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The following is a look back on thoughts from “What if …God
Never Hurries” from April through December’s 2013 blogs:
Share time, talent and treasure; know your and other’s
unconditional worth; be kind and tolerant; suspend judgment of self and others;
listen; dialogue respectfully; allow everyone a voice; employ reason,
cooperation and coordination; find a good coach; be a good coach; learn
teamwork; stay in the game.
Nature heals; keep your eye on the big blue ball we live on;
live simply and sustainably; everything is connected; strength and order flow
from the interdependency of diverse communities; be curious; question; trust
your mind, heart and gut; all that lives is holy; equal opportunity and
adequate resources for everyone benefits us all; freedom workers everywhere
deserve deep gratitude; share what difficulty taught us for the good of all;
forgiveness transforms; understand complicity.
Suspend anxiety for things undone and the need to be perfect
or right; look around and know all is good; use the written language with power
and creativity; combine gentleness and strength; heal one another through
laughter and tears; trust what comes, comes because it needs to; celebrate what
doesn’t get done--enjoy the present; laugh and smile daily; let go of feeling
too responsible; hold the questions with infinite patience; find joy and new
ideas in the accomplishment of others; there is always a choice versus the
victim role; be not afraid; remember serenity, take sanctuary time (rest,
breadth and going within); return to being faithful without incrimination; pray
daily, “What do I need to let go of today? What do I need to embrace?”
Admire cheeky courage; affirm courage with a smile and, “You
are very brave;” the voice of God within sings for peace not war, love not
hate, and acceptance not rejection of the other and creates deep bonds;
befriend both light and darkness—let pain be pain and mystery be mystery; silence
feeds abuse; oppression hurts everyone; suffering brings deep meaning to the
surface; be present to whatever is; honor pain and let it grow us into more
caring people; while sitting with pain, breathing and praying eventually
reveals the next step toward growth; pain brings awareness of Compassion
dwelling within us--creativity flows from compassion, be part of a healing
community; presence equals Presence.
Common people do have common sense; empower one another; work
tirelessly for a more just world; we have the freedom to be wrong; humility is
a gift from our mistakes; we are all evolving; evolution is about randomness,
differences and change; we need good paternal and maternal instincts to help
us; asking the right questions is critical when seeking truth; the capacity for
reflection transformed us into the human species; we can guide the process of
evolution to take us where we want to go; pause and reflect; getting upset is
so unproductive; how I react to what I bump into determines my progress or
decline; catch someone doing something right and praise him or her; smile more;
cooperate in small groups using consensus; every student, regardless of age,
needs to have a vote in major decisions affecting them; human nature goes
beyond self-interest; the idea that self-interest promotes the common good is
profoundly wrong; respect and highlight diversity; search for ways to end
global poverty; we each play a role in evolution; ask “What do I need to keep
me more balanced?” And above all, trust in the slow work of God.
What if we are all called, and none of us is worthy, and it
is all about forgiveness?
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