Now Celebrate Our Les ol' mate!

Another year
to this old Les
has come by here
I do confess

he doesn't look
much older yet,
but by the book
now you can bet

there comes a time,
a creak, and groan
not quite sublime
(like when he's mown)

when ol' bods call
to say they're on
the downward fall
to help us learn

that this ain't all.
This life is not
the final call,
or all we've got.

And soon there'll be
this ache, that pain,
that come for free
and then you'll gain

a looking to,
a bright glad hope
- body renewed,
which might help cope.

At least be glad
for what has worked,
it's not all sad,
it has not shirked.

It did the job
for good long years.
O help us God,
till he appears

to wake from sleep
our brand new bods
so thus to peep
at baby gods.

This whole earth waits
and we must too
till real mirth sates
and we see you.

When Les sees God,
and God sees Les.
Watch, wait and nod:
"How good!" each says.

(31July2016)

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall seeGod! JC (Matt 5)
I am fearfully and wonderfully made  (Ps)
Days when the grass-hopper creeps, hearing doesn't.. (Ecclesiastes)
Though outwardly our bodies are wasting away, inwardly we are being renewed  day by day! (~2Cor 4:16)
Teach us O Lord to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. (Ps)
Be thankfull in all things. (1Thess5:18)
This whole earth suffers the pains of childbirth, till the sons of God come into their own. (Rom 8)

Shield & Refuge

God’s way is perfect and the word of The Lord is proven. He is a shield and refuge to all who trust Him. (Psalm 18:30 PM Version)

...........................................

Amen. 

Not just "he gives a shield

and place of refuge"

(though of course he does),

he IS, himself;

.. as the two biggest presents

at a wedding are the HE

that is the present to her,

and the SHE

that is the present to him..

You, our God, are our shield,

You our God, are our refuge,

Are you ok with that?

I think you are,

because I too am a father.

I have been my  offspring's shield

and refuge from a sibling’s blows,

I have been loved so that "Home"

was where I was.

I have been a metaphorical

shield and refuge, as older children

confided in me their fears and hopes,

and I see 
this to be

a very great  blessing.

Thank you for sharing your blessing

of fatherhood.

So, today I will run behind you,

confide in you my fears and hopes.

This is my start.

(Please help me finish the day well,

still shielded by you,

and being a refugee TO you)

Amen

New Community seems lost... but blesses us...

God, make their bless-sing come true
for us, but back on them too,
with all this unsettlement
please save them from being bent

out of shapes that reflect your
lovely grace, they hoped to pour
as conduits into folk's lives,
that it might be what still thrives

as community grows strong-
gerr, with you (the very long-
gest community that's been)
help them strengthen what's not seen,

but yet's true. So we join with
your son and his prayers (Pow! Biff!).
We remember his clear word
(might need your help to inter-

-pret them rightly, if so "Help!")
like that seaweed stuff called kelp,
growing on salt-water/rocks,
you provide, as for your flocks,

food and clothing, shelter too;
our job is to love first You,
seek your kingdom's (loving) powers,
that your will be done, not ours.

Christ is the King, and appeared
(even while the en'my speared)
to lose the day; but he won
us losers, now "Daughter"/ "Son".

J.C.'s Birthday!

Happy day of birth
- old man - Josh Calder!
Glad you came to earth.
You're getting older!

Or is it younger?
- as his spirit grows
his life of wonder
as each old day goes

and the new comes on
with the risen sun,
& a sound hums on,
life has just begun(!)

& won't be over
till, purpose complete,
like pigs in clover
which is luscious/ sweet,

or a little child
doing what it's told,
with a growing, wild,
gratitude - that's gold!

May you (&your fam)
delight in this year,
with the great I AM,
learning to, well, cheer!

Do it, & bring it,
like a little child,
and surely sing it,
whether sad, or wild!

Unless you change and become like little children, you can never enter and live under the leadership of God!
J.C. Matt 18:3

Though outwardly our bodies are wasting away every day, inwardly our spirits are being renewed... through trials and difficulties. ..
Jesus' Ambassador "Paul" (a.k.a. Saul of Tarsus) 2Cor 4:16ff

Reckon "God who made ears" could be "God who hears"?

