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People yearn for communion, they yearn also for being able to give their best for the world. Perhaps the yearning for communion is an expression of the yearning to give our best.

:- Doug.

We become more human the more we see ourselves not as beings, but as beings-with. We only are persons when we are with another person.

:- Doug.

Destiny needs each of us. We each must act to actualize destiny, destiny which waits for us. Or rather waits in us as the yearning, the thing we most want to bring to the world as an act of our deepest love.

:- Doug.

Where in the Protestant service today is the opening for us to meet God in the way that reaches each on his or her own ground? Where in a time filled with listening to other’s words and singing other’s songs, where am I addressed, met, given space? The work of the people has become the canned work of the liturgist and we are lost.

:- Doug.

Let us invent how to voice the yearning we have for communion, for being heard and known.

:- Doug.

Each instant we can choose again. We can engage. We can take responsibility for what we love. We can serve the larger.

:- Doug.

Do we want to be one of a mass of consumers, or this person? Do we want to spend some quality time, or do we want to have quality now, with nothing else pulling us? Do we want this life of greys, or that of a cornucopia of coloring, of engaging?

:- Doug.

Point not to magic, but to the ineffable.

:- Doug.

Point not to where we are wrong but to where we might raise our sights. We can tingle our consciences: that’s OK to get our attention. Then move beyond. We often already know what’s better: let’s go there.

:- Doug.

God wants not your guilt
God wants your freedom
God, the all, incurs the shredding of flesh from your wrong-doing
Even so, risks all on you
All the all
Crying Get over it!
Crying Get on with it!

:- Doug.

A God on a throne
A God in a heaven “up there”
A God at any location
Is too small
For reality

:- Doug.

Loving is withing.

:- Doug.

Let’s not spend time with people
Let’s with them earn time

:- Doug.

Notice the transformations already on the loose.

:- Doug.

Is it not our task to boldly catch away glimpses into the heart of God and report them?

:- Doug.

The throne is the very best that is in us. Our guilt is our pissing upon that throne.

:- Doug.

My whole work is conversation:
Ever a colon:
A meeting:
An opening:
No periods

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1222

I am a little snowflake
Six-winged snowflake
See me fly
I go from cloud to cloud
A-bouncing and a-bumping
What a ride!
Now I’m jumping off the last
Wheeeeee!
See me fly!
And softly crunch
Into my brothers and sisters
Here on the nice comfy-cold earth
We nuzzle and snuggle all close
Soon we become one
And smile at you
And smile at the sun
Then we run away!

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Conversation is not namby-pamby. It is the hardest work in the world and you don’t know how to do it. It must be invented anew each turning.

:- Doug.

Living in the meeting: only here, only hear.

:- Doug.

Law our age sees as yoke and chain and fate. Yet one can work within the law, even approach using the law, if one is aware of choices. That is the point: we can still choose. Life can meet life and thrive, for law means living well with.

:- Doug.

The work of being of God entails decisions as well as labor, inventing a way as well as morality, choosing a work as well as waiting for orders.

:- Doug.

Opening to God is opening to the larger all about.

:- Doug.