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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1695

To educate—draw out—an elder one need only hint
To draw out a child one cannot do the whole
One must be satisfied with sparkling mist—
And a certain trust in childness

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Nature speaks to us so potently
freeing us from words

:- Doug.

To bring you out
I-Thou arrives
to share

:- Doug.

There is no art of dialogue
For it is not something you produce
It happens with

:- Doug.

Give us meetings holy

:- Doug.

Inhalation
exhalation
meeting points
two per breath
whole

:- Doug.

Release and preservation, bond and liberation, turning and returning, away and toward, preserves and redeems, becoming and being, periphery and center, It and Thou, using/experiencing and relating/meeting. Seen in these word pairs, I get a hint. We dimly see: we must return.

:- Doug.

Becoming is larger than being
Meeting larger than both\

:- Doug.

It’s always a safe saying,
Your God is too small

:- Doug.

Deep breath, I-Thou
Release, I-It
Fall silent between, mystery turning-returning

:- Doug.

Maybe there is a light in the tunnel.

:- Doug.

Tell us about a time you learned something important that most people miss?

:- Doug.

Tell us about a time you learned something important about…spirituality?

:- Doug.

Tell us about a time you learned something important about…marriage?

:- Doug.

Tell us about a time you learned something important about…money?

:- Doug.

The first next step is to start calling meetings.

:- Doug.

A day to change the conversation

:- Doug.

And is the word of spirit, of meeting
I and Thou needs And

:- Doug.

A wound attended
Has a chance to heal

:- Doug.

Anger: we should also forgive our creditors.

:- Doug.

Elders cannot have it all: we can have it better: as we keep choosing.

:- Doug.

Eldering is a choice: something given up for something larger, a choice revisited and revisited.

:- Doug.

How then shall we elder?

:- Doug.