The SEER's call to the STUDENT [In the ancient Hebrew way of life & world-view]

Sharon put this bit of scripture to a tune from "Les Miserables", thus:

Proverbs 2 v 1-5        [Sharon Watkins Sings]
http://goo.gl/9esfWo

1 My son, if you accept my words

     and if you store up my commands,

2 turning your ear to what is wise

     and applying your heart to understand—

3 And if you call out for insight

     and cry aloud for understanding,

4 and if you look for it as for silver

     and search for it as for some hidden treasure,

5 then you will understand

         the fear of the Lord

 and you’ll be sure to find

         the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 2 v 1-5       [Paul Walker with notes on piano]
http://goo.gl/IUzv8a

THANK YOU LORD...

Thank you Lord for wife,
thank you Lord for love,
thank you Lord that in all strife
your joy’s on above…

Thank you Oh my love!

Thanks Lord for this body
thanks Lord for those smiles,
(sometimes they seem shody)
it helps us move the miles.

Lord I like your style(s)!

Thank you Lord that in

all of this-here bin

you came here to win

yet felt our chagrin.

You took out the bin!

Thanks Lord that you came

(& you bore my shame)

you came here to fight

for us, for what is right.

I think you’re outta sight.

Thanks Lord that your hand

fits in me like a glove.

I begin to understand

why your “push” ain’t a “shove”.

Thank you oh my Love!

Thanks Lord for these friends,

for all of their true smiles,

though all of these days have ends

they help us move the miles.

Lord I like your style(s)!

Thanks Lord for Shalom,

thanks Lord for Hesed,

thanks Lord that whatever comes,

Joy’s back from the dead…

Thank you oh my head!

this 'ol' life gig

..I mean there is a sense
in which we live alone,
but come through life at length
to know, as we are known.

Not just "to hear as we are heard",
nor only "see, as we are seen",
but with our every spoken word,
to hide, or show, what we have been.

To be known, not just "no-when"
is to g ᘡ t h er / “waste” our thyme,
bring from our secret garden
what dain't even seem to rhyme,

and let the others listen,
share with us this ’ol’ life gig,
what does & doesn't glisten
both old & new, small & big!

(continued in Draft 4 Me... )

These hold our "sense of humour",
and bring a breadth to this life
that's more than just a rumour;
a shared fun, though also strife.

So, maybe know the others well,
who listen and share life with us
as we are know by “who can tell”
with love’s designs & too, love’s fuss!

This "culture" plumbs the depth
of life’s every minute;
& once we’ve “made our bed”,
then we must lie in it!

3. Each of our Lives are Stories, with a beginning, middleing, and ending. Who are the receivers of our stories? ... this 'ol' life gig...

...I mean there is a sense
in which we live alone,
but come through life at length
to know, as we are known.

Not just "to hear as we are heard",
nor only "see, as we are seen",
but with our every spoken word,
to hide, or show, what we have been.

To be this kind of "no-when",
we have to have (and spend) thyme,
bring from our secret garden
what dain't even seem to rhyme,

and let the others listen,
share with us this 'ol' life gig,
what does and doesn't glisten,
both old & new, small & big!...

2. Stories are the containers for holding (& transferring) meaning, and change which means something.

a) from a magazine called "Dumbo Feather" (which is an allusion you would understand if you've TAKEN IN THE STORY OF Dumbo, and could not guess if you haven't). It's subtitle is: PASSION, PURPOSE, COMMUNITY. CONVERSATIONS WITH EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE.

we have an interview with Jane Goodall (a primatologist, who lived with chimpanzees for 25 years), who is passionate about looking after this world & the animals we seem to "have charge of", to learn to live up to that responsibility well.

For her that means we have to change the way we do things, AND HELP OTHERS CHANGE TOO. In passing she comments on CHANGING OUR MINDSETS, seeing that our words are used to craft stories that bring hope, and not letting words (which are meant to be ways of communication to enable life at a bigger, deeper level, with added dimensions) actually stop awe & understanding :

b) the story of a new day starts out for a young man at home, just before he heads off to school; he sits still for a friend to practice his drawing:

c) then on the way home from Newcastle (Newey, as she is affectionately called by those who love her), I saw this in a coffee shop:

1. Words can help us connect meanings from more than one field of knowledge (and maintain a 3D perception to life).