2016-12-30

confessing blessing

A friend heads off North for New Year with his daughter etc...

Set your heart on Gods kingdom and His goodness, and all these things will come to you as a matter of course. Mathew 6:33 (PM Version)
..........

God give this man,
and too his clan,
the grace to see
how good you be,
& then to praise
through all his days
the giver, who
comes back to you.

And help this man
as best he can
to set his heart
(the whole, not part)
on your good reign
which is again
a gift from you
that's good and true.

While spreading more
your goodness o'er
this world, we wait
breath unabate-
ed, & we're grate-
fully relate-
ed by breathed breath*
that conquers death.

So all the small-
er things which call
for worry now
will be somehow
provided when
their need is 'then',
& Trust won't test
- it knows it's blessed.

The giver who
comes back to you,
as conduit wends
from source to end(s),
can only give
what source de-liv-
ers to the end(s);
thus us to friends.

* in Hebrew (ruach, & the Ancient Common Greek of the Frist Century New Testament - pneuma) the same word was used to cover the three related (though in our English-speaking minds quite separate) meanings of "spirit", "wind", & "breath". It might be said that they thought as much of the "holy breath" or "holy wind" as the "holy spirit" or at least the "play on words/concepts" worked for them such that in their minds a relation is quickly seen between actions & words (John 3:8; & even more so in John 20:22 so that they might immediately see it as "he blew/breathed on them and said receive the holy breath" (c.f. Gen2:7).

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