The Lord hears you when you call to Him for help. He will rescue you from all your troubles. Psalm 34:17PMV

How did you know?
Yes you are right;
he hear's somehow,
even at night,

or in the day-time,
or early morn.
flat-out when I'm
at work, or gone.

He's rescued me
so far at least.
Feel like those three*
who God released

freed from the rope,
and from the flame,
from the king's hope
and from "their shame".

Their attitude
somehow seems right
lived what they knew,
allowed God to "fight".

*Daniel's friends; Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. The King said..."... then who will rescue you from my hands?". They replied "Oh King, The God whom we serve is able to, but even if he chooses not to, know that we still won't bow down..."

2days of meetings coming up deciding on important issues

God, we need your wisdom
(as well as you yourself)!
so that your great kingdom
grow stronger through our "wealth",

all of which came from you
(you are the source of us),
so that all that we do
will smell of that "Jesus" -

the one that you christened
the LEADER OF HUMANS,
as we look and listen,
lead us out of ruins.

God, give us wisdom please
in our interactions
coming, that meetings
won't lead to more factions,

but loving connection
of your children, & you,
under your protection
from everything not true.

Lead us into your light
of love and truth at once.
And oh that your grace might
help us not act the dunce.

But "Ephatha*!" to you,
as well as each other,
that hearing, and speech too,
open, and not smother.

God we pray your blessing
upon our times each day, 
without double guessing
what it is you might say.

*Ephatha is Aramaic for "open up", & Mark records it as one of 4 times when he quotes Jesus's actual words, then translates them into the Greek for his Greek-speaking audience. See Mark 7, where Mark hints at, but doesn't specify whether Jesus is commanding the man's a) ears, b) tongue, c) neural (speech) pathways, d) whole being, towards God, or Jesus himself, or the man's household (to whom he is immediately sent by Jesus), or e) all of the above - to "open up".

catching up the next (Fri)day with an old mate

God, please give us wisdom
in our interactions
tomorrow, that connection
won't lead to more factions,

but loving connection
of your sons, & with you,
under your protection
from everything not true.

Lead us into your light
of love and truth at once.
And oh that your grace might
help us not be a dunce.

But "Ephatha!" to you,
as well as each other,
that hearing, and speech too
open between brothers.

God we pray your blessing
upon our time Friday, 
without double guessing
what is it you might say.

O.M.G. 2

"O.M.G!" he called out loud,
not because he was so proud
but in truth he spoke each word
to the one who always heard

"Why have you forsaken me?"
Yet God had promised that HE
would never forsake/ disdain
(in the book that bore his name)

Iesous, so he was to lead
boldly and con-fid-ent-ly.
Thus he asked the one he knew
would be there beside him, to

be his help, to help him see
(& he modelled clear for me),
that the greatest help he had
was the one he called his Dad

("Abba" was the word he used).
So when we are quite confused,
he taught us who to go to
even when our problems loom

most of all from Perception
(or else Interpretation),
in both these we need our God
(who does more than wink & nod

for he was "in Christ", in truth,
suffering his quite uncouth
abandonment/ ignorance)
Makes me want to sing and dance!

Amazing god. A-maze-ing!
Grace & Truth he comes to bring.
Strangely it is God who grieves
first in scriptures, his heart heaves.

And if we will follow Christ,
he's the one who sacrificed
his pleasure and comfort for
us who run from pain and raw

suffering, to have OUR SAY,
POWER - to have things our own way.
But he wouldn't speak except
it came from God, so he wept

for God's people (like his Dad
had grieved, which is icle-Rad!)
And we find the "Morning Star"
"The Sun of Righteousness", far

from just a shining chappy
who's always peaceful, happy,
is seen a "man of sorrows",
and blesses the tomorrows

of those who star at mourning
(recall his brother's warning
to all who are happy now;
learn to grieve and mourn somehow)

So he takes on sicknesses,
feels with that widowed missus,
when he's raised to God's right side
that was after he had died.

men and boys... god's provision ...

Dear friends,

Please continue to pray for safety and guidance for Mike, Wok, Peter Gibbs and the boys. They are climbing Mt Wilhelm today, which will stretch youngest to oldest, esp. those who have been weakened by a stomach bug.
Peter G. was supposed to fly home yesterday, but there is more political unrest and it's affectng flights in/out and around the country. So Peter could not fly and it is possible the issue still may not be resolved by Friday, when they all need to fly from Goroka to Moresby, and then to Sydney.
We continue to trust in God's provision for them.

