learning to see.. learning to be..

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Oh God! You are the only one who could

have set this whole place up, then disappeared.

Although, I s'pose each mother has a good

go at the same job to her children near 

to term, when they might just about be born,

with eyes and ears, and other senses too,

but no chance yet to recognize her form

b'coz they are protected in a room

that's made within her very self, to save

them, in their undeveloped, immature,

state (which  means they have no chance to behave

appropriately, as though they'd had the tour

of ev'rywhere, they have in fact been to

inside the belly of the Mum of them.

My daughter lived for months that way in leaux

of doing tours of India back when

we visited there, months before her birth,

and we knew she would be "safe as a house"

for even though she lived within this Earth,

she needed to develop, not espouse

opinions as to whether Mums exist,

or boast about the places that she's been,

or spruik about the things that she had missed.

Another time, they might be by her seen.

And still her mother cares for, thinks of, her.

Though each is also helping others too,

to speak in language understood, preferred.

I think her Mum has been a bit like you!

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.. the blessing that our ..sons & daughters.. (this includes the ones our biological children grabbed by the hand and brought into our family) are

 thoughts on Psalm 127:

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A gift from the Creative Love that keeps

on going, is the children we receive.

A chance to share God's viewpoint, if just peeps

into the tapestry our choices weave.

The blessing & the gift to us is real.

We're richer than a Billionaire I know.

And this is just the start of what's the deal,

we all get brand new bodies. What's the go?

We'll only have a snooze, then get to share

the heavens and New Earth, with all that's good.

So maybe we'll have dinosaurs in there?

And teleport through walls, or know we could.

So when we bring our kids into this womb-

world now, with all the people who are  here.

It's easy to forget that very soon 

when Jesus rules, we'll have all who would fear

God, and obey his word to each of us.

And maybe we won't  even need food then,

but could still eat what's given without fuss,

and maybe toilets won't be needed when

we're in those bodies, indestructible,

like his, who is the last Adam as well,

and we're the fam'ly tree that really will

grow in the soil of love, and shrink all hell.

If children are a gift from the Lord, why

our children's children are more-so than that!

And real blessings can wear you out. Don't try

to do it on your own, the sharing's glad!

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IS LOVE

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Well how on Earth could I believe love is

existant in these days. Heard it's extinct!

I don't think dinosaurs could even kiss.

And if they did, their programing was kinked.

Or else a transfer of saliva might 

have been important for digestiveness

within a species lacking U.V. light.

No gift "for others' good" has happened yet.

It's only twisted round to look that way.

We know that all is done for species/  self.

Don't We? When honest? Folk like that would say.

So now we have to put love on the shelf

of Disney movies made for little girls

to help them keep their wishful thoughts alive.

The myth of love quite often still unfurls,

is rampant there. That's how it may survive!

The smallest weakest ones believe in love 

to help them not to face realities:

that pow-er is what keeps folk up above

and able so to know the facts like these

to fight and win, for knowledge is a  pow'r,

& minimizes what must be coerced.

It's kind of Eco-friendly in this hour.

But not all scarcity must be reversed.

But cont'ry to this view of all the world

and one that I hold to, to be more true,

is one where love with open heart unfurled,

has given us the chance to pick and choose

that's whether we'll step up, as baby gods,

or else step down to just programed desires.

The first has selves appearing, 'gainst the odds,

the second one reduces what inspires.

It seems to me there is a sense in which,

since love is only ever done by "selves",

it can not be quite "selfless", that would ditch

the self that would show love. We need to delve

some more, & when we do we see that love

alone has pow'r to bring a self to be.

Who knows where its pow'r ends? It's from above,

and wants to grow true selves from you and me.

Love's way is not directed to curtail,

but flows around, and goes the extra mile

and doesn't stop. I've heard love does not fail,

nor keep within all boundaries & smile,

as though each thing is good, just as it is,

and all our systems, habits, are just fine

when pow-er and coercion do their biz-

ness, with no other way for us in time.

For love stops not at parts, it sees the whole,

in fact, it makes this universe exist.

From love each atom gains it's very soul.

It's love that makes us solid-ish in mist.

Love fe-ars not the thing that we call death,

for it's more real, as light is, than the dark.

And it's the kind of thing, with ev'ry breath,

that make a life worth living. It's quite stark.

The kind of thing that will go into air

that has through power's exercise been raped

(till gas sustaining life has gone from there).

Seems like it must be super sized and caped,

or mythical, for all those little girls.

And so it is, the smallest weakest one

has more insight than mechanistic churls.

I am convinced that love, has just begun!

