..what God's Leadership is ON ABOUT!

The Kingdom of God is really - at least
the goodness and peace & joy of himself
in ev'ry situation: be it feast
or famine, death or life; it brings new health!

But since God made the Heavens & the Earth;
(& both dimensions have a go-between)
the WAY we eat and drink (or do not - both)
in goodness, peace, & joy is what we mean

when we pray "as in heaven, so on earth"
we're learning from our Father God to be
all that he put us here to be, by birth:
as baby gods we learn like him to see

the goodness round about - (at its own "stage")
it might not yet be fully grown, but will
as time goes on, & then we turn the page
in his-story, & lovely things have spilled

into the world (or will in God's good time)
from every good thing we have planted/known.
And as we spread shalom from God (sublime),
his wholeness & his healing then are shown.

And tail-gating on that comes happiness, 
the earthly counterpart of God's full joy, 
to all the ones who are people of peace,
who're open up * to heaven, like your "boy".

If you put these things first in serving Christ
you will as his own child, live in his love,
since God has given us his spir't of feist-
y love, power, discipline that's from above.

..........

* Open up! (= Ephatha in Aramaic; see the last small story in Mark 7) may in fact be a whole way of life..(cf Isa "Morning by morning he wakens me, he opens up my ear to live as a disciple/learner... he enables me with the word to sustain the weary...)

The Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. If you put these things first in serving Christ you will please God. Romans 14:17-18
(PM Version)

God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self discipline 2 Timothy 1:7, (PM Version)

But you, dear friends, carefully build yourselves up in this most holy trust (in our as yet unseen Master/Leader of Humanity) by praying in the Holy Spirit, staying right at the center of God’s love, keeping your arms open and outstretched, expressing and ready for the ruling mercy of our Master, Jesus Christ. This is the unending life, the real life (of God himself) - which will extend beyond the life of each universe!  Jude.1.20-21.(MSG & pw)