God, we ask for Mike, & Wok,
& Peter Gibbs, & the boys:
please be their refuge and rock,
by your spirit help their choice

to follow you, and Jesus
when they feel all left alone
to trust your word that frees us
from our cold old hearts of stone,

and take the adventure from
your hand that is your great gift
to them and those around on
your Earth, help them to raise/ lift

their eyes above the mountains^
to the great King, who sent them
that their lives be creeks/ fountains
of your Life round Mount Wilhelm.

Please don't bring them back until
you've given more your gift-ing
that to, and through, them will
be grateful voices lifting

for your amazing good-life,
and friendship, comfort, and love.
Please grow these boys and men like
that Yeshua from above.

That they live as loved brothers
of who listened to your word,
then thought of all the others
by obeying what he heard.

O.M.G. 1 Love grows oneness wild! .

O.M.G., I love you too.
That's because of what you do,
and have done, in making me,
entrusting us with your dream

world of Time and Space to live
in, and on, and all you give:
every good thing that we've got,
every dream or hope that's not

yet come here, but helps us move
forward, not stuck in a groove,
yet with feet firmly planted
on grounds of being granted

by Love, which I hold exists(!)
not just as the passing mists
and then is gone. Love remains,
it never fails, holds the reigns.

For the secret is that GOD
(who reigns over the whole lot)
IS LOVE, he identifies
himself with what some despise.

And I'll bet my life & love
on that one come from above
who the God could not just watch
and keep silence, though he botch,

he must speak, communicate,
as love does, at times, relate;
and say "You are my own child
whom I love". Grow in me wild!

This my prayer, this is my hope.
I would now (& then) elope
with you God, in secret times,
to grow love's flame, and love's rhymes,

and learn to trust what's not seen
as more robust than what's been,
for what's to come,  may seem not,
but you live beyond Time's rot,

decay, and change.... your life's not
dependant on things you've got,
but on Love, that's who you are.
Rise in me, you morning star,

healing in your wings/(k)enough
for this world of wicked stuff.
You who made this universe
come to be, by powerful words

and who will remake it all
by that leader (of this Paul)
whom you anointed back then
when you tore that "sky curtain",

let us hear the author's heart.
I would live inside his part: 
being your beloved son.
May your love shine through this one;

this oneness of multiple,
of different kinds of people.
It turns out that good fam'ly
is like you. It's meant to be!

miss an open-night, going out to tea.

.. I already accepted an invite to tea at 7. So it seems that I'll be missing this open-night at your place. Go well though.

God, help all your folk
at that team household,
(each sheila and bloke)
to join with you, bold.

And for me as well
at our good friends' too,
to listen, and tell,
as Christ's people do.

God may I not speak
'less I'm spoken to.
Like Jesus the meek
said what came from you:

to help & build up
people round about.
If I'm now your pup
speak truth, not just shout.

Speak what's true, in love;
think that's what he did.
Hear what's from above,
do what he has said.

upholding all things...

Help me to learn love
Daddy, my Father
You are the God of
gods and kings rather

small, bow at your feet
so as to learn grace
and truth that's so sweet
as seen in his face.

The face of your choice
of Leader of Men,
who are all small boys
compared to your MAN.

He, himself is our 
way better than all
options based on "power"
- they are weak and small!

God help me to die well
today to this imp -
- pulse of a bland hell:
the rule of this shrimp

who declares loudly
that he must rule all,
and weasels proudly
for the RULE OF PAUL!

Your MAN helps me see
what that truly means:
death to the zombie,
New Creation beams!

(The beams that uphold
God's New World, and fires
Real Change is that Old
Cross- ing of desires:)

It's not about "my will"
(that takes effect
after death, until
it suffers neglect)

or maybe it is,
if I'm trusting Him
who sustains all things
to care for my whim.

"Not my will, be done
but yours (be done)." He
modelled, said your son,
small God, perfectly!

By the word, of his power,
the power of his love,
the eternal hour
gave time from above!

Paul d' Walker.

