de light shone down..

TXT to PW:

Hey do you know what version Ann-Marie Richards used for her song for Phillipians 4:4 "delight yourself in the Lord, yes, find your joy in him at all times..." ?

I like it best because instead of "rejoice in the lord always" it says "find your joy in him"... the idea that you have to seek it and find it. And maybe it's through the choice to delight that we find it... 

I guess you can choose to rejoice too, but I like the 2 step process of delight and then find joy. 

I've really enjoyed thinking more about the sweetness of … (the 10 words) ... thanks. 

What other things have you been delighting in lately?  (I feel like it's a treasure hunt, and I want help, I want the clues from the treasures other people are finding to help me look better and find those golden chocolate eggs for myself!)

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TXT from PW: 

Yes, yes! About the treasure hunt... i'll look for the version in Bible gateway ...

Here 'tis: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+4&version=PHILLIPS Happy hunting.... and Discovering (uncovering),. Remembering that everything covered up WILL BE uncovered (Luke12).You are on a hopeful hunt. 

Hey if you haven't heard these two, (on the hunting/discovering thingo) they are worth listening to, with your life partner : these 2 podcasts from BEMA: 

i) on the Jewish mindset, especially their aim, goal, and way of teaching that was exemplified by Jesus (Introductory things; https://share.fireside.fm/episode/7HMQ5AvZ+uvhkAqod ) and 

ii) with examples from the first biblical narrative (episode 1: Trust the story; https://www.bemadiscipleship.com/1 )

What other things have i been delighting in lately? 

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What other things have I delighted in? 

Well lately I have spied within the trees

around this place, a change in colours win-

ning dominance, perchance this contest seize-

es our imaginations which are apt

to make a race, or contest, war, or game

(depending on whether we feel we're trapped,

or free to choose, all lives are not the same -

for even with the same ol' DNA,

and circumstances, folk can diff'rent be.

Our mindset (What we look for? Who's to blame?)

will set us "grateful" or "grumpy" to be!

So I have been delighting in the plain

profound and simple joys that come along

into my world as gifts from who's to "blame"

for ev'ry good, complete thing that is strong,

that lives and breaths the patient breath of life,

the essence of our life, our loves & joys,

and thriving ecosystem which is rife

with outcomes of the disciplined good choice.

The song that I would learn to sing, to mean..

(instead of just "to mean to learn to sing"),

the sights and sounds and stuff that makes good dreams

the choices to recall what stuff will bring

the kind of life that God might hope for here,

the kind of dreams he'd have, and might too share,

dey bring de light of love quite close, quite near.

He said* "let there be light"; de light was there!

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* Some Mystical Jewish followers of the G*d note that there are ten WORDS (or utterances) associated with Creation (as well as the namings), which somehow corresponds to the TEN WORDS (the Jewish designation of the Ten Commandments). Tying this together with that statement from the Torah, "Man shall not live by bread only, but by everything that comes from the mouth of God", makes me think that what comes from the mouth of God, his breath (spirit, wind) (as in mouth to mouth resusitation ), his kiss of welcome, his gentle whisper, his stark command, are all the things worth holding onto and allowing de light dat dey bring to bring delight of life and love to our souls.

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The covenant of kinship

God help this man "Un-named" to more live in

not just his lady, but also his God;

- to let who cares, provides for & loves him

give all Himself so he might just respond.

So help this one, "Un-named", initia-

tor, come quite quick, responding to this love

enjoying all your pleasures. No dicta-

tor, such a lover, wooing from above.

And I would learn to be quite quick, as well

might one who has received your love and grace;

it's out of this world's influence - dispelled

by even once, in tale, "seeing" your face.

Oh how amazing, to find love & strength

within the face of Jesus, as my God

and Lord, my Father here on Earth, at length

ascended to the heavens, doing "What?"

He said he would be building up a home,

rebuilding temple of the living God.

Build up your lady, like him. Do not roam.

Come back and live with in your home. And nod, ..

the nod of one who does not give a damn,

because he'll never give his "dam" away.

A "ram" who would learn love, and be a man

like his own Father who had thus displayed

the scorn of pain, and suffering themselves,

for reasons of a higher greater joy.

Oh God give us your spirit, essence, health

since you treated us as, called each, "My boy"!

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Profound Joy...

Oh God, you are the joy of life itself.

As such you set up things for all the  "rest".

Your Shabbat for your icons, for good health

of all creation. You're simply "the best".

We're not your "slaves" or even  "working drones".

You don't need us at all. You love to love.

Your way / approach, to ev'rything you own

suggests life & abundance from above!

And strangest thing of all is your approach,

and your retiring presence like a wild  -

wild creature that would wait. You don't reproach,

except as a good parent trains their child.

You aren't  the pouncing predator we dread.

It's right to call you "Father", as he did.

You'd like to train our hearts, not just our heads.

Give motivations that could open lids

each morning, so our eyes could gladly serve

the purposes we give to them as parts

of these small bodies, joined by flesh, bone, nerve.

Since as a whole, our life's sustained by hearts.

Our job is to respond with heart and sole,

with hand and forehead, to your light of love.

And copy with our ev'rything, our whole,

our parents, even though they're far above.

We're learning not just acts, but motives too.

We're trying to take on your purposes.

To let your joys encompass all we do.

Your word's own hope, much more than what each sez..

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new.., ..to, ..through, ..you..

May God the source of blessings bless you good.

And greater still, make you to be like him,

a source yourself to those around who could

be blessed by you without you growing dim.

Two choices seem to help me see more pass

out through me to the others round about;

some blessings bring more energy and "class"

when given up, they love to "get on out".

Choose these to give away. Look for this kind.

For your creator made you so to be.

It's like you can blame him. If you are blind,

you won't be painting watercolours, see!

But if he blesses you with sight, then see.

And if he gave you ears to hear with, hear!

The second choice is needful, that's that we

keep linked and looking to our source, who's near.

May God bless you, to be a blessing to

whoever you connect with on the way.

As he sent Jesus, so the Christ sent you

to be an outpost of his rule today..

This is his way of blessing that endures.

It is his way of sending out khesêd,

(the loyal love of faithfulness that cures

from evil that would dominate and shed

the blood of others rather than itself.)

But faithful loyal khesed love makes folk

not by a force of arms, creative wealth

makes people who give life, instead of choke*.

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*  think First "Son of Adam" (Cain, "A murderer, from the beginning"), or Last "Son of Adam" (the most frequently used referent, used by Jesus when referring to himself. And subsequently referred to by Peter as "the source of life", and by Paul as "a life-giving spirit".

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A friend goes to the big-smoke

May God bless you, to be a blessing to 

whoever you connect with on the way. 

As he sent Jesus, so the Christ sent you 

to be an outpost of his rule today..