Offering.. the spirit of life & friendship..

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A sacrifice, an offering up, or back,

to God (creative love, YaHWeH, that's  you);

was round before a temple/ tabernac-

le built by humans; so a friendship true

could be established, and, then tended, grown.

The Earth itself was "Tabernacle", or

a "Temple" for the worshippers soon shown

the "rites" to rightly worship who was core,

more real than what was seen, more to the heart 

and spirit of reality itself.

When God, for humankind, kills beast(s) it starts.

He ushers them outside of Eden's wealth

then from the holy place he keeps them out, 

by means of holy servants at the gate.

To hide their nakedness, their shame at flout-

ing simple clear instructions; grace would wait

and give them skins to wear as clothes instead

of "glorious light" a-shining from their forms

(before the shame that came when they're misled).

Their deaths, as yet unseen, thus "felt" in storms

of high emotion, as was killed, a part -

of this their world, their home, their livestock, art.

And God "spoke" to them then, un-word-ed-ly*,

to help them know how death could cover shame.

These animal's, whom they could learn to rule,

could be the means for them to learn to love,

to come to know their first love, and not fool

with learning from what's lower, not above.

Hence when the son of Adam (& of Eve),

ol' Cain, (and little brother Abel), weave

their offerings to God, implied were aims;

recall God looks past form, right to the heart.

And heart is never static, movement's key,

just as a wave is moving as it "is".

It is affected by the choices we

make, when they make space scaffold-like-to-his.

And God himself speaks to "Adam's first son",

and questions: "Why so downcast?", then implies: 

"If you do right, your off'ring will be one -

accepted (by me)" - "otherwise sin lies.."

And how did God accept it, do you think?

Both Cain & Abel somehow must have known.

Somehow, with word or action (but not wink),

he had communicated, he had shown.

Some hints may be with Sampson's Parents, and 

King David then Elijah, as God showed

his covenanted folk who'd understand

a bit, but still not much, this let's them know!

With moving shrine(s) of skin, & temple too, 

God showed his people that he was with them.

At pentecost new covenant's imbued

with sign of offerings of God, again.

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* recall that God is into training his children to really listen, & to hear, transferring whole-of-life responses involving one's actions and attitudes. Some say that for this kind of communication over 50% of normal human-to-human and human-to-animal communication is non-verbal or "body language", much of God's to his people was pictorial and conceptual, and often his "speech" is action-in-response not even vocal, but even when vocal, not always verbal. The prophet's job is to put God's overall "Message" or the real "Need-at-the-moment" into a life lived/ dramatized/ enacted out, and often creative psalms-or-songs sung, or words uttered, mostly as poetry, where though words are used, it is aiming to touch whole-of-life responses, deeper than the data-receiver part of the human brain/mind.

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