highly recommend his book and web site.
Best wishes to all of you in OS, whose posts inspire me so much.
Jim Metcalf
jim9...@altelco.net
On Mar 4, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Harrison Owen wrote:
> Koos -- Wonderful to hear from you! And I think you are correct that the
> "disappointment"
I find it encouraging to remember that in the Genesis 1 story,
organization happened with words. Let's talk!
Jim Metcalf
jim9...@altelco.net
On Feb 16, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Ralph Copleman wrote:
If we say we live in a self-organizing universe, and if we also say
there is no such thing
Good morning to all from West Michigan!
Please forgive me if I've overlooked a part of this discussion.
It seems that those interested in control over others ought to take a good
look at three questions and a proposition:
Q1) Has it worked well, i.e. up to your hopes and dreams for your fami
Doug,
I keep thinking about your question, and feeling like I should have
something to say about it, and coming up close to empty, but my heart aches
for your congregation, and I hope that your tension is peacefully resolved
in due time. I also keep thinking that many are wiser than I am on the
su
April 03, 2004 12:45 PM
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Subject: Doug's church seeks a pastor
Jim Metcalf--
You have spoken very well to the heart of my concerns and I hope my
congregation's.
Are you the Jim from Michigan I met at the Midwest OSonOS in Peoria 2 years
ago?
What r
ate ethics, equitable taxation,
NAFTA and GATT, are all examples of topics that we should talk about in some
coordinate fashion as a nation, so that sound ideas can gain increasingly
large hearing, and that differing regional needs can be taken into account.
Best Wishes Always,
Jim Metcalf
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Harrison,
I'd like to follow up on your oft repeated theme of "Less is More". It seems
an apt way to describe a life rooted in One's Death.
I struggle to apply that to the church I serve on an ongoing basis. "Less"
is ideally "Word and Sacrament Ministry" and "Lives thereby transformed by
the Spiri
Eva,
The word "serendipity" was coined by Horace Walpole in reflection on a fairy
tale called "The Three Princes of Serendip". You can read much more about it
on this link: http://livingheritage.org/three_princes.htm
If you trouble yourself to go there, serendipity will be yours.
Peace and joy on y
Greetings!
My son called last Tuesday afternoon, needing a little help (always
flattering). He's youth director at a church in Montana. Last year a member
of his group died tragically, and of course, they had a memorial service.
Now the family was asking him to help with a small "year later" event
connection to
reality. It's a puzzle, and we'd deeply appreciate help.
Best Wishes Always,
Jim Metcalf
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you call "guerilla groups", knowing that many will fail, but some will be
the future of the organization.
Thanks for bringing back a great idea!
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rmore, it includes twenty-three case
accounts of nonviolent struggle in the twentieth century.
To find out additional information, visit the institute's web site:
www.aeinstein.org <http://www.aeinstein.org/>
Best Wishes Alwa
Dear Friends in OS,
What I have learned in OS is that 1) it works; 2) the people of this list
are collectively the most intellectually interesting, generous-hearted,
peaceful people I have ever met; 3) and this gives me hope. Thanks to all of
you who participate on this list. You enrich my life.
Kenoli:
I agree whole-heartedly with your comments, and feel that my heart is in
your pen. If Rumsfeld and Ashcroft get their way, then America will indeed
have lost our reason for being, and the world will be poorer.
I believe, as always, that the answer is talk, courageous talk.
Jim Metcalf
It seems to me that the ancient Hebrew prophets wrote poetically about the
Spirit of Love bringing order out of chaos. Harrison, Winston, are you
talking about this kind of thing?
Jim Metcalf
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From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu]On Behalf Of Winston
self) and simultaneously folks report that they feel a
heightened sense of personal empowerment, but always in the context of that
community. They go with the flow and get with the program -- willingly, and
with a remarkable sense of joy. And it is all self-organization. Maybe?
Jim Metcalf
-Origin
Creative Space
Silence holds the open space
In tension. Striving with its
Own being, creative space
Changes without changing as
Silence grows and tension grows
Until a word is spoken:
Open space. Creative Space.
