After Penguin - Blooms

 

God's long game with us here depends on love.

Which is the undergirding and the aim.

This only way persisting from above

the heart of power with people - and a game.

A deadly earnest game, with carefree fun,

and simple trust that's given wings to fly.

That lets go of the reigns as "Number One", 

and plays the second fiddle, or will try.

A game of keeping "my desires" at bay,

and never letting them get off their leash,

until my coach and trainer has the say,

and cuts the chain - when I've learned how to teach,

and have the cunning and the strength to catch 

them, and have them to heal, to serve the good

of all the fam'ly in the world, to match

the outcome of love's will. What matters should.

You cared about a woman's growing life.

You cared that her own fam'ly grew up too.

You sent a servant in their time of strife

to help ignite that love, that comes from you.

A series of "mistakes" of diff'rent kinds

made open doors in dungeons where they'd rot,

then opened skies to love, and opened minds;

and people walked right through what they could not.

This God whose avatars and servants are

some flames of fire or wind, ravens or doves, ...

is motivated by love's shining star.

And loves to grow us, though he rarely "shoves".

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Beautiful creative images which helped spawn these thoughts in me:

• The story of  "Penguin Bloom" - from the book, which I read a few years ago, & from the movie (which we saw last night).

• Genesis 1, the spirit of the creator god brooding, hovering (like a mother bird over her nest of eggs) over the waters

• The raven Noah let out of the Ark, & the dove Noah let out of the Ark that came back with a an olive twig/leaf.

• The ravens that fed the prophet Elijah in a desert hideaway in a drought when the king was trying to kill him.

• The spirit that came down from the shizm between heaven and earth which settled and rested on Yeshua "like a dove".

• The wisdom of King Solomon when first inherited from his invisible (at the time) giver - in deciding the case between two prostitutes about a dead baby, that depended on the existence of, and seeking out and bolstering, love within humanity.

• God (sending his angel and) freeing folk from prisons (Joseph, Daniel, the group of apostles (Acts 5:17-42), Peter on his own (Acts 12:1-17)

• That poemish thingo written/quoted by Paul in his letter to a fledgling community of First Century  Jesus followers in the thriving city of Corinth, preficed with something like these words: "..& now i will show you the Most Excellent Way..." (referenced in the bible as First Corinthians chapter 13, or 1Cor.13:1-13)

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