may your will (even at the expense of my desires), be done!

...coming back to look and listen, to your poem/ recollection/ prayer...

It's almost overwhelming...

I see your recurring themes of loneliness, stepping out on a risky adventure, questions, and, that one I bounced off in my last email...
"Your will be done!" - even more than my escape from suffering.

“His final words guide faith today
Into YOUR hands I commit my spirit
Into your hands I commit my spirit
Thy will be done.”

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Amen*.

Amen,

Amen!

God, may your will,

(in words learned from their captors, in the tongue
of Babylon, where they were sent to fill

the need of land to rest, to compost dung)

be done! - God's people learn to turn from sin,

and listen to, and weigh up, truth he sends,

and follow God's anointed when he's in

this world to teach us where the good way wends.

Until he brings an end to all that smirched,
transgression finished, and all sin undone.

D’ya think that wickedness must be researched?

It needs to be clean soaked up like a sponge!

And sealed against with righteousness that's tough,

and lasts as everlasting stuff can do.

God's will is not some static thing, enough

for older cov-en-ants, that were in view.

God, may your will not just be talked about,
but done - at the expense of comfort here.

And start in me that I will, without doubt,

now do your will, of thankful, prayerful, cheer!

So, may your new creation cov-en-ant

with you, and faithful be to such a one.

Until you fill the Universe which can't

contain you, though you'll love to have it done!

And though the wars and desolations grow,

an end will come, the sanctuary destroyed,

with God's anointed put to death below,

the chaos seemed to conquer, making "void"

the promis-sory note, the cheque he gave

to say that these resources could be the used.

But ev'ry time his resurrection waved

it gave us hope, and left us less confused!
...

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* Amen (meaning Yes. Alright. Ah huh. Ok. I agree! May that be the case!), Is an Aramaic word. First Century Jewish people in outlying villages had grown to have Aramaic as their mother tongue, since their exile in Babylon >500 years previous. It was there in exile, that Daniel responded to God's revelation: “Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us,

yet we have not sought the favour of the Lord our God

by

turning from our sins and

giving attention to your truth.

…

‘Seventy “sevens” are decreed for your people and your holy city

to finish transgression,

to put an end to sin,

to atone for wickedness,

to bring in everlasting righteousness,

to seal up vision and prophecy and

to anoint the Most Holy Place.
...

“After the sixty-two “sevens”,

the Anointed One

will be put to death and will have nothing.

The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary.

The end will come like a flood:

war will continue until the end, and

desolations have been decreed.”

Daniel 9:13‭, ‬24, 26 NIVUK

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