2022-04-30

Bodily troubles

 Thanks. Love you. 



God, thank you for this daughter of yourself,

not only that her beauty is, exists;

but also for the gift of her, and health

of body, mind, and will, that she enlists


in bringing to ou-r fam-i-ly, & friends,

in ways that are appropriate and right.

Please give her grace to face the starts & ends,

that bring big changes, as with day & night.


And please give us, but spesh'ly please give her,

your healing of this cavernoma thing:

that nerves in legs and arms will not infer

the heat and cold and pressure, or pain-ing,


that's incorrectly then produced by blood

that gets where blood should never oughta be.

That boldness, creativity, would flood

our mindset, choices made by us, so she,


and we together as a unit, might

reflect creative options from above,

in managing these "unclean spirits" right,

and resting ourselves fully on your love.


We trust that you will lead us by the thread

of what your love has woven for us both.

Indeed as we look back, we see you led

us up to here through obstacles we loathe,


would have attempted to pass in between,

much less devise a path that went clear through.

Here we're depending not on what we've seen,

we choose again to throw ourselves on you.




Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Cor. 4:16‭-‬18 NIVUK




walking or working



[Working! Or Playing?

'coz "this" is "t his"; 

now "this" is "our"

in the ours of the night]



Oh God, within the night upon my bed

I think, and try to word what wisdom wills, 

with your help; What is happening? What's said?

What turns this life is taking? and, What spills?


And you don't seem to be quite nonchalant,

you're leaning forward, hoping I will too,

suspending dis-believe, that's what I want,

the other part responds to what you do.


And jumps right in to bed - the God of gods,

who's worthy, and who enters into me,

is willing to be partnered - with what odds?

- of such a partnership - were King with me?


Allegiance to the reign and rule of who

is making humans up, and keeps the link

suspended even when their bodies do

not keep together, or get out of sync.


I start to understand what's meant by "grace"

when you dare to be present with a dot,

and put more dots together in a face,

and draw right into being what was not.


And draw the Most(-est) Wanted Man alive.

And then you start to animate the pic.

And help it breathe the air that you've contrived

to really be there in the drawing, - quick!


And I'm allowed within your very great

Dream, in this Dreamtime story that unfolds.

My standing under you, and joining straight-

away with what you do elates my soul.




Psalm 63 NLT


O God, you are my God;

    I earnestly search for you.

My soul thirsts for you;

    my whole body longs for you

in this parched and weary land

    where there is no water.

2 I have seen you in your sanctuary

    and gazed upon your power and glory.

3 Your unfailing love is better than life itself;

    how I praise you!

4 I will praise you as long as I live,

    lifting up my hands to you in prayer.

5 You satisfy me more than the richest feast.

    I will praise you with songs of joy.


6 I lie awake thinking of you,

    meditating on you through the night.

7 Because you are my helper,

    I sing for joy in the shadow of your wings.

8 I cling to you;

    your strong right hand holds me securely.


9 But those plotting to destroy me will come to ruin.

    They will go down into the depths of the earth.

10 They will die by the sword

    and become the food of jackals.

11 But the king will rejoice in God.

    All who swear to tell the truth will praise him,

    while liars will be silenced.


Psalm 63 NLT



2022-04-29

BirthdayBoyo

 



Txt2Me: Hi mum and dad, I think cause it's raining tomorrow we'll have to call off Boyo's outdoor park party, but we'd still love for family to come over!


TxtBack:

I hope the beautiful Woman can still make it.


But I'll be down here in Victoria... unless God does some of his astro-travel work on my spirit, or even that immediate bodily travel!



Great Love to you two parents of the boy,

and to the birthday boy himself as well.

I think he is a model of the joy

that all God's children may have. And that smell...


of nappy that needs changing, that surrounds

some children, will remind us of our sense

of smell that is alive and well, I've found

some things that draw you, or push you, and hence


you're not so likely to just sit and be,

or stay enseated, sitting on the fence.

A smell can be quite motivating, see.

Oh may our smell do well, and be well spent.




But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task? Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.

2 Cor. 2:14‭-‬17 NIVUK




Yea! Made it to Elmore...

 



Yea… made it to Elmore. 16km from where I was dropped off this morning, which was where i got to yesterday arvo. 

