renovating

downstairs

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Please help, Lord of the heavens and the earth,

for me as builder of a dwelling place,

to understand our needs and what they’re worth

to value truly, minimise disgrace.

In working with the rules of this good land

& honouring our government’s job here,

to help us live responsibly, and stand

up on our legs, and not to just appear

that way, but have in fact, a good impact

on this world, as environment and web,

as ecosystem, so in word and act

we’ll use authority we have to tread

lightly, where we must, while serving all

with sense of that proportion which is tuned

to outcomes for the whole she-bang, not small-

ly thinking just to minimise our wound.

So using the resources of your world, 

and using our own income as He* would,

to value add in this place we’ve been hurled,

and make this whole adventure pretty good

for serving all the humans you put here,

to serve this Earth to bring your will as is

the case in heaven, as it does appear

from what he said to ask in prayer of his..

his teaching of his children to enact

the kind of life that manifests on Earth

the life which your eternal love has tracked

down here where we have all had our first birth.

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Footnotes

e* - He, being the model or leader of humanity, and of Manhood, the Christ or Messiah of God, Jesus of Nazareth., who was by trade, a builder (before he was a Teacher, then said as Father of a new people of God, a new Israel, “I will build my ekklesia”.

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asked us to pray...

Please God do your good thing for my friend there,

and help him get ahead a bit today.

Then for his healing, we ask you to care

for him, and keep him ev'ry other way.

Amen.

grace

Sleeping and waking affected by yapping dog

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God, you sent those folk next to hell ’n we..

We know you love their neighbour, and her kids.

We pray for insight, creativity,

and grace from your own spirit under lids.

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The greatest

of these is*…

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So, I can either take for granted gifts

you’ve given me like beating heart, and chest

that breathes involuntarily to lift

“cells” up to function as a human, best

seen in that model human - Jesus Christ,

whom God has chosen as the leader of

Humanity. His life and death sufficed

to  show, and pique our appetite for love.

The fight is waged on many fronts just now,

and hatred, or just boredom’s love-lack ways

will do all that it can to break and bow

us at its feet, as though that then displays

the winning of the war it wants to wage

to beat another “ideology”;

for it cannot endure, on the same page

another getting honour or glory.

But he was “just a builder” from that town

on cliff-side, where things were precarious

and needed good foundations, and a frown

of thought to stand things up on various

odd angles against gravity’s down-pull..

And humans in His story are concerned

to let their “Yes”, have meaning, be faithful

to their own word, and God’s good that they’ve learned.

They’re learning to give place to feelings and

God's given, programed, built-in gifts/ desires,

but also to discern an order planned

to give ascendancy to KHESED’s* fires!

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Footnotes

is* - after considering, faith, and hope, Jesus’ apostle (=Ambassador) Paul says this famous statement about the kind of love demonstrated by God, throughout his creation, but most fully in Christ: “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”(1 Corinthians 13:13)

’s* - KHESED is the Hebrew word for covenant love, the kind of love that is not coerced, that reigns itself, and makes other good things up, creates to simply keep its own word, to back its own word up with action in this world.  Thus it is variously translated "faithful love, loving-kindness, steadfast love... etc", a high love, different to the tawdry self-serving love we are left with once we live disconnected from the eternal source of such love.

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love's rôle with the punches

respecting..

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..sorry to have missed your call. … Will try to ring back when I get a chance.

How are you going/ staying?

Any changes?

How is hubby coping?

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God, please help Sis. ta speak the truth in love, 

and see your image in those round about

her, as she loves your image from above,

formed in her staying/ going  in & out.

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Love Xx Oo

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help comes

(from the Lord…..*)

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How do I lead in loving? If that’s what

a husband’s job is under God’s world-view.

I just saw two things i could do a lot

more over coming weeks please help me do

them. Scared, I am. For I see others might

just misinterpret one of them as me

reverting to old ways of holding tight-

-ly to control. And so I let her free.

But afterwards she felt I didn’t care

for her. Maybe ‘coz others got my gaze:

my focus, or my time. Folk  who came where

I was. I feel prejudged, and caught these days.

Just like machines and animals might fight.

No malice, and no bragging. Just “They won.”

Or lost. They act as though they’re in the right,

some options do not show, if not begun.

