parable - on seeing (and modelling)

 

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I find I'm often saying "I don't know",

and sometimes feel some silliness in this,

then i remember, that that's not the go,

I can be asking for, receiving wiz-

dom (from the only wise Creative Love),

and that includes abilities to see

(that's firstly just to not be blind, or shove

what's seen into another categ'ry,

but also to let other options come

into my mind, to then take root & grow

so that creative options are then some-

how entering the world I get to know.

This parable below that happened here

in Strathy at the Highway toilet block,

is helping me recall, and then to steer

towards a way of being that might shock

some others, even me, a while ago,

and I am somewhat scared, I must admit,

of being quite addicted to this flow,

or way of handle-ing the stuff we hit.

I wonder if this freedom might be meant

for harnessing by disciplines that trace

along the lines that "Human"* truly went,

which starts with "my self" dying in this place.

But then Creative Love gives back new selves

to those who would still learn to trully be

continu'lly a-growing in true health

so that we'll grow like this great god, to be.

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*  "Human", is possibly one way of seeing what Jesus was calling himself when he most often called himself Son of Man (according to 3 of the 4 First Century detailed accounts of his life and teaching). Some modern scholars translate it as "Son of Humanity", in Hebrew or Aramaic it was "Son of Adam", and in the writings regarding the Jewish  prophets Ezekiel and Jeremiah it simply meant "a human being", though 2 Daniel passages pointedly speak of one who "looked like a son of Adam", meaning "looked like a human being", but this one was second only to "the ancient of days" (GOD). Like the first Adam, he had been given rulership of everything in the (heavens? &) Earth. But he was actually worthy of it, unlike the first Adam who gave it away, and it was corrupted. Jesus strangely doesn't claim this edge of things for himself, he infers it, and waits for it to be conferred on him.

This clues in with the records we have: "Then Jesus called the crowd and his disciples to him. “If anyone wants to come with me,” he told them, “he must forget self, carry his cross, and follow me." Mark 8:34

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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.

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

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