I made it to Narrabri, amidst a lot of very polite and thoughtful truck drivers and car drivers. I try to walk on the right hand side shoulder of the road, so I can see what's coming. On blind corners though, I walk on the outside of the corner so I'm more visible. When I'm on the right hand side of the road, if there is no one coming the opposite way to them, vehicles coming towards me (especially trucks) will often pull out further from me, or indicate that they can & will, with their flicker, & then I don't need to get right off the shoulder of the bitumen and I'm not blown about as much. If they don't go wide, I realize there is probably someone coming from behind me, going the same way as me, and I try to get right off the road it there's not a real good bitumen shoulder. A lot give a little toot to say G'day, and 90% will wave or nod back to me. What a lovely day - acknowledging people. Another day shared with creative love.
It turns out that Dave, (The Presbyterian Minister, who is a friend of a new friend in Coona, along with his wife Gae would like to have offered a bed for the night, but they are full up at home, so they are putting me up at the Aalbany Motel on the way into town.
And would you believe it a little independant church group New Life, whom I said G'day to on the way into town, looked after by Keith & Margaret offered a bed and shower if the motels were all booked. Talk about thoughtful and kind. Looks like I won't need to take up their offer, but thanks for it anyway.
Dave and Gae collected my washing to do tonight, and he and his wife are taking me out for dinner at the RSL tonight. Then we went home and they let me play with their piano, made a lovely coffee (on rice milk), showed me some of their home made, printed children's books, read, listened to David Suchet read Psalm 146, gave me a box to make a new top for my trolley, and helped me fix my water skin, Gave me back my clean washing etc. A lot of fun.
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How thoughtful and kind. Thanks you two!
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
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