2015-10-29

Daughter, in pain, warn out, with ... study deadlines, work plans to write, sick children around, emotional thinness.


I have learned to boast of my frailties, weaknesses, etc,


Hug, kiss -
my Miss.
Go well
dear gal.
Know when
to spend
time blest
at rest.
Admit
your bit
of need
then heed
Wisdom's
kingdom's
quiet call
though small;
and trust,
as must
those who
need to;
because
He was
needing
as King
'nointed
(so said
God's voice
to boys
spruking)
list'ning
time with
God's kith
and kin.
Begin,
as led
(He said),
follow,
His slow
painful
shameful
death so
ego
won't rule
as tool
of fool.
God brings,
as springs
new sprout,
life out
of death.
His breath!
O, X, (hug, kiss)
my Miss,
from Dad
(sad / glad).

2015-10-25

all awash


Today was spent involved in helping orchestrate ...

A symbol1 of GOD’s NEW COVENANT2..


Old Greek word “Baptidzo”

spoke of being washed, so,

folk in the First Cent’ry

baptidz” before entry..



..to clean family places;

or religious spaces;

after doing shopping,

after sex, when stopping..



[Some-times it had to be

(to wash you really clean -

-culture’s understanding)

liv-ing water, run-ning.]



Washed” can mean bathed or showered:

(though not norm'ly "empowered")

part of read-y-ing for

meeting folk of import..



before we see their face;

or maybe with a race:

kind of "get ready, set..",

then we're lift-ing our head,



That was all John offered

John the Washer/Prophet,

but then his master came,

& John did not refrain


from announcing to who

heard (as some folk do who

try to watch and listen),

they followed the glisten.



The rest is, as they say,

it’s "His-story" today..

Jesus (or Yeshua)

didn’t wash3 in water4!



He would clean his folk in-

side their core-soul, from sin

by showing us that LOVE

lives on Earth, from above.



He would grow his folk - us

(following him), our focus -

from our death-ly need to

have things our way, or “blue”.



Loving-kindness (kHes-ed),

He rose up from the dead,

Now he would rise in us,

first “dead & buried”, thus.



Jesus-washed might mean

like be’ng “washed - out to sea

both “rubbish” (stuff that’s been),

but also “little ol’ me5!


1Baptism”, as it was introduced into this NEW WORLD ORDER, with a NEW WORLD-VIEW,  twenty centuries ago:
1.      On the surface of things it certainly was a ritual. (But we don’t have to be scared of rituals, because so is “hand-washing” nowadays in a hospital, and it can help.)
2.      The English word “Baptism” is simply a transliteration of the Greek word “Baptizo”, which means to wash. (That is to have a bath or a shower.  Who here has washed in the last week? Who had a bath? Who had a shower?) So it’s a ritual washing (Mark 7 & Mark 1)
3.      John says “I’m washing you with water (a paraphrase might be: “I’m washing your outside body, with water”). But he’s (the greater one coming after John the washer) going to wash you (on the inside, your inside being) with the Holy Spirit”. There’s two washings here: a water washing & a waterless (spirit) washing, a dry-cleaning. …  Will his (the greater one coming after John the washer) baptism be symbolic? – or is water baptism the symbol of this deeper washing of our non-physical being? I think so, since the apostle Paul says we have only one baptism or washing… the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit…
This first symbol of God’s TRUE, new WAY of LIFE goes with another symbol which Jesus left his followers to get involved in. This first symbol is like washing your hands, before the next big event which is: let’s EAT & DRINK – let’s share a meal together… God & Humanity at table are to sit  down! There is a big feast coming up, and the “symbol” of it involves having “FOOD & DRINK” TOGETHER, WITH HIM, & US. So let’s do the wash bit, then maybe we can do the Food & Drink bit together too.

