a temp le t

a templet

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Mark chapters 11-13..

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God's way of doing "Temple" isn't first

what we've grown up to think, our culture's way.

It came before creation, and it busts

what's "practical", what we would likely say.

It mucks our preconceptions; but ah, salts, 

and lightens up a lot, our heavy loads!

The heart of one who doesn't look for faults,

but looks for fruit, like love, joy, peace; and goads,

if necessary, so to wake kids up.

The diff'rence is between a house and home.

And if you've thought this through, you'll see enough,

to live with his own kids, in tent or dome,

to have the chance to share life  is the stuff

this father's heart is open to, he wants,

to share like this, through easy and through tough

times, helping them grow up, and act (not ponce),

to make & build, to hear & think, in truth.

It seems he'd rather share with them the scant-

ty times, and help them learn to love "unroofed".

He'd rather have them than a chance to rant

about the carpet, or the polished boards.

He'd rather share with children in a slum,

than have a lot of "worshippers" in hoards.

The meaning of a temple is .. "Come, come!

- and see - it's more like "house of God" you know..

Yet, God dain't need a house, God wants a home,

for God's children to live belov-ed, so

- it's tenting holidays, beneath a dome!

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Followed by: https://appallinglife.blogspot.com/2021/09/b-temp-le-t.html

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