I wanna be with-ah you..

I   wanna   be     with-ah   you..
                           with-ah you..
                                       all of this day!
I'd rather have a biff from you..
                           biff from you..
                           than have you go away!
You're not only my friend,
you're not only my love,
you're not only my god,
you're all of the above!!

...

Come look at storytelling and Jesus with us!

Yes-sure. Let's have a squiz.
God help us cheat off Jesus.
We love THE WAY he is.
And, we're glad he sees us,
and doesn't run away;
but comes close, and frees us. 
We want him every day!
We want to be a herald
in the same way that he was
like a brilliant emerald
or a honey-rose topaz
shines the light of sun-star
in flashes and in hues.
Stories, were a feature,
and often what he used.
Oh to be a teacher
like Yeshua passed on news!

Praying 4 U, hope U R well...

Yes I am quite well
looked after by one,
who, by his own "smell",
is pure as the sun,

fresh as a daisy
(a pantomime star),
with fragrance of life,
that blows from afar.

Yes I am quite well
provided for  thus
far  as I can tell:
He really loves us.

And as I recall
these things I know well,
I'd rather be small
an' with him, in hell,

than live in heaven
without Yeshua.
I'll guard 'gainst leaven,
and be where You are,

if, God, you will help
my resolve, so frail,
such is this young whelp,
yet your holy grail

carries your good wines,
just as a cup holds
the drink that entwines,
& keeps bods with souls.

A brother prayed for us in our weakness:

Thank you dear brother.
God is doing well
his work: another
family-loving-"spell"

of people growing
Love, against the hell
of puffy  "knowing";
His life, that can tell,

lives to tell the tale
to others who hear.
Relationships sail
over seas of fear,

and come home at last
where there's welcome smiles
and there's great repast,
against all the miles

(or kilometers)
covered all the while
we keep no debtors
with no tricks and guile,

except the one debt
which we have to all
since He "lost his bet"
and his Nard was poured..

Oh, may it not be
wasted here on me,
in my responding
I will learn from him

who asked "Why do you
bother her she's done
a very fine, be-au-
-ti-ful thing 'n' won

a name that's loyal,
among all who've come,
it may really smell,
but smells of that One!

Your prayers were incense,
that our Father smelt,
and gave us a sense
of a tightening belt...

before you'd do things
(kneel, or walk, or run),
hold or eschew things
to bring a "lost son".

Thank you too Father
for your pro-tection;
nothing I'd rather
than your affection..

sometimes through others,
other times just stuff;
fam'ly & brothers
and times that are tough,

that he predicted,
must come since he's true,
not derelicted.
Glad my bro is you!

A response to a daughter's response...

Hallelujah! I agree
I do believe he's making me
Through the tiresome stuff of life
I'm learning to still trust in strife

For through the sorrow and the pain
he has a way of bringing gain
He has a way of molding me
Though I would shudder, moan and plead

That he would set a lower goal
Than making me completely whole
But he will cease at nothing less
Than his enchanting righteousness

And thank the Lord he's gentle too
He knows that to be born anew
I'll need to fail more times than few
Hallelujah hallelu

How am I doin'?

Needing God no less,
sometimes feeling flat,
or else in a mess.
Learning to be F.A.T.*

I'm glad Jesus came,
taught us to respond,
took himself our blame,
takes us to beyond..

way beyond this life
of bios, on earth,
even in his strife,
it's more like a birth.

Well of course, a dead
corpse is needed too,
but only, he said,
to be raised anew!

Hallei, Halleilu!
PLW

*F.A.T. <= Faithful Available Teachable

Hey, please pray for us in our weakness

Yeh, please pray for us in our weakness..

I (& Katrina) are here in Orange. God has been working quietly & solidly. Though, increasingly (we see now) over the last few days, & culminating with today, I (& Katrina) feel frazzled, grumpy, crotchety and "on the edge". A few mistakes, a failure or two in study and other things, & inadequacies in mental ability, and possible-changes-in-schedule etc (uncertainties) may be seen as the cause, but it also coincides with God working quietly & wonderfully in us & though us, it does feel like we are on the cusp of something important in terms of simple obedience and seeing God's kingdom advancing, so I imagine that we'll need refining & testing to hep us to be able to co-operate with God properly, and I also imagine that the "weevil one" will not be happy and will try to white-ant/ undo God's good work in us and through us. Please pray with us to look at and listen to the Lord Jesus and learn to confidently (for the sake of his kingdom, not to prove our prowess, or to feed the traitorous show-offy-ness lurking in us) walk on water at his command to come!

And we echo back to him... (Maranatha!) Come Lord - Jesus!

God please do your thing!

Your thing mightn't look

(or feel) quite like "bling",

but we see you took

such measures to bring

our names to your book

and make our hearts sing,

use your shepherd's crook!

Maybe we'll feel "caught"

when you lift us up.

You're the one who bought

us with shepherd's blood.

So we say, "Please do

what you think is best.

Help us please though too

to trust and to rest

in you, who has proved

your own self to be

faithful, and still moved

by your own pity.

Oh, we thank you, God.

Thank you for: sending

Jesus who has trod

this way, and rending

the curtain between

you and us in him

who cleans us with "steam"/

"spirit-breath", from sin, 

...........................to win, 

..........................begin,

.........................amen!

a dear sister is sick

Yes, please dear God:
give your great grace
so, as she's trod
paths to this place,
she will move on
and know your face
smiles at respon-
-ses Hannah makes,
as a true son,
or daughter wakes
when the night's done,
'n-does what it takes.
Parent's love's 'won',
their love's embraced!
Thus may sweet "Hun",
whose name means "Grace",
be smiled upon,
'n "see" your face.
Amen.

GOD A LIGHT

Give your daughter

strength to slaughter

"cool" persona

that would own herto live the while
as your small child.

open to your
vistas' grandeur,
and to the pain
(that comes of care
for what's not there)
of loving slain

folk, who do not
prop-ly have what
grows of living
things for-giving
to be the link
for folk who think
that God's as lame
as those who claim
him for their base
of power in place
of list'nin' to
what comes from you!
Amen.

Thinking of some Men who are learning to be fathers...

Oh God you're good

and we are blown

away, and should

now say "You've shown

Yourself to be

Over The Top,

and now we see

You'll never stop!

Oh my, oh our

both joy and bliss

will be quite sour

compared to His

of whom we're boys;

for as John saith

"No greater joys"...

(in life or death(?)

- may sound absurd)

“can come our way

than when we've heard

our children (pray

and) walk in light”,

though here in dark,

not to be fright-

ened, sing as Lark

or bird that sings

before the sun

rises on wings;

so quite undone

is the terror

of boogey man

who has his pow'r

(well what he can)

from our own fears

of what's unknown.

We trust your years,

and your full-blown

Love, mercy, care

and grief as well,

to fully share

your quite un-Hell.

A quick response 2a brother, ........................................ who draws us on 'stead o' smother-.................................. -ing our courage, helps us think ------------------------------------- o' LIFE that's large. To that we'll drink!

Blessings from        THE I AM
be upon                   you good man.
Good because,        His good friend.
That's the Laws       'fmice and men,
it's not what            (facts) you know,
it's who's got           you 'ntheir phone;
who can say            that they've known
you today                and you've shown
friendship (which    is two-ways).
"LIFE's a bitch"         one bloke says,
but once you've       met that LIFE,
(not to "prove"        ourself, in strife),
you know HE's         got a face,
a name Jes-            -us, and grace,
grace that's good,    merciful
more than "should", per - son - al!