learning how to differ..

So here I am, a Jesus follower.
In very great need of his view of life
in God's good world - to NOT be "wallower"
in pity, & in sin and death, & strife.

And when I feel reactions coming on
from my small life of living in this place,
to not give vent to them - my feelings strong
need to be matched with thinking, and with grace,

to see good functions that can come of this
(as God "wastes time" and "saw that it was good")
but knowing that he also saw the mess
a bit later, & then did what we could

to minimize the damage, start afresh.
O make me Father God, to be like you.
And thanks for sending Jesus to en-mesh
the heavens & the earth in people too -

that as we start with secret lives of pray'r
that your will will be done, on earth today
just like it is in heaven, which is where
your presence is full honoured - ev'ry way!

You'll somehow make these walking bags of skin
to be transformed to wine-skins that carried
the new life of God's Spirit (held within)
to bland and stilted lives, which ha'n't married

the two dimensions of heaven and earth
to make a further one, out of the two.
Which turns out to be fun, to be our birth-
right here & there, in everything we do!