Peace from above

So now I see what you do unto us -

oh living God (!) who loves your children back
to life, with love that empowers without fuss:
you save us from our lack of will, that's slack.

Well, yes you are the one who helps me want
to do what's true and loyal (faithfulness)!
For there are times I'm so low that I won't
want even to be true, or think to bless.

So thank you Father God who's more than met
this need in me by growing your love seed
inserting your love/faith in me so yet
I can rely upon it in my need.

Your kHesed* (faithful love) answers much more,
it helps me get beyond just having good
de-sir-es (like to live above the floor),
it helps me walk, and stand, - run as I should

well, like to - give up worry, & my self-
preoccupation, rise above my "ghosts"
that hold me back. The brightest myth to help
(is one about this god, this Lord of Hosts)

to show me next steps, give me direction,
was after that dead body was entombed,
then when LOVE intervened - resurrection!
The myth continues on - I've been en-loomed,

caught up in a tapestry of loving
my story woven into myths that breathe
all this without the slightest of shoving,
though wooing by this spirit brings a heave...

So, I don't worry about anything,
& I pray in all my circumstances,
I tell God what I need, and I thank him
for all he's done/ given, - even chances.

And when I do this I experience
a peace that I can't speak of  - 'cept to say
I think it is a piece of heaven since
it's more than what this world gives till today.

This peace is more than my mind understands.
It wraps & guards my heart and soul for love.
It gives & thrives, instead of just demands,
like life & wisdom that comes "from above".

*kHesed is the Hebrew term  that means "loyal love", or "loving-kindness", or maybe "faithful love",  celebrated throughout the scriptures Jesus lived out of. I wonder if the New testament is trying to render this concept into Greek by its emphasis on both "faith" & "love"... in fact Paul pulls both terms together in a summative (& yet process oriented) way in his letter to early Christians in Galatia (Gal 5:6  As for us, our hope is that God will put us right with him; and this is what we wait for by the power of God's Spirit working through our faith. For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love. Ga 5:5‭-‬6 GNTD)


I reckon everything as utter rubbish for the sake of what is so much more valuable, the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have thrown everything out; I consider it all as mere garbage, so that I may gain Christ and be completely united with him. I no longer have a righteousness of my own, the kind that is gained by obeying the Law. I now have the righteousness that is given through faith in Christ, the righteousness that comes from God and is based on faith. All I want is to know Christ and to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings and become like him in his death, in the hope that I myself will be raised from death to life.  ... So I run straight toward the goal in order to win the prize, which is God's call through Christ Jesus to the life above. ...  I have told you this many times before, and now I repeat it with tears: there are many whose lives make them (not exemplars, but) enemies of all that the cross of Christ stands for. They are going to end up on the rubbish tip, because their god is their bodily desires. They are proud of what they should be ashamed of, and they focus only on things that belong to this world. We, however, are citizens of heaven, and we eagerly wait for our Savior, our Prime Minister, the Lord Jesus Christ, to come from heaven to Earth again. He will change our weak mortal bodies and make them like his own glorious body, using that power by which he is able to bring all things under his rule. Phil 3:8‭-‬11‭, ‬14‭, ‬18‭-‬21 (PW version cf. GNB)

Keep on working (along with God, as co-workers) with care, an understanding of the importance of your job, & attention to details that matter, to complete your salvation, because God is (still & will always continue to be) at work in you to help you want to be willing, & then to be willing to do, & then to be empowered & enabled to live out his own great purposes and dreams for his world (Phil 2:12‭-‬13 PW version cf. GNB)

I don't worry about anything, I pray about everything. I tell God what I need and I thank him for all He has done for me.When I do this I experience Gods peace, which is far more wonderful than what this world can give, this peace is more than my mind can understand. This peace guards my heart and soul. Nothing compares. Philippians 4:6-7 (PM version)