2026-05-04

EMOTIONS (as a result of our knowledge)...


..can smudge*, or BEAR WITNESS TO* KHESED-love’s actional communications.



To bear witness is not just to speak words

of language made by Hemisphere of brain 

that’s left (when pointing forward) - even birds

and reptiles, mammals might have to refrain


from learning just from sound-wave symbols when

they’re round about, and learn from acts, in fact

some things are best passed down the line again

by dramatised responses. For a pact


can be made that is binding, without words, 

though understanding’s necessary still.

And honour, glory can be seen, or heard

somehow by oft repeated acts that will


display the choices of a life well lived*.

It might be just the lack of fear, or else

the overbearing way all else is sieved,

and seen in light of threats perceived from hell’s


capacity to taint the whole of life,

and lead to accusations and the like,

instead of questions, which can, like a knife,

cut out the immaturity and hike


on further than the accusations could

go, yet don’t need accuse at all, they leave

that for the ones who answering claim good-

ness at their beck and call. And on their sleeve


they wear emotions, and as humans would

be, they are vuln’rable to claiming judge-

-ment as their right, which may be well ‘n’ good,

when teamed with Hemisphere that’s right. No fudge.




Footnotes
e* -  interesting little phrase (“εἰς μαρτύριον αὐτοῖς”=“to bear witness to them”) seen in two scenes showing Jesus’ intentions - at least one (the first citation) where his hopes were un-realised (or "smudged"), the second referred to some time in the future (where Jesus’ hopes might be either fulfilled or not fulfilled): Mark 1:42-45 esp v.44;  Mark 13:9-11,esp v.9.
o* - see footnote above - second citation)
d* - Rom 2:7



2026-05-02

Exploring

(a culturally "Jewish" lifestyle..)



As we left, after sharing an evening last night, my new Jewish friend talked about an old fellow he knew in Sydney (whom he was probably  going to the birthday party of next weekend) who was about (or over) 80yrs, very sprightly, and creative, when he gets knocked over he gets going again, it’s like he is a model of persistence,  innovation and creativity in his approach to life, and he has a personal trainer. That got me thinking later the next morning about how good it could be to have a personal trainer..


How helpful the gymn has been for me, and how I've been kept at it. It’s almost like each person in our LTG has “a personal trainer” (or small group trainer) in the others, and my times in the nights and mornings with my heavenly father, where he acts as a personal trainer for me. Then I realised that I HAVE A PERSONAL TRAINER ALREADY! And therefore I understand the goodness of it - and the need for manifesting this principle on Earth (it’s not, “So I don’t need one.”) because it’s “as in heaven so on Earth” [seen in Noah’s experience of building the ark (to make it like the one God had already shown him - in principle, in plan, in a vision of the mind), and in Moses’ experience of building the tabernacle (where it was to be made like the one God had shown him already*), and Jesus’ teaching in answer to the request (of his talmudim) to teach them to pray, and Jesus’ personal practice of going away in the busiest times (e.g.Mark 1:21-39) to be alone with the creative KHESED-love that made the Universe, (not as our flat materialistic or monistic view of it communicates in that word “Universe”; but) as is communicated in the title  “the heavens and the earth” (Gen 1&2) . It almost looks to me like he was modelling letting that creative KHESED-love be his personal trainer!


An appreciation of culture, meant as a support for the growth of Human beings to maturity, in security, like the scaffolding around a building while it’s being built (till it is built). Then the disassembly of it and storage of the scaffold - till a new building needs to be built.


This (along with a general journey I have been on*)  made me want to understand “Jewishness” for its capacity to perform a beautiful and actual scaffold-making function. 

  • as seen in the extraordinary lives of this Jewish couple, who are only the second, third, or fourth Jewish people I have personally met, & started to get to know, who stand out, and then later we find out that they have a Jewish heritage. 

  • As seen in the extraordinary life of my master, boss, Lord, Anointed Leader, Yeshua [who grew up as a Galilean-village Jewish builder, in the days when Israel was seen as (maybe a recalcitrant) part of the Roman Empire].



