How am I?

I am still incredibly looked after.

There are other explanations in terms of power, controll, and self-interest, all of which I reject as coming from truncated world-views, too puny & simplistic (incomplete & uncreative) to be taken seriously let alone joyfully.?

I think of, & see/picture the beautiful gifts of family, friendship, love, prayer, time, conversation, beauty, connection, as best explained by the presence of redeeming love in the world. This breaking down, falling apart, temporary, cursed (because it's gods gave themselves to live under the curse of sin) world; but also the nascent, groaning, in the womb-about-to-be-born, world of God's dreaming...

Redeeming Love, present in it all, "with us".
Redeeming Love, the present in it all, "with us".

Emmanuel,
Hallelujah!
Marana'tha!
Amen+!

+the last 4 words are words taken directly from Hebrew or Aramaic, they mean respectively something like: "God is with us", "praise to Yahweh", "please come Lord!", "That's it!/So be it./Yes!"