=== 2009.02.28 (Shelley) Call - Agenda ===
* Welcome - 5 mins
* Check in and previous homework - 10 mins
* Opening words - 5 min
* Deeper topic conversation - 20 mins
* What's next / homework / assign next call - 10 mins
* Closing words - 5 mins
==== Welcome ====
* Brandon: give the context and purpose of these calls
==== Check-In ====
* Re-Introductions, homework reports, states of being
====Previous Homework Assignments====
* Brandon WaterProject will make a phone call and be persistent
* Mickki "grow local colorado" 600 new gardens in Denver (behind on building the website) balancing Business Alliance with desire to build website and pass on (yay ... there is ease in connecting)
* Ted "theme of in community again" (met with Shelley and Stacey)
* Shelley (conflict about outreach when not reading personal email (managing personal life) inspired by water project ... more this week perhaps ... personal issue "feeling inadequate" about not having ideas (less this week))
* Arthur ... lots of energy into local capital summit (spirals and flows even when a community is short on money) outreach "flow principles" even without calling them that explicitly
==== Opening Words ====
:S: Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. . . .
:M: [Human beings], in contrast to other living beings, ha[ve] spiritual concerns --
:A: cognitive,
:L: aesthetic,
:B: social,
:M: political.
:T: Some of [these concerns] are urgent, often extremely urgent, and each of them as well as the vital concerns can claim ultimacy for a human life
:B: or the life of a social group.
:L: If it claims ultimacy it demands the total surrender of [the one] who accepts this claim,
:M: and it promises total fulfillment even if all other claims have to be subjected to it or rejected in its name.
:S: Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith.
==== Today's Deeper Topic: The Ultimate Concern ====
* What do you hear in this language of Ultimate Concern?
* Does it entice or repulse you?
* As you build your community, are you aiming to speak to Ultimate Concern? Why or why not?
* Can you directly name your Ultimate Concern, or is it ineffable?
* What symbols and rituals do you use, or imagine someday using, to approach or invoke Ultimate Concern in a body of human beings?
==== Exploring Theology ====
==== Homework and Planning the Next Call ====
* Arthur
* Lion
* Brandon
* Shelley
* Mickki
* Ted
==== Closing Words ====
:Spirit of Life,
:come unto me.
:Sing in my heart
:all the stirrings of compassion.
:Blow in the wind,
:rise in the sea;
:move in the hand,
:giving life the shape of justice.
:Roots hold me close;
:wings set me free;
:Spirit of LIfe,
:come to me, come to me.