At the home of the Apple - Bob Whats-is-name.

Once upon a long time
ago a Jeffery bloke
came travelling over brine
to live with other folk,

took his wife and children,
to share knowledge and love,
because Jesus's rulin'
has been set, up above..

even though we can't see
him as the ruler here
(who else would we have to be
the Boss, till he appears?)

trusting that this direction
is what God chose for each,
this fam'ly's selection
is with folk who love peace.

Helping folk share water,
and breeding up good goats
- ways they think they aught-ta
spread God's rule with these folks.

They want for God's wisdom
and truthfulness to work
in this world of schizm
and "dog-eat-dog" berserk;

God's loyal love (hesed)
they want to see enfleshed
in ways that goats are bred,
and businesses enmeshed,

and households of families,
and their guests are built up
they long (like God) to see
good things that just erupt;

the evolution of
(because of heavenly rays)
God new solution of 
"live salt" and "light that stays".

And we have been real blest
to stay with them a while,
treated as royal guests,
and see why Jesus smiles.

The Lord is my ... ...

The Lord is my leader
my trainer/ protect-or,
my refuge, and feeder,
my coach, (and neglect-or -

when I need a blend'a
neglecting to save me
from my own agenda,
that would en-grave me).

The Lord is my leader
so I'm not gunna fret,
I don't really need a
thing, he's not finished yet.

The Lord is my gardener,
he's a pruner/ trainer,
cuts my options, hard'ner
of off-shoots to retain.

The Lord is my shepherd;
that means I'm his own sheep.
He knows all my history,
he hears each time I bleat.

The Lord is my leader
so I'm not gunna fret,
I don't really need a
thing, he's not finished yet.

The Lord is my master
I'm glad to be his slave
(or his dog, or donkey)
I don't want to behave

just because I have to,
I want for devotion
and trust to grow in me
as more than a notion.

The Lord is my teacher,
and I am his student,
he knows much more than me,
and he knows what's prudent.

The Lord is my leader
so I'm not gunna fret,
I don't really need a
thing, he's not finished yet.

The Lord, he is my judge.
I know he knows the lot
(his mercy will not budge),
his sentences are not

ever over-riden
(no-one can gain-say him),
since he says "not-guilty",
I will not betray him!

The Lord's my feudal lord,
(or else my modern boss) -
good one, who shares his hoard
and profits (and our loss)!

The Lord is my leader
so I'm not gunna fret,
I don't really need a
thing, he's not finished yet.

The Lord is my High-King.
He is my Em-per-or.
I will be found fighting
what's against what he's for!

The lover of my soul
is The Lord, I'll respond
to his call to be whole
by personal lover's bond!

The Lord is my leader
so I'm not gunna fret,
I don't really need a
thing, he's not finished yet.

The Lord is my god,
the God of gods is he.
I'll look for his nod,
and copy what I see!

The Lord is my father
(and mother too you know)
there's none whom I'd rather
be like, so here I go!

The Lord is my leader
so I'm not gunna fret,
I don't really need a
thing, he's not finished yet.


I have everything I need.  
He lets me rest in fields of green grass
and leads me to quiet pools of fresh water.
He gives me new strength.
He guides me in the right paths, as he has promised. 
Even if I go through the deepest darkness,
I will not be afraid, Lord, for you are with me.
Your shepherd's rod and staff protect me. 
You prepare a banquet for me, where all my enemies can see me;
you welcome me as an honored guest and fill my cup to the brim. 
I know that your goodness and love will be with me all my life;
and your house will be my home as long as I live.
Psalm 23:1‭-‬6 GNTD
http://bible.com/69/psa.23.1-6.GNTD

In this world you will have trouble. But take heart..

I have told you these things so that you will have peace in me. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart, I have overcome the world. John 16:33 (PM Version)

Halleluyah!

Thanks for your peace.

More pow'r to ya

Our High Lord Jes-

-us, we are yours

so we expect

this world's same claws

goin' for OUR necks.

Learning from you:

"Don't even flinch"

this ol' World-View

is broken and lynched!

And the NEW WORLD

with Yeshua's

white flag unfurled

has come to us,

yet's much bigger:

Lord here you seem:

"ghostly figure"

-still in OUR dream.

