Marty @ 40 yrs.

Marty what's on?
What's going down?
I know there's lots on
I don't see you frown.
Forty years rolled
but seemed just like ten
the last twenty told
of Uni, family, and friends
Disciples that arrived
with whom you shared your life,
Family that's thrived:
four kids and a wife.
You've bin a good friend
right through the years
as our way we wend
with gladness, sadness, and cheers!
Cheers to our big brother
who's teaching us to
live for God and the other
as love wants us to do.
(1 Dec 2002 AD)

Marty Watson-Nifty, Fifty.

No longer a pup.
Yeah? What's goin' DOWN?
Well, it's comin' UP!
Now Marty don't frown.
About to take OFF
So, Marty What's ON?
Ian says "That's unreal".
So how do U feel?
That's half a century,
and still going strong -
not on the bench. He
has played like a song!
FIF-ty whole ye-ars
he's lived on this earth
And still it appears
what he's really worth.
If you are with me,
then please raise your beer
Let's hear from these blokes
right here, a small* cheer..
MARTY

* Why small, instead of great? As I recall, there were people sleeping or something, that we had to be quiet for...8Dec2012AD

Prioritization, Comodification, Love, & Life!

When God is not my Number One,
what have I got? What has begun?
A World of rot, so “on the run”
that it is “shot”! It’s lost it’s sun! -
- its “days” are not; and “years” undone;
no warmth, it’s lot; gravity’s spun..
..off, with light’s spot. No future fun,
if God is not my Number One!

Not just “Number”, like a machine,
“Cool cucumber” know what I mean,
faking slumber, (not very keen).
Like the Rhumba, em-passion-ing,
or child’s slumber, very trusting.
I’m not his “jumbu- ck”, he’s shearing;
neither his “lumber”; he does “Naming”,
not just “Number”, like a machine!

Number One Love. - What God must be!
Born from above humanity,
“hand in a glove”- is “he” in “we”.
Since he is love he’ll act (in me),
he won’t just shove, but make me free
to do what cov- -ers a multi-
-tude of sins’ stuff, and to pay the
price to dis-cov- -er & set free.

To a sister - in the Messiah

How does it feel Shell-
to be fifty one?
Feel like an old gell?
Or still too much fun?

Truth 'bout "Feelings" said:
"They ain't the whole deal";
but truly they've led
folk,  to   see more real:

We're over the hill,
and now running down.
Let's enjoy our fill,
not pout, cry, or frown..

'bout what we CAN'T do -
when there's stuff we can.
I'd like to thank you,
your kids, & your man...

..for choosing to live
(with me) in God's rooms,
& helping my "sieve" *
remember the blooms..

The bloomin' flowers,
with stories & pic's.
Bodies lose powers,
but new ones are fixed!

And thanx Creator!
-of this here old earth!
- for all that's greater
since Yeshua's birth.
XXOO Paul.
* I've got a memory like a ..., like a ... (what is that thing, like a collander ?)

Mary Christmas...

Merry Christmas! (version 1)

Did you know that Christmas celebrations are birthday celebrations?
I think most people don’t, or they’ve forgotten. One step further, is to remember the mum.
Mary Christmas! Let me remind you about her.

What made Mary merry on that first Christmas?

Creator’s promise came true, what his messenger spoke,

“A child will come from you with no human father”.

What made Mary merry on that first Christmas?

When her time had come,

& her body broke,

first child was born

to Joseph’s missus.

What made Mary merry on that first Christmas?

The starlight broke through,

world’s story uncloaked

seen by the few

who kept awake, & a wild

What made Mary merry on that first Christmas?

Sky showed creator’s glory

seen by ordinary folk

amazed at the shepherd’s story

& the way they found the child.

What made Mary merry on that first Christmas?

Mary she mused

& something awoke

she recalled all this news

and thought deeply about it.

What made Mary merry on that first Christmas?

So Merry Christmas

Mary Christmas.

Merry Christmas

Mary Christmas.

“Don’t deny in the dark what you’ve seen in the light.”
Mary’s remembrance;        that’s what linked her with her past

& gave her presence for the future.

Luke 2:19: Mary remembered all these things she heard them saying, & thought deeply about them.

"The Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in it's k'nuff"# Malachi 4:2

May he be praised
- who gives us light!
That's he who raised
the Sun, of Right -

- with healing in
what falls around #
- it's garment's hem,-
-light rays that bound!

Can't thank enough
he who lets us
in tumbling, rough,
manner, though dust,

approach and "steal"
his healing power.
And yet calls "Who
touched me, just now?"

And listens while
our story comes,
calls us his "Child",
and scatters crumbs...

Not just some crusts,
but daily breath,.
not "gold" that rusts,
LIFE against death.

# the Hebrew Word "k'nuff" denotes either "wings" (thus figuratively "rays"?), or "hem" of a prayer shawl, onto which the tastles (tzi tzi) were to be sewn (Leviticus_:_).

Please pray for us
to listen well
(to God, and his
council), to smell..

..like him, to voice
the wisdom from
above in choice,
and plan (and "bomb")!

God's bods

God we join with Tim, praying

for his mate Thom, & brother

Dan, and his girl-friend Katlyn;

that their love for you smother

(and also give them ideas

to pull up) things that pull down,

that won't grow (through the years)

responses to your Love - all round.

Thanks for your life and your friend-

-ship growing in these folk now.

May it never, ever end,

and also deepen somehow.

Please also give our sister

Barbara, on that Blayney farm,

all your grace, & too wisdom,

to trust your voice, & your arm.

Amen.