2..This is different to a CONTRACT (which seems to be aimed more at a task). It focusses back on LOVE, affection, response, inclusiveness, with the goal of us “getting & keeping together”. It involves love & discipline, and is aimed at people relating (not primarily based on maintaining, protecting & enhancing POWER, but) in LOVE.
God doescovenant” (and “kingdom”, and “power” & “glory”) different to us ZOMBIES. The covenantal way brings on the consequences of either keeping it, or not, in order to help the covenant happen. If you break it, you don’t throw it away and get on with uncovenanted life again, you come back to your covenantal partner hoping that the LOVE of the covenant will creatively help you find a way forward… (like a child coming to their parent & asking for a spanking, “Daddy, I think I need a spank, because of the way I just treated my little sister”, to help the child grow good).
The new covenant is based on love, so it’s between PEOPLE, both those people; to form A PEOPLE (e.g. One MAN, in covenant with One WOMAN, forms a new FAMILY SYSTEM; or PARENTS in covenant with CHILDREN forms a new FAMILY “SOLAR”-SYSTEM)
God’s new covenant understands a difference between signposts & labels. This side of reality, it’s not much into labels, but it is not scared of signposts and symbols. It knows that they are secondary, but we’re in a kingdom where secondary things (e.g. humans) are to be included and loved. So e.g. Marriage covenants in human society commonly have different kinds of symbols (1 - once off) a wedding ceremony & celebrations, & (2 - ongoingly) rings (exchanged & worn ongoingly), and a yearly wedding anniversary.
In our “unloving agreements” we have a tendency to keep the minimum, our propensity is to “unlove” the Universe, in line with our King or Leader, who appears to have gotten on ICE, & to be almost programed to steal, kill, and destroy. So we look at the surface of things, not the heart of things; the words, not the spirit of things.
As with most covenants, you learn as you go: you are setting rails to run on, to live IN love, and to live OUT love; (at the same time) so you’ll even build on it as you go till you find you have a beautiful dance, song, building, created through the out-workings of this covenant of creative love in God’s World. We’re all invited into it. We find out who the “chosen” are by finding those fish who have been lured by the bait (that expression of God’s Love we find in Jesus) – into LOVE.
3 Christian Washing (Baptism) is following Jesus, with Jesus as our model:
1.      Jesus got “baptised” (washed) with the washing of “John the Washer” as a symbol, model.. but then much later on, he said that
2.      he still had another “baptism” (washing) to undergo (Mark 10, & Luke 12)… what was that? A washing away of this old biological life (because for us it is lived by the principles we learned from the culture of this world;) and a bringing forward of the new life that everyone expected after the General Resurrection at the end of the World (lived by the principles of Love & Wisdom) expressed in Faith, & with an expectation of much, much more. [As James (Jesus’ little brother) says later, looking back at Jesus’ life as he had seen it: The kind of life that God is on about is “Looking after the fatherless & widows in their distress, and keeping oneself uncontaminated by the world”]
3.      The Apostle Paul then actually interprets this (Jesus way of seeing things) for us & says that OUR washing (baptism) is to copy his - his death, burial, and resurrection. So these 3 are central to the life of a Jesus follower, and our Christian washing is the symbol of this new way of living.
4But this baptism is not supposed to make us, as legend says that Pilate became: OCD about hand-washing; nor like filthy pigs that don’t care about getting anything dirty, “… ‘cause we’ll just get it dry-cleaned”. We need washing when-ever we get dirty. As Jesus said to Peter… “If you’ve had a bath, you only need to clean the parts of you that have gotten dirty, in this case your feet”. We need a washing/exchange of our spirit, by a holy spirit, we want to wash away our dirty ol’ lives, then get on with doing what-ever you were washing your hands for: eat a meal, shake someone’s hand, do your art-work, play the piano, cut up the vegies…
5In this case (for Greg & Jacque) , a further background in this symbolism seems to be that families that came into God’s new Covenant or God’s NEW FAMILY AGREEMENT, in the first Century got washed together (like all having a bath, or a swim, together –symbolically following Jesus in washing away their old way of doing life, and taking on his new life). Families do that sort of thing, sometimes.
Here Greg & Jacque have already set themselves to work together with God to create a new family unit, in this New Covenant, strangely, under the rule of “the most maligned, blamed, person in Australia”. So it’s not yet apparent that he’s been picked to rule the Universe; but they’ve placed their eggs in this one basket. So they’re wanting to pledge themselves (and are asking their chosen “God-parents” to pledge them-selves; and also just giving them the right) to poke their nose into the “raising” of Francie; to model themselves, & help train her to head in this same direction of following Jesus, living out his life, he takes fa(r)ther into us, coming to see that the core of reality is in fact personal, & adopting his method & WAY of living, in other words to model to her, & to help train her to: 1) Look after the fatherless & widows in their distress & to  2) Keep uncontaminated by this world’s way of doing things.
I’m suggesting a WINDOW WASHER (and an apron) as an appropriate symbol of the task of keeping on looking at reality through the WORLD-VIEW Yeshua brought us (and doing it).

2015-10-18

Thoughts on the way..... a mate puts it straight.

As I have received Christ Jesus as my Lord, I walk with Him, He is the one that encourages me and builds me up. My faith is only in Him that teaches me the way to live. I am so thankful for all He has done and for the life He has given me. Colossians 2:6-7 (PM Version)


The Way we start
'sthe way we end
'sthe way our heart
will grow and mend

in his kingdom
his way is life
his rule is strong
to love his wife

not for himself
or what he'll gain
'sthough he needs wealth,
he'll take on shame

because of love
his "way" to rule
he'll never "shove"
a friend, as tool.

But he will woo,
he will entice,
do what's to do
(that's not just nice)

so as to build
not buildings, (but) folk,
till up they're filled
(sheila and bloke)

with life and love
overflowing.
Life "from above",
that's worth knowing.