I had my charged phone, some trail-mix, and dates Mum gave me in Qld, in my pocket, a plastic poncho folded in my back pocket and a 600ml water bottle my daughter-in-law gave me in one hand. … jogging, walking, talking on the phone, taking pics or videos, trying to put life responses into words. Times to talk with two workmen putting Granny's letterbox out at the front fence, a lady selling old wares (and puppets), at the front of her shop. Getting a lovely coffee at The Oasis opposite the railway station, with a little quiche and piece of fruit cake.

Thought this plaque was interesting in the coffee shop:

Specially for me, in my present activity…


I cleared a bit of a table up and gave the plates to the lady whom i had paid $11.80 to for a large coffee, a small piece of quiche, and some fruit cake…

Look what I got (& I've just eaten half of my quiche, and some salad):

What fun. What a morning. 


Lovely to not have any pack to have to carry.






OLD TO NEW WORLD VIEW



Despite that science tells us "This world is

not what it seems on outside, to the feel,

with layers upon layers forming things",

I still believe that our ol' world is real.


Our scientific story tells us that

despite what we all see here (think we "know"),

there's layers of "community" which mat

together, and which interleave.. (quite so):《1


Inside, within each body, making up

the living ones, are individu'l "cells",

or living creatures that can be corrupt-

ed, or combined to make a host where dwells


the multicelled "community" we see

that's planted right before us "on" (or "in")

our ground of being. Even you and me.

And these can be disrupted or can win!


The ways that these communities would seize

things 'round about to aid their tiny parts,

to work together: shelter, feed, and ease

their life, to bring a thriving from their starts,


are called in this Our world "to feed", & "clothe

and shelter", self or fam'ly, other lives.

The old words from Our world that covered both

are "love", & then there's "peace"- which meant "life thrives".


But smaller yet, each body that exists,

of rocks, or gasses, animals or plants;

(and irrespective of "life" tagged to its

existence as an entity, per chance..)


is made of smaller atoms, molecules,

or other things that kind of are like "seas".

But smaller yet (these aren't just words of fools)

are forces "circling", balancing with ease.


Where either particles or waves "impart"

existence to those higher levels too.

But here we haven't even made a start

on bigger things, like Galaxies and U-


ni-verse, or other categ'ries rehearsed,

like Supernova, Nebulae, and Giants,

Dwarves, and other stars that shoot and burst,

to cook up compounds, elements and ions


from which all of the rest can start to "be".

Invisible dimensions in this way

we start to understand, and maybe "see"

within our "mind's eye" - as they used to say.


But still our story makes more sense, or less

of all dimensions we've encountered here,

since we were born - to order and to mess,

with this ol' world. - And this is where I cheer


myself as I move on, and others too.

The world we "started" in, that let us learn

about dimensions and these worlds that you

have just now been reminded of, don't spearn!


The story that's apparent: God made this

whole world with more dimensions than you'd poke

at with a stick, does not seem so remiss

and starts to look less like it was a joke!


"The best is yet to come", as AA found

in fact, through living in this re-al world.

And there's a higher power hanging round

to see if we would reach out and be curled


within the love of biggest Dad, or Mum,

and let the Great Creator's fam-il-y

look after us and grow us, and then some..

towards more of a nature that is free


to love back, as we have ourselves been loved.

And that's why most religions in this world

admire, and think good-life was surely gloved

within the life, that we have mostly hurled


our insults at, and blamed him for our faults

and misdemeanours, laziness, and such.

It's him I would commend to you. Us dolts,

we killed the model human God loved much -


the second Adarm (and would kill his Eve,

that God brings from him while he's "not around").

In jealousy and ignorance, we'd weave

a net to catch them yet, like beasts been found


and named. So if you ask me to I'll tell

the story of the glory of God "THERE",

who loves his kids, and wants them to do well,

take on creative love, and learn to share.




《1》 physically enact this by interleaving the fingers from each hand with those of the other

morning walk-er



My God, I'm walking in this world that's fresh 

today and seeing all these dewdrops hung

announcing diamond-like with colours spesh-

ly crafted on the edges of each one.


Just like a ring of covenanted trōth,

that leads to singing, working strong and hard,

to grow a living love, that's more than both

the individu'l entities on guard.


And now I'm in an arbour under trees,

with all these diff'rent bird calls up above,

the soft sun's shade is speckled by all these

and really, it's not hard to recall love.