Tension holds space open now
Talking tenses listening now.
Will listeners take two f
, for self, until
Space opens creatively.
Jim Metcalf
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Dear OS Listers -
My son is looking for an NGO to employ his talents and knows not where
to turn. He's imagining Protestant, while I'm hoping he'll be more
broad-minded. Please send suggestions to jim9...@altelco.net
With thanks and love for all you do,
Jim
Dear Fellow Travelers in Open Space,
Thank you to all of you who have stimulated my thinking with such
sincere and open thoughts on the nature of spirit. You have challenged
me, and I am sure, accepted that I and other of us more silent types
would accept you and your offerings. You are brave and
It sounds to me like the group had a beautiful experience. In all things
give thanks.
Best wishes always,
Jim
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From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of
Douglas D. Germann, Sr.
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 11:56 PM
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.e
Artur:
You wrote: "The idea of a "Divine Operating Plan (with the creator being
the COO...) would be a non-sense and probably an heresy for a Buddhist.
An probably also for a non-manicheist Christian."
You have succinctly described one of the chief heresies operating in the
name of Christianity tod
Dear Julie and all,
> As Artur has so beautifully explained, a Manicheist is a dualist, one
> who sees the world in terms of "good guys" and "bad guys". This goes
> much farther back in history than the 1950s Hollywood westerns where
the
> good guys wore white hats. It goes back to Persia a coupl
Dear Brian and all fellow adventurers in Open Space!
I am struggling with two opportunities.
The first is for my own congregation, a pleasant, unchallenged group of
Lutherans. I am planning an Open Space event for them, with the
encouragement of the council, to plan activity for the months Septembe
Jack,
Michael Herman and I have occasionally, and recently, corresponded,
about putting together some sort of training event for Michigan area
folk interested in Open Space. Would that fit for you?
Jim
-Original Message-
From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of J
Harrison,
Please send me the draft as a Word document. I appreciate OS as an
avenue to peace on several levels. Thank you for all you have done
through OS to make my life better.
Peace and joy,
Jim
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From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of
Harri
Hi, Alan and others!
Yours is an intriguing idea. The Democratic Party almost has obviated
its reason for existence by failing to distinguish itself from the
Republicans. Perhaps it can again become the party of the demes. We may
not have the money, but we sure have the ideas and the votes.
Best Wi
Birgett,
Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful, courageous, compassionate
heart. Peace be with you.
Jim
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From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of
Birgitt Williams
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 5:57 PM
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Subject
This is good poetry, a lovely gift. Thank you.
Love,
Jim
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From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Julie
Smith
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 5:14 PM
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Subject: peace poem
remembering who we are
innocent as the m
Peggy,
Your thought of "power as love" is profound and you struck a chord with
me. I would carry it on to say, "Love is Service". At the heart of my
thinking are the notions that it is in giving that we gain, and that in
dying we live. And then I admit that I have a long way to go.
Thanks for shari
Dear Julie and Birgitt,
Please excuse me for jumping in on your conversation regarding free will,
accepting and not accepting. Such things are hot topics to me.
The first thought that came to my mind is from Suzuki, the great teacher of
music. He asked his students to memorize certain aphorisms, on
nd to
their health and balance on a daily basis.
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From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu]On Behalf Of Jim
Metcalf
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 6:10 PM
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Subject: Re: Do we open space or...
Dear Julie and Birgitt,
Please excuse m
nal cooperation. Do
good to those who hate us. We will refuse to fight terrorism with our own
state-sponsored terrorism. And then we must listen to the poor of the world
to understand how they would construct a better world for their childre
uch each other's souls. This is the power of Open Space.
Jim Metcalf
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From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu]On Behalf Of Harrison
Owen
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:04 AM
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Subject: Self-Organization...More...
What s
I like that: better theology, too.
Jim Metcalf
-Original Message-
From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu]On Behalf Of Harrison
Owen
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 1:45 PM
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Subject: Re: Self-Organization
At 07:27 PM 11/17/01 -0500, Jim
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