not a history book
The Bible is
not a history book
doesn’t have to be
:- Doug.
Adding to a poem
Can subtract
:- Doug.
Archive for February, 2014
Footprints in the Windsm # 1398–Small and major
Footprints in the Windsm # 1398
Don’t choose to do a big thing: that takes too long. Choose and do a small thing in a major way. Major acts are those that evoke—or are evoked by—a felt change in awareness.
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Had no spiritual insights overnight. It is good
Had no spiritual insights overnight. It is good some days to go without. Wringing out the sponge only makes it drier. Let living and loving take me where they will, and do the work of the day. Allow the waters to flow as they will.
:- Doug.
Years spent caring for an older person: rewarding?
Have you spent months or years caring for a parent or person older than you? Despite the difficulties, was it rewarding? Please share examples….
:- Doug.
Today I learned another pair
Fear is the opposite of love
I have known for some time
Today I learned another pair—
Control is the opposite of trust
:- Doug.
buoying the field
Beauty, truth, and goodness
children of love
underneath, buoying,
the field,
the all there is
:- Doug.
the longer it takes to retrieve
The more you know
the longer it takes to retrieve it
with computers we off-load
some of this to archive
perhaps we try to expand
our memory by off-loading to our
spouses!
:- Doug.
Not here
Not here
of each of us
not all
is here
most days
so we are smaller
than ourselves
strive not for
larger than yourself
rather to be
as big as you
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1397–The very center of humanity
Footprints in the Windsm # 1397
The very center
of humanity
—like that of the universe—
is here in the midst of us
right here,
that which we work upon:Seek no larger shore
do the daily,
knowingDo at the still point
of humanity’s turningMore and more
this
is the still point
of the turning
we know instantly
the news of the day
some time soon
within the instantMore: we want to know
Why?
We need to
know each other
intimately
vulnerably
from the insideSo we
are turning
every place
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Major poetry, minor poetry
The difference is not acknowledgement
By history nor in fame
Minor poetry is beautiful, seeks
To entertain, a wondrous turn of phrase
Major poetry works to evoke
A felt change in consciousness
In reader sometimes, poet always
:- Doug.
Where do we place our attention?
Where do we place our attention? On God? I don’t think so, since God’s attention is on all of God’s offspring, and so therefore must our attention be. Union with God is less desirable than loving a hungry person with food, an outcast with taking in. Do we give up the need to change the world, as Meg Wheatley suggests? I think so to this extent, that it keeps us from loving in the now. But not to the extent it hardens us against helping up someone who is fallen or a group unjustly held back.
We can serve here and now, and therefore should. We have a larger span of vision, and so we can still strive for larger effect. In each case we hold ourselves to the standard not of results but of the love we put into play.
:- Doug.
May you Whee!
May you Whee!
Whee! seems to fill
Heart and mind, you and friend,
Spaces between, O, spaces between,
Rhythm in, rhythm all about
Sometimes we are not here
Someplace else we are…or not at all
Smaller than Whee! could be
When we could be larger than we are
Pulse, pulse, feel your pulse!
Dance we the bigger than dance dance
:- Doug.
Is G limited?
Is G limited
to be only
omnipresent
only
omnipotent?
or are more possibilities
open
to G?
:- Doug.
strength in vulnerability
There is strength in vulnerability, just as there is vulnerability in strength.
:- Doug.
What are you doing, honey?
What are you doing, honey?
Playing.
Where did this child learn this word?
Does playing mean to the child
Doing what I’d doing when I am myself?
:- Doug.
Is God fractal?
Is God fractal? Unlikely, since our concept of G is that G is larger than our concepts, and fractal is only one among many. But our concepts of God are all we know of God and are in turn made up of our minds and things we see and things we imagine. We certainly make up concepts of God, and those we don’t, those that are “revealed,” are still some part revelation and some part our thinking. What we are left with, at core, is that we can say only God is, as the Hebrew writer put it, “I AM:” everything else is speculation.
:- Doug.
