Reflections on episodes 1 & 2 of a podcast by two blokes on hurry & husstle, that we listened to on our road trip to an AGM & holidays
Our hurry and our hustle aren't at all
the necessary things that they can seem,
in fact they might not play more than a small
part in a godly life! - that's what I mean.
And more than that, though work and rest are part
of what we're given by the God above,
they're worth no more than any burp or fart
a little child does, to earn parents' love.
The little one does not know all about
the process of it's growing up to be
more like its parents, till it can hang out
with them, when they declare "You're just like me!"
And so in trust of parents who know more,
who speak in love to save their children from
more hardships than they need, what they'll abhore;
the child's obedience from love is long
and far, the winner, honouring what's apt
to bring the best, and in that way "success",
is this entrusting self to who is rapt
in love and loves the chickens in their nest.
We don't decide to move from stone to chick,
although we do have some real parts to play.
The myst'ry of the change (which is magic)
occurs within each egg, from DNA.
As it just sits and rests within the dark
of shell, but too within the warmth and care,
of mother chook, and where she chose to park
her nest, so that the best start happens there.
Work from our identity, not for our identity.
Faithfulness is success
Honouring the process of becoming
The Day starts at sunset.
The week starts at shabbat.
As a society we've moved from people (by and large, in the pre-industrial world), being craftsman, to people being, through our focus on industry and money, a mindless cog in a machine…. (& creating our very identity through our work). Well, let's move back!
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