Footnotes

y* - Ai generated response on 02/05/2026: According to the Book of Exodus, Moses constructed the tabernacle (or Tent of Meeting) with meticulous detail, strictly following a divine blueprint or "pattern" (\(tabniyth\)) shown to him by God on Mount Sinai. This instruction, repeated seven times, ensured that the portable sanctuary exactly mirrored the heavenly reality intended to house God’s presence among the Israelites. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The Divine Pattern Revealed
  • The Vision: Moses spent 40 days and nights on the mountain receiving the revelation, seeing not just a verbal description but a detailed model or "vision" of the sanctuary and its furnishings.
  • The Command: God commanded, "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain" (Exodus 25:40; Hebrews 8:5).
  • A Heavenly Copy: The earthly tabernacle was a "copy and shadow" of the true sanctuary in heaven. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
n* - in my own teaching & learning to understand ancient “occasional texts” (like the Judaeo Christian Scriptures) firstly (though not only) via the Historical, Grammatical, Cultural Hermeneutic with books like “How to read the Bible for all it’s Worth”, (with its recognition of History, Grammar, Culture, & Genre, & Louis Tverberg’s 3  books: “Sitting at the feet of/ Walking in the Dust of/ Reading the Bible with … Rabbi Jesus” with their recognition of Culture]


2026-04-28

Busy life

 

..and learning..


God bless this man, your son, and father of

the children you have given them so far.

And give your grace to raise them to know love,

experience your khesed  where they are!




2026-04-24

a friend goes in


for heart surgery..



Lord, you're the one who gave us hearts of flesh.

We want them to beat right in time with yours.

To see the good around, and get enmeshed

in multiplying it in time, because


that's what you said to do, and your good word

is food and drink to us, the way to life

that's worth the living. But we've also heard

of your great grief* endured, 'coz of your "wife*".


We want to enter into joy and grief

in company with you who bears them both.

Your company is what brings our relief.

And also leads us on - to all our growth!



Lord we love you too.

Footnotes
f* - “The Lord saw that the wickedness of humans was great in the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually. [6] And the Lord was sorry that he had made humans on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.”(Genesis 6:5-6 NRSVUE)
e* - God’s people are sometimes (metaphorically?) spoken of as his “children” taking on the family “trade”, and at other times they are (oddly, to our ears) spoken of as his “wife” (Isaiah 54:5-10; 62:5, Ezekiel 16), whom he wants to share life with intimately and who is bound by covenant to share life and focus and the creative purposes of YHWH, Creative Love himself …


the two handed approach


(On the one hand…, On the other…)



Oh God, I feel embarrassed about us,

the way we are so programed, so to speak,

& though we are in charge of Earth, we're dust.

I feel two kinds of shame: So strong! So weak!


And now I think a bit more (while in love),

I’m being led by you to understand,

stand under your authority above

what you have put me over, as you planned!


Some shame can come from immaturity

that’s right and proper, for that’s how all growth

must happen on this Earth, where limits be.

But some’s from wasting, slackness, even both.


And forward way that’s good today, for all

is “truth to tell” - to think! to say! as small,

as well as big, let human mind not fall

in one rut or the other. But stand tall*.


And be the little toddler that I am!

Both showing off my skills (and prowess too);

and laughing at myself as a “big man”

who’s “free*”, but glad to be a person who


is growing in a family who loves,

so here I need to stand under my Dad 

& Mum, and learn from hand that doesn’t shove

so much as lead and draw me on a tad…


I own my shame, then name the kind I see.

Then in the presence of the God of all,

I laugh, and smile, repent, forgiven be!

Move on, both kneeling down, AND standing tall.



Footnotes
l* - “Trust in the LORD with all your heart. Never rely on what you think you know. Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts. Never say anything that isn't true. Have nothing to do with lies and misleading words. Look straight ahead with honest confidence; don't hang your head in shame. Plan carefully what you do, and whatever you do will turn out right. Avoid evil and walk straight ahead. Don't go one step off the right way.” (Proverbs 3:5, 23-27 GNBUK)
e* - my three year old grandson sometimes talks of his father and grandfathers as each being “a big man” compared to himself as much smaller, but in the next breath he will talk of himself as so much bigger and more grown up than the babies around him, because now he is a “big man” who’s “free*”


2026-04-23

renovating

downstairs



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.



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”.



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


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.



2026-04-21

The greatest


of these is*…



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!




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.


2026-04-19

love's rôle with the punches


respecting..


..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?



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.



Love Xx Oo



2026-04-16

help comes


(from the Lord…..*)



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.




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)




2026-04-13

..renew a right..


(spirit within me*)..




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*”.




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.. .

2026-04-10

Look up


(to Jesus*)



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!



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)




2026-04-09

Holding his hand


(into the unknown)




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!




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.