But once begun, they hardly can be hid-

den, lion’s lair is where it wants to tear

to pieces and eat up each tiny bit.

Love wins if it does.. KNOW that God is ne’er

absent. ’Coz he’s “near” but will not man-..

man-ip-ul-ate or pressure those he loves.

He’ll ask the questions love asks - if it can.

And if it can’t it might enact. No shoves!

Oh God I’m such a baby at that love.

I now recall that you are here, with me.

My help comes from the Lord. Comes “from above”.

Your vantage point allows that more you see.

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Footnotes

.* - “I look to the mountains. Where will my help come from? My help will come from the LORD who made heaven and earth...” (Psalm 121:1-2)

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..renew a right..

(spirit within me*)..

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But if the spirit* of his son who cries 

out to YaHWeH: “my Daddy*” in his grief,

and pain, and need, discussing as he tries

to understand, while trusting GOD’s belief…

in him, and hearing God’s word spoken when

it’s breathed (on God’s own breath*) into his ear

(as dove that stays on shoulder might do when

it softly coos, or warbles, always “near*”);

& breathed on breath that breathed on prophets past

(& some got written down - though not that much),

and breathed through “mind that’s set*” as Paul at last

speaks of God’s own - responsive to his touch,

his indication, verbal, or to look

at things he “got across” to us somehow

by pointing, or associations cook-

’d up through the hist’ry of our lives to now.

A fierce wind* that blew the oceans round

at the beginning, other times exposed 

dry land beneath the water that was found 

by feet of slaves escaping unjust foes.

Another time it blew together “shaved”

dry bones of long-gone bodies and enfleshed 

an old/new people from those un-en-graved

and desecrated, for ends that were meshed

with goodness as it weaves with wisdom’s ways

a new creation under KHESED-love

which is here shown in clear enough displays

in such a way we know it’s “from above*”.

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Footnotes

me* - Psalm 51:10

it* -many languages [& both Hebrew & Greek (the primary languages used in the Judaeo-Christian scriptures) are such languages] employ one word for the concepts of “wind”, “breath”, “mindset/ attitude”, & “personal incorporeal being”. This allows their poets to play with three or four concepts with the use of only one word.

y* - “Abba” is a word from Aramaic (& Hebrew) often first spoken by children in their mother-tongue in Palestinian village life during the First Century (C.E.), as “Dadda” might be in English. Mark five times gives Jesus's actual words (or other local phrases) in Aramaic (transliterated into Greek in the text) followed by a Greek translation of the sentence, phrase, or word. This occurs with Jesus' form of address to God, in Jesus's garden prayer and is taken note of by Jesus' Ambassador (Apostle) Paul twice: Mark 14:36-41 , Rom 8:15-17, Galatians 4:5-7)

h* -many languages [& both Hebrew & Greek (the primary languages used in the Judaeo-Christian scriptures) are such languages] employ one word for the concepts of “wind”, “breath”, “mindset/ attitude”, & “personal incorporeal being”. This allows their poets to play with three or four concepts through the use of one word.

r* - working backwards… to early followers of YaHWeH it was sung: “the Lord is near to all who call on him”(Ps 145:18), & written “seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near” (Isa 55:6); to early followers of Yeshua (as YaHWeH’s representative on Earth) it was said: “For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.” (Matthew 18:20), and written: “always remember the nearness of your Lord” (Paul’s letter to the Philippians 4:5) and to recall that “ ‘the Lord’ is ‘the spirit' ” (2 Corinthians 3:16-18)

et* - Galatians 5:18, 25; Romans 8:5-6

d* -many languages [& both Hebrew & Greek (the primary languages used in the Judaeo-Christian scriptures) are such languages] employ one word for the concepts of “wind”, “breath”, “mindset/ attitude”, & “personal incorporeal being”. This allows their poets to play with three or four concepts by the use of one word.

ve* - the phrase “..from above” is played with by poets in scripture that see this phrase as a referent to the source and origin of life.., love.., wisdom.., and insight- giving- experience.., or every good gift.. .

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Look up

(to Jesus*)

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I’m learning much by looking more at my

young grandson who is three years old just now.

He’s confident and bois-ter-ous. He’ll try.

Determined to grow, have a shot, know how.

While I feel more retiring, past my date.

And stuck in habits. Voice says: “Just give up”.

But I am hearing you. That’s not my fate!

