Healer, heal yourself!

(but, First-things first!)

So what's it mean to go as we are sent?

And how is your reign, your rule over all?

And is it true that your scent's truly meant

to be sent out as we just live "on call".

And is it true that all things work for good

to those who listen to you call and come.

Or do I think that only power could,

along with strength, bring healing and un-numb.

And what was it that Christ's apostle said?-

He'd "glory in his weaknesses" for then

God's kind of strength, the strength of kindness, led

to understanding for those who see when

the light is shining in the darkest place.

The Christ light has its own authority

that's real and it shines from his lovely face,

is brighter than the sun, yet some can't see.

And he is able even to use that

unseeing part of who we really are.

If we will offer all we are, he'll bat 

on ou-r side. We'll un-der-stand (not spar).

And this leads me again to see the gift

that "un-seeing*", & "un-knowing°" can be

if we will let that "other knowing°" lift

us up, upon our Abba-Father's knee.

And during this our infancy's quick time,

if we will keep on asking you for help,

instead of just assuming we're sublime,

recalling too that we are this God's whelp!

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° e.g. Thomas who did NOT see what all the other apostles saw. And Jesus' personal word to him, & to all his apostles, about greater blessing available through that condition (John 20:19‭-‬29). And the way God used a time of "UN-seeing" in Paul's life (Acts 9:1-22), to help him see new things, and see everything newly; and the way the spirit of God led him to spread out that unseeingness, to another once (Acts 13:6-12; I think he was hoping for a similar opportunity for that man, because of the way God's grace works with those who try to work against him).

*  the "Cloud of unknowing", plus the apostle Paul's request to God for removal of his "thorn in the flesh" (2Cor 12:5-10, noting God's response, then Paul's (so responsive) response to God's response), and his confidence that ".. we will know - as we have been known" (1 Cor 13:12)

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