There is hope
In meeting
Hope for something new
Unseen
Unprojected from now
You can’t walk there from here
But we might
Converse ourselves there
—This too is a way of reverence
:- Doug.
Archive for April 10th, 2010
at least in our hearts
G*d resides at least in our hearts, so let us lift high our hearts and do our best for each other and for G*d.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1047: The thing of which we are made feeds us most
Footprints in the Windsm # 1047
This morning I was reading Martin Luther King, Jr.’s doctoral study of theology concentrated on personalism—a term I had not heard before. It holds, in part, as I understand it now, that the human personality is at the center of the cosmos. My picture of that is like the result of the big bang—all constellations and stars start and therefore are at the very center at all moments and are simultaneously moving out into the world from there, expanding the space between them, expanding the love in which they swim. And so it is natural that the thing of which we are made is what feeds us most.
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What are mansions good for? Parties! Banquets! Gathering!
Heaven is not cells for each soul, but has mansions. And what are mansions good for? Parties! Banquets! Gathering!
Heaven is not composed of mansions, either. Heaven is composed of G*d—the same as here. We are children and of G*d is our very essence. When we meet face to face we shall see our family resemblance, we shall see our face in the face.
:- Doug.
Community is what G*d does
We are seeking what is higher and better residing in us, indeed the higher and better within which we are residing. What is this if not truth and love and beauty, in a word, G*d? Community is where G*d is alive. Community is what G*d does.
:- Doug.
the thing we are doing is larger than us
We need to find G*d in between us, among us, for the thing we are doing is larger than us. But it is us: us is bigger than us, yes? For if we do not see G*d here, then where?
:- Doug.
we can open the world to spirit
We do not generate spirit, but we can open ourselves and the world to spirit. We can open space for the world to be larger. This is not simply a social fact of life, but a profound spiritual fact of life.
:- Doug.