You see me, as I see that tiny “pup”.

You're confident (and boisterous). You’ll try.

Determined to grow me. You’ll have a shot!

And since you will persist, then by.., and by…,

I’ll grow, and know, and learn how, why, and what…

The partnership is poss-ib-il-it-ies. 

Alone, my feelings of despair prove true!

That dead-end way finds only what it sees.

It seize-s not, nor adventures with you.

And I will knuckle under your good will

for me, because you think about what’s good

’n’ true, for all that is, and will until

it comes to be, existent. Now I could

as well, ‘coz all inertia’s lost its sting.

You’ve led the way, and made available

Christ’s life-blood with its  antibodies brings

it's antivenom unassailable.

That blood is poisonous to poisons round

because it is the source of life and health.

One life, a portal bringing heaven down

to Earth, & Earth to heavens. Health & wealth!

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Footnotes

s* - and listen to his word through stories like this: 

“So Jesus called a child, made him stand in front of them, ³and said, “I assure you that unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven. ⁴The greatest in the Kingdom of heaven is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child. ⁵And whoever welcomes in my name one such child as this, welcomes me.” (Matthew 18:2-5 GNBUK)

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Holding his hand

(into the unknown)

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There is a sense in which there’s much of God 

I have no clue about. I just don’t know.

There’s much that he’s experienced, a lot

in fact for me to learn from “tell and show”.

And sometimes diff’rent cultures may have some..

some diff’rent edges on aspects of the..

the culture of eternity that’s come

down close enough for us to touch and see

and learn some diff’rent ways of acting out ..

it’s culture that gives boundaries that make

for more of that creative love that’ll shout

or whisper to bring understanding 's slake-

-king of our thirst for knowledge which is best 

kept centred on my father’s will, and self

and when the task he gives me is a test

for everyone to see and know my health

in order to join in and work for good..

good purposes which I must learn (not hate!)

in rote ways, how to join in as I should

if I were not to stand out but relate

and then myself be understood as well.

For words aren’t all, but then God’s Word in past,

is what has come and saves us from the hell

we bring when we live our will first not last.

My grandson is my helper here today*.

He mirrored my responses as I’ve done.

He helped me see from distance what I say

and do. Thank you, my three-year-old grandson!

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y* - I only understand about 50-80% of my grandson’s speech sometimes. Though he will boldly continue speaking loud and clear. “G” sounds come out as “D” sounds. Etc. I have to very carefully make it a fun game and not overdo it. For learning any culture is arbitrary, and his feedback loop is lacking with close family members getting >90% of his words. He can quickly lose motivation. Here,  I see me in him. Thank you for helping me see myself grandson.

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Into the unknown

(holding his hand)

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I am at peace, with knowing you yourself,

not just an understanding of some facts* -

capacity to model on a shelf

the thoughts and words and hopes and all the acts

of that Creative Love that gives language

as gift to help us model and to learn

and not be too upset if at this stage

of life our language still falls short, no spearn-

-ing of this gift because it’s not as great

as who gave it. I’m thankful for help on

the Way he walked, as small child in the state

of toddler hand-in-hand. His light upon

this small world where the  cosmos was lit up

by that one visit as a man who’s shown

us all a solid prophet interrup-

-ting all the plans of mice and men alone.

For we were never just another one. 

We’re made more like a Left brain hemisphere

that’s meant to work in tandem, but as “son”

in terms of who’s the boss. The Right is clear-

-ly in Authority, and this must be, 

for only it connects us to the world

that’s larger round about us. And now HE

has lived it out and called us to be hurled

out as ambassadors of this new/ old-

-est way of living which does not need food

& drink for that’s internally resolved

by HIS resources inside. We’ve been clued*!

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Footnotes

s* - Psalm 131

d* - “These women looked after him from their own resources”. (Luke 8:2-3); and he said “take, eat. Share among yourselves.” (Three gospels) “unless you eat.., & drink… you have no life in you” (John); “the words I have spoken to you are spirit and truth” (John); “who comes to me...rivers of living water will be springing up within them.” (John) a counsellor… this he spoke of the spirit who had not yet been given (?); "Our people must learn to spend their time doing good, in order to provide for real needs; they should not live useless lives." (Titus 3:14 GNBUK); "I have shown you in all things that by working hard in this way we must help the weak, remembering the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, ‘There is more happiness in giving than in receiving.’ ”(Acts 20:35 GNBUK)

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in Canberra (ACT)

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God help your son to be a conduit for

your love that comes to him through light and air,

through humans who have smiled on him and more,

through your own heart that he's begun to share..

completing now the circuit of your pow'r..

the power of love that may look very weak,

help him inside to choose & not go sour

to let your love out in the acts that speak...