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A dear sister in pain

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I love you girl, & I am pretty sure

that all the good that's come into our lives

is only part of what he's planned, and more

is on the way. For God himself's our prize.

The pain that's coming to your legs and arms

is awful girl. Look up to your own Dad

and tell him all about the strains and harms.

God, hearing her we tell you things are bad.

Please help this woman, on the inside to

know what to ask for and to speak the truth, 

creatively, as you made her to do,

and humbly, patiently, as a child who

thinks that her Dad does love her, & will trust

him in the suffering that they share both

to do what can be done, as love will, must,

continue, and then grows as does their trōth.

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Thoughts prompted .. on the road with Jesus

 

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In fact, he may have gotten a little carried away.  …  He said, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you.” 

Quoted by Nick Sommerville in "On the road with Jesus…"

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Then Satan fell from heaven like a flash 

of lightning (that is pow'rful, and destroys

with bush-fi-res, that turn all into ash),

and soon after, there comes a crunching noise.

The spirit of creative love came down

and fluttered as a dove of peace and hope,

and settling, rested on the one from town

of Nazareth, who joined up with the dopes

who wouldn't hide their failures and their flaws,

their immaturities, and fallings-short,

but spoke them out in public then because:

a voice spoke out, from God, who never sought 

to get attention for himself apart

from as a signpost pointing to the one

who was before, but came behind, with heart

of God, for ev'ry daughter, ev'ry son;

who said that was the way to "On your Mark!

Get ready! (- for the visit that's to come,

of He who would bring people from the dark

& into light, he'd wash them clean by some

some way that water (John used,) symbolized.

He'd wash, anoint, appoint folk, inside out!

Not from those outside rituals. Surprised,

folk who returned from "out there" danced about.

And when some roaring wind, and tongues of fire

came later on, from Heaven to God's Earth,

it also landed on, not people hired,

but borne from breath above, to speak God's worth.

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Mate, sorry, only got to read your txt now. Hoping to get a lift into Woodend somehow in the morning. If i can pop in to see you beforehand, I'll  text first to see if you are up...

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Oh God, please heal your son from what is up,

and give your calm assurance from the fact

that you are there with him. You are enough.

You give us what is needed. That's your pact.

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Busy week

Go well with God in marking, and at school.

Hope with your lady, and babe, things are cool.

Remember that you're loved. You aren't a fool.

And I hope soon to see you all, and you'll

be able then to see me too, I hope,

that we can all rejoice, and not just "cope".

Though there are times it might seem that we mope

about, but it's more "slowly move" than lope.

Alice's Birthday

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A blessed bird-day, for this day on Earth.

Remebering each bird that's fed and cared

for here, when shells are cracked, somehow they're birthed.

They have a place within a heart that's shared

with God's own child, because creative love

is undergirding all of this here world.

Today, i hope recalls those "from above"

the light, & wisdom, life, that's been unfurled. ..

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"It takes a village to raise a child."

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If Children are a gift from the Lord. and,

"They are a re-al blessing, (not a curse!)…"

Then how can I begin to understand

a grand-child, this is wild (- it won't be worse!).

For what a blessing! What a gift they'd be!

And living close enables such a gift.

And what a blessing this could be to me,

& Katie, if we let it be the lift

that opening ourselves to who God sends 

us to, as well as whom he sends to us

in ways that are appropriate; this tends

to show where we get energy to fuss

as love would do, not to get comfort's slump,

but listening ourselves to what you share,

and noticing how love will not be stumped, 

but bounces back, and bends to get to where

it's sent, I think it is the light of life.

It's energy refracts, diffracts, impacts,

but graciously, & starts within*. It's rife!

It doesn't knock you over by it's acts

of force, of course, but there are other ways:

Recall that fable of the sun and wind;

It emphasises, concretely displays

the way of love & life, that won't rescind,

but takes account of their responses too;

compared with plain ol' pow-er, force of arms,

which doesn't  ever think to pique or woo.

Oh God we need your help, your love's own charms.

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*  I'm thinking (& I might be wrong) that light is here used, in the term "light of life", as a model of, or picture for, something. Light is energy abounding and "waving against itself" and it is this quality that makes it able to slightly "bend corners". See Dr. Christopher S. Baird's physics article.

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"..Children are a gift from the Lord. They are a real blessing…" Psalm 127:3-5 

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the mechanic?

 Txt to me: How was the mechanicing ?

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Set up, with plugs, leads, batt'ry, water, oil,..

When key from pocket's in ignition and

is turned, I think I'll know whether it's spoiled, 

and then Replace, or Keep, what's there at hand.

