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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1228

Compassion is not a quality some people own and others do not. It is a work, something we consciously, rationally choose. We work at developing compassion in us. It waxes and wanes, and we continually dust away what covers it. Compassion ought to be used as verb.

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We need to warm and soften the brittle shell of our thinking.

:- Doug.

Repair of the earth, Kingdom of God, and the beloved community are different wordings for the same thing.

:- Doug.

The fact that there is (however it got there) in our breasts the great heart of humanity means to me that we need to respond. Not just I, but we. I can only invite you, and can only sometimes control myself. But together we can invite each other, remind each other, re-heart each other: of the great heart of humanity.

:- Doug.

Bring forth the next
Say it outright
Or reflect
Grief
Criticism
Amazement
Hope
Not correcting
Not directing
Finding, Creating
Together

:- Doug.

Lost touch
we have
with our
great heart
grieve, grieve

:- Doug.