Some little birds are flying just ahead

from clump to clump of grasses on  the side.

Just like those little children at some wed-

dings, holding flowers just before the bride.


The groom seems out of sight, for just this mo-

meant, as it's just before the wedding's here,

this thriving country sparkles with the fo-

ment of the love that's unrequited, near


enough, it feels, just here, "alone" on road,

in comp'ny with creative love itself,

but learning as I look and bear the load

that love itself prescribed, and gain in health.


Just like a ring in covenanted trōth,

that leads to singing, working hard, with strength,

to grow a living love, that's more than both

good feelings & good suffering, at length.




These picture(s) and video(s) might be of no use at all. … They don't communicate the best bits;   the 3 dimentional-ness, and wonten beauty of the big and small (sky, clouds, horizon, trees from a distance, and trees up close, grass heads & little sperm-like wriggly tailed grass-seeds, and spider webs, the breeze on a face, the intermittent and wonderfully varied birdcalls, and cheeps, and chirrups, and warbles etc…


Let alone a phone-call from a daughter and child, or friend, to say hello, while this is all happening… Rich, beyond measure & words, and beyond what can be passed on through any one communication method.


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OLD TO NEW WORLD VIEW



Despite that science tells us "This world is

not what it seems on outside, to the feel,

with layers upon layers forming things",

I still believe that our ol' world is real.


Our scientific story tells us that

despite what we all see here (think we "know"),

there's layers of "community" which mat

together, and which interleave.. (quite so):《1


Inside, within each body, making up

the living ones, are individu'l "cells",

or living creatures that can be corrupt-

ed, or combined to make a host where dwells


the multicelled "community" we see

that's planted right before us "on" (or "in")

our ground of being. Even you and me.

And these can be disrupted or can win!


The ways that these communities would seize

things 'round about to aid their tiny parts,

to work together: shelter, feed, and ease

their life, to bring a thriving from their starts,


are called in this Our world "to feed", & "clothe

and shelter", self or fam'ly, other lives.

The old words from Our world that covered both

are "love", & then there's "peace"- which meant "life thrives".


But smaller yet, each body that exists,

of rocks, or gasses, animals or plants;

(and irrespective of "life" tagged to its

existence as an entity, per chance..)


is made of smaller atoms, molecules,

or other things that kind of are like "seas".

But smaller yet (these aren't just words of fools)

are forces "circling", balancing with ease.


Where either particles or waves "impart"

existence to those higher levels too.

But here we haven't even made a start

on bigger things, like Galaxies and U-


ni-verse, or other categ'ries rehearsed,

like Supernova, Nebulae, and Giants,

Dwarves, and other stars that shoot and burst,

to cook up compounds, elements and ions


from which all of the rest can start to "be".

Invisible dimensions in this way

we start to understand, and maybe "see"

within our "mind's eye" - as they used to say.


But still our story makes more sense, or less

of all dimensions we've encountered here,

since we were born - to order and to mess,

with this ol' world. - And this is where I cheer


myself as I move on, and others too.

The world we "started" in, that let us learn

about dimensions and these worlds that you

have just now been reminded of, don't spearn!


The story that's apparent: God made this

whole world with more dimensions than you'd poke

at with a stick, does not seem so remiss

and starts to look less like it was a joke!


"The best is yet to come", as AA found

in fact, through living in this re-al world.

And there's a higher power hanging round

to see if we would reach out and be curled


within the love of biggest Dad, or Mum,

and let the Great Creator's fam-il-y

look after us and grow us, and then some..

towards more of a nature that is free


to love back, as we have ourselves been loved.

And that's why most religions in this world

admire, and think good-life was surely gloved

within the life, that we have mostly hurled


our insults at, and blamed him for our faults

and misdemeanours, laziness, and such.

It's him I would commend to you. Us dolts,

we killed the model human God loved much -


the second Adarm (and would kill his Eve,

that God brings from him while he's "not around").

In jealousy and ignorance, we'd weave

a net to catch them yet, like beasts been found


and named. So if you ask me to I'll tell

the story of the glory of God "THERE",

who loves his kids, and wants them to do well,

take on creative love, and learn to share.




《1》 physically enact this by interleaving the fingers from each hand with those of the other