Mechanicing has got me to this spot.

The call for dinner came last night before 

I got to turn the key. I'd like a lot

to just run down and do it now, well more 

or less, i'd have to dress and get that key.

I'm hoping to, some time today, but first

I have to check how things go inside me.

I'm on a training program. Best, & Worst...

Its stakes are higher, this whole self's in deep.

Mechanicing is needed. God, help me!

God helped me with that car. So I won't sleep!

I'll ask for help with self. And then, "We'll see."

This opp-or-tune-it-y is here right now,

to learn to love, from one who is just that.

Or else turn to technology somehow

(the stuff we make), to help me grow. I sat

here for a while, unsure; now I see more.

Don't want to learn to be mechanical,

I want to grow to be what he fore-saw,

I'll go to who is not tyranical,

the God who is the source of not just just-

-ice, but also of mercy, born from love,

which trumps the other tricks, of course it must!

For all that's good has come from it above.

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intimacy - 9

 

Back-story: I feel unappreciated by a mate. Instead of covering over and absorbing a lack of love and care, i feel a reactionary, self-defensive thing growing in me. A strong, bubbling up, bubbling over thing, & I realize my own inadaquacy, immaturity, and concurrently my own inability to be different; and at the same time i realize that the creative love which made this universe can cover over & absord something like this very easily. I recall that this, this is the day (time and place) that the Lord has made, and i can celebrate all of reality, even my own immaturity & inability to move forward "on my own". Then I recall the gospel of God: I need never be (or live) on my own again! I claim this option and try to describe (creatively, like creative love does things), this journey and re-realization that i've been on for the last 15 min. Even trying to truly describe it, helps me to keep making this choice and cement it as my creative choice.

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Inta me, see!

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Oh God, i have no love in me at all.

The "me" that is an animal has not

the "hesed* " given to us each when small.

When children in our parents' house we got

well, given, lavished (some of us, at least)

the kind of loyal-love* that does not stop

and is the stuff that's tougher than a beast,

and made the universe, keeps this whole shop.

So, when i am connected straight to you,

like hose that is connected to a tap,

it seems your love's available to do

whatever you would ask for from this chap1.

Now i recall God's message, brief, but full,

and set myself to live no other way;

"With God, nothing shall be impossible.2"

And when I see what you've done i can say

I do believe that fully, in this world,

Creative Love can do creative things.

As Jesus' new creation is unfurled

I'm not surprised if people could grow wings

not from the source of our technology,

our ingenuity, the wisdom of

this world that now rebells against you, we

are still so immature, … small fetus gods.

For we are not the sources yet ourselves,

though we can influence your world a bit.

I need your love & meaning and your health,

and choose to live with you (not just be shit3).

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*  hesed (or kesed, or chesed) is the Hebrew word used in the old Hebrew Bible for the loyal-love shown by God in listening to the cries, and somehow getting involved in the affairs of his people, coming down, & getting his hands dirty. It is a refrain through a number of the psalms, in some repeated every second line throughout the psalm, for emphasis, and to communicate the bedrock nature of God's loyal-love, the  enfolding, encircling, continuing nature of God's hesed, as the prime-mover in their own story moving forward (e.g. Psalms 118 &136).

1 things like the second greatest commandment: Love your neighbour as yourself, & the two commands Jesus gave his loyal followers: "Love your enemies" & "Love each other as I have loved you". And that summary statement describing the core of GOD; this person's (God's) actions, and motivation: "God IS Love!"

2 "With God, nothing shall be impossible." This statement (or one very similar to it) is made several times, in various settings, in the Greek language New Testament of the Christian scriptures. (e.g. the angel announcing to Mary about a holy thing to be born from her while she remained a virgin - Luke 1:37, Gen 18:14, or Jesus responding to his followers' amazement at the intervention (or cessation of intervention) of creative love in choosing unlikely people, or sustaining a living tree, itself the symbol of the Jewish temple connecting God with his people- Luke 18:27, Matthew 17:20; 19:26; Mark 10:27). It is a statement of summary, looking back at the Hebrew bible, and of hopefulness, looking forward to the New thing God is doing, and is about to do more of: renewing the whole Creation, and his own family of children.

3  In talking with an athiestic friend this same day, he was describing family life, sex, government as currupt and animalistic and doomed to be (compared at least to our younger hopes and dreams) basically shit. I was saying something like "I see what you are saying, and, if we were to be left to ourselves, I agree, but one example on the planet, like Yeshua, proves there is another way to live. I'm choosing to follow him, and his way!"

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