"As for me and my household....."

Please God save these from harm and evil too,
I somehow feel responsible for them,
but much better by far, is that "to you
they have responded, for you are their hen,

and they're your chicks, and some  have run to you",
as their defense, as their strong tower, who
when they're in trouble, they will run right to
and find themselves as "gathered,  and made true".

God's peace be on all those who live within
this household {which is much more than 'this house' -
a household might've chosen tent-livin',
and they can make some orn'ry things look grouse!

B'coz they are creative sparks from him,
who thought up good, then talkin' to 'imself,
an' talkin' to the thing he was makin',
created this whole world, from 'off the shelf',

- that's as a way of speaking - in 'iz mind,
and then used 'this', to make some more o' 'that',
then put them both together, and we find
that WE have been made up, with a 'spit splat'.

And yet we aren't just sparks, or his robots,
(unless we're bound within that world-view where
we always must interpret what we've got
so saying "we're machines that SEEM to care").

He also told our story to us so
we'd know that we are no less than "his kids",
and told us to remember, so we'd grow
up more to be like him until our lids

can open up, and then when we come out
the screaming, and the crying, and the smiles,
the celebrating (with all of God's shouts)
his children have been born after 'a while'.

So when a household's made of baby gods,
and 'shalom' means to thrive, as gardens grow;
if they're connected to "The GOD", what odds
'dyou bet against, in saying "that will show"?}

Now I recall Ye-SHU-ah prayed for all
his children, who had let him lead them and
then listened to his voice, and then recalled,
and built upon that rock! Thus will I stand!