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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