Your life is deeper:

indescribable.

And no way cheaper,

indestructible*!

Ya' WAY is true.

Ya' WAY we'll go.

Yes-U-es U!

yAH! Way we go!

*Heb 7:15-17; 1Pet 1:22-25

yeast-to-day (Id)

Thank you God for "the sunshine."
said Heidi with milk-ice block
in her hand (and mouth, sometimes.
Opposites don't always mock).

It's heat & light do give us
the ability to see things
& the energy to see,
as well as live, & be things.

And thanks God, "for bicycles"
said that lovely Katrina,
(while washing - no ice-icles),
getting from where you've been-a,

to the places you will go,
& more quickly than walking,
and that you can feel wind flow,
not sitting still, or balking.

And what does Jeff thank God for?
I've heard him say it a lot...
~"Thanks God, for such a woman,
she's the Beth one that I got!

And then for all these others 
who extend our fam-i-ly,
who are sisters & brothers,
making rich a man like me!"

And then Jamilla ('Mima,
helps each sibling to grow up
straight and true, to be finer)
by words, and when they show up!

Tim says Thanks God -"for water"
to drink and bathe, and swim with
on hot days it always pays
to have some to be "in, with"!

Hugh (Esomedeen) then said
while nearly fast a-sleeping
on his "corpiture"/bed
Thanks God "for sleep", a peeping...

Peter, and Harmony smiled,
and sometimes very kindly,
(though sometimes we were beguiled,
not sucked in, trusting blindly)

Beth has said (, or set) herself
to thank God for all these folk
who reflect God (that's yourself!)
as they live, and joke, to stoke...

to stoke fires of love and truth
to thank God, in word, and song!
GOD, thanks from us, old or youth,

for these things. We'll sing along!

GOD I NEED TIME

GOD I NEED TIME to connect!
I don't suppose you've got some?
Else my life is crashed, & wrecked,
disappointment reigns in glum

contra-distinction to your
bright joy, which gives strength and light
(nothing of me will "adore",
"sur-viv-al" - is ALL in sight!)

GOD I NEED TIME to connect!
with you, and those you've given.
Where it went I can't suspect.
I've worked so hard and striven.

Did YOU take it all away
(to leave time for the next job)?
What was that I heard you say?
Did Martha, or Mary, sob?


As Jesus and his disciples went on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha welcomed him in her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat down at the feet of the Lord and listened to his teaching. Martha was upset over all the work she had to do, so she came and said, “Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her to come and help me!”  The Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha! You are worried and troubled over so many things, but just one is needed. Mary has chosen the right thing, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Luke 10:38‭-‬42 GNTD http://bible.com/69/luk.10.38-42.GNTD

The biblical background to Jesus's "Woe to you... Pharisees, Teachers of the Law, .. (the shepherds of God's people)", and Peter's comments to the Overseers in Jesus's way of doing Government.

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to you shepherds of Israel who only take care of yourselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock? You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock. You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally. So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals. My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.  “ ‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them. I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign Lord . I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.        Ezekiel 34:1‭-‬6‭, ‬11‭, ‬15‭-‬16 NIV http://bible.com/111/ezk.34.1-16.NIV 

The word of Yahweh
came to me & said
you must prophesy
against a shepherd.

You, “Son of Adam",
must warn them of woes
(who take care of 'em-
-selves, & then repose!)

"Should not my shepherds
take care of my flocks?
But, you eat the curds,
and then knit your socks

and your cardigans,
from my sheep's fine wool,
and feast on prime-lambs,
until you are full.

But you take care of
naught but your "precious".
You're not aware of
the flock. You're specious;

as shepherds- you're not!
No strengthening the weak,
or cutting out rot,
no healing the sick,

binding the injured.
You're voices don't call,
except they've wing-ed,
to bicker, and stall.

You don't bring back strays,
or search for the lost,
to bring them in ways
quite gentle. You bossed!

You ruled them harshly
and brutally too.
And not impartially
o-verse-e-ing, you

caused them to scatter
without a shepherd,
they didn't matter
except as the food

for wild animals.
My sheep wandered all
over the mountains
and every high hill.

Scattered over all
the whole earth, and no
one searched or looked for
them. So, I will go!