2015-10-15

prayer 4 a mate named Greg, ... and 4 his mate, me.

God please free your son Greg,
from the Evil one's schemes,
so he won't have to beg
to fulfill all those dreams.

Not beg from "lower downs"
-just go straight to the top
who's over all us clowns;
then, maybe he'll not stop...#

And while you're helping him,
please don't forget ol' me.
But now I see that whim
is SILLY as can be;

your goodnesses extend
over all bound-ar-ies,
such that my life might end
from too much good to me.

But it's also now true
I'm in love here with you
and I so need you too,
when I forget, THAT's blue...

# cf Jesus story to teach us "to always pray and not give up" Lk18:

2015-10-11

God's will seems good, full fill as should!

In every situation I give thanks, I Rejoice and continue to pray for this is Gods will for me. 1Thessalonians 5:16-18 (PM Version)

Whatever's his will for us,
we can be sure that he will
help us (without any fuss)
to do, if we need help still.

Thank you, to our Father God
who thinks ahead, with good plans,
and is glad to give his nod
to requests from his children.

Thanks as well to our brother -
the one called Second Adarm-
we want him and no other
to lead us out of this Harm.

And thanks to Holy Spirit,
the mother of Life and Breath
loving voice, now I hear it.
Raising up Life, killing Death!

Amen.

2015-10-09

feeling off.. track..

God, I am left "high and dry";
feel like a loser who's lost,
have I got side-tracked, or sly-
-ly got stricken, then (got) tossed

off the scent I was foll'wing?
Seems like I've shrunken to my
small likes, I'm wallowing
in little wishes and sighs.

I was heated, complaining
for a while here with my wife.
No good way to be training
her, or myself, for real life.

Thinking of whom you christened:
"Leader of Humanity";
life with hope always glistened
from joy he knew you'd set free.

S'pose on his part, he recalled
things which you would have said
or worded to him with all
of this life interpreted;

observation of cultures,
history, and thinking it through,
watching eagles and vultures,
sparrows and turtle-doves too.

Then there were lilies, lost sheep,
coins, parties, hairs of each hid.
Gladly, I (wonderfully weep)
get back to what that man did!

2015-10-03

Hannah & Gil start(ed) marriage this day

Gilbert A. S. E. H. Walker + Hannah L. Sunderland.

Welcome to Hannah as a "God-daughter" (from a failed God-father), and now as a daughter by marriage. Thus "Hannah, welcome to the Walker family!"

This wedding has been a bit like a birth! waiting, hopeful, quiet, anticipating, cheering, celebrating! Then all the real work starts! and today has been kind of like a birthday party, hasn't it?


I'm calling the invisible, mysterious, mythical[1], creature that each human comes from, and which is being born today, a "tuman".


What's been said before,
may stand a repeat,
today will be born
a tuman complete..

Complete don't mean finished;
more "IT'S LIFE IS THERE",
which may be diminished,
but under Good's care.

Hannah and Gil    
have their wedding today.
And they both "I will",
then learn a new way.


A new way of living
letting love grow.
Hence birthday giving,
'n' some pain they'll know.

A new way of living
their flag is unfurled,
may be that they're giving
new life to the world..

don't mean a small child,
(though maybe as precious),
a tuman is wild
and with myth it meshes!

children don't start
from two adults you see,
they come from god's heart,
and one tuman free...

A tuman survives[2]
on love for some months;
but wow it sure thrives
if it breathes more than once!

Under dreams greater;
to die to our dreams,
and trust our creator
wherever that leads.

That's Jesus' teaching
from which these two start;
this tuman is reaching
right into God's heart..

not just his mind, though
think that will come too,
as they learn how loves go
and what loves will do.

My myth maybe misses
a real thing or two.
Real Miss become Mrs.
Walker; we welcome you!

[1]  mythical; not in a put-down sense of simply an un-historical tale, but in the anthropological sense of a story that carries meaning for us.
[2] one may not survive for lack of bread & water, but one may also not survive for lack of Oxygen.

2015-10-01

Will we? Won't we?

God, we love you too.
You are very good;
or good's very you.
How to think as should

the ba-bies of a
God like you; oh Love
(who loves this creature),
Wisdom from above

who sent wise teach-ers
whose students are lambs,
(children) with features
of the great I AM's,

who is their "Abba",
who they kiss "Good night",
Boogeyman Stopper,
bigger than their fright!

Please help us to show
your grace reflected
in our "Yes" and "No"
to those, respected.

Amen/Yes/Amen.
He's the "Yes" of God.
Yes you are, the Man.
God gave you the nod!

And we smile with God -
Wow, the one you picked,
is the only bod,
though his hair ain't slicked.