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Jesus’s daughter,

(on the way to Jairus’ daughter)

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Dear God, our father, you who knows us well - 

we show you how we are by what we do

and ask you to help us the Truth to tell

as best as we now can. Open to you,

and your creative options to learn love..

for we are small, and weak, and immature,

and made from dust as animals here gov-

earned by instincts that are not straight and sure.

We thank you that your own creative love

was breathed into the dust that is our lives,

& if you don't give wisdom from above

then we can’t be at all like Jesus Christ.

But the distinctive thing about that man

was he could clean us up from right inside,

our motives and directives, & he can

we’ve found and know that this can’t be denied

(of course it can if we choose our own world 

but) this is what your leader came to lead

us in, wherever we are (by you) hurled

to show off small and weak light’s quite quick speed.

And so, as James learned from his big bro. then,

we’ll learn to let your love light do it's quick

and active thing within your world right when

a list’ning ear is needed. I am sick

of quickly talking, frustrating inside.

I give this sickly self to you, again.

Please heal me. I will walk, if I can’t ride

with you, or else Lord Jesus, touch your hem*.

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After a phone discussion with my daughter (who has made the second turning, to grow younger as the daughter of her father in heaven) on a set of wierd incidents that had the smell of supernatural involvement and testing to snapping point… (but that through help provided by God, and followed through with by her, DID NOT snap her, but that almost appeared to strengthen her). 

The second or third try, we gave up on the glitching phone, and decided to sing a hymn or Psalm that came to mind, where we were. This is the one that came to my mind and by this blog I am sharing it with you, daughter:

Draft 2 recording

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Footnotes

m* - Mark 5:21-37

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..Love your work!

(as witnesses of, & junior partners in it)

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Oh God we like the way you let us work

beside you as "your little helpers" and

there's no way that we ever want to shirk,

but neither to walk not "holding your hand".

It seems we're more like one-year-olds, or two-

year-olds who must refer often to you.

But this is not an immature state to

grow out of, it's the forward way for new...

new-humans in a New Creation of

the Heavens and the Earth, where we are like

left hemispheres of brains that aren't impov-

er-ished by their connection to the right...

We're very happy learning here to look

and see the things that grieve your heart in time,

and let you be our comforter who took

the burr-den out of burden, and who'll rhyme

a resurrection with creation's good

(and seven times in that process you "saw

that it was good", by letting all that could

do partnership with you, do that, and soar!)

So we would like to join up more with you.

Our chief delight is working hard beside

you, and at your direction a task to

do shopping, knocking, coffee, or to hide

away and hang out with our fam-il-y

is so delicious, a delight of life.

And we thank you for letting us just be

your offspring, vasal, friend, close as your wife.

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listening

(quickly, actively, livingly)

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So ask more questions when I feel that urge

to differ, or to incredulity;

before I let myself express to purge

the world from ignorance or foolery.

I see I'm called to follow in Christ’s wake:

ask for recalling or interpreting,

restatement, or on what basis they make

conclusions such as what I heard them bring

there to the table, metaphoric’ly,

to add to all this conversation fare.

Before I let reactions out of me, 

I need to find out more, the When? & Where?

The Who?, What? How? and Why? of what I heard.

So letting them, in stages, spell out more.

For us to clarify not “give the bird”,

unless it is that dove that came before.

The dove, the homing pigeon, Noah sent

to bring back from the larger world outside

some news from all the places that it went

in flying round about. It sussed the tide.

Or else the dove from heaven coming down

and resting on him (not just shooed away)

and being welcomed, glad to have around 

a smaller weaker one willing to stay,

and just to softly coo into his ear, 

but also send him out to suffer well,

to serve as slave to all who would appear

and come into his orbit, whom he’d tell

that simple news to freshly, and then show

it off in all the habits of his life;

like what his little brother came to know

as quite distinctive, got him into strife!

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