Working in God's world

Txt2me:

Paul. Normally would love to do this (catch up over a cuppa). Still tied up with (a friend) and the caravan however. ..

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TxtFromMe:

Oh God, please help them, bless them with  

ideas,

& wisdom for creative ways to move

this project forward, 

help them to see clear

so they will learn from what's been done by who've

gone right ahead. And let them get the gist

of kinds of answers to such problems which

have been tackled before, then help them list

the parts, and overcome the hurdles pitched

at them in trying to bring bigger hopes

and purposes, or outcomes with the stuff

of Earth, while trying to make do, & cope

so as to make good use, and make enough.

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Oh, I love you Yahweh, my lord, & my GOD!

 

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Your ways are higher (& deeper, and broader, and fuller) than ours, and I will praise you!

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Please use this body to inhabit here 

this Earth of yours, that you said was so good.

And when I happen to look up, and hear

the sound of Yahweh walking, may I, could

I still go walking with you? Enoch did!

Now I've been caught within your "trap", and I

would gladly follow you. Yes you are hid

within this world, where people love to try

this godliness with great contentment too.

But I would not just try to copy on

my own, for that's a dead end "way to you"

It really is uniting that brings song

to come & be together, in your house,

the one you've gifted special-ly to us.

We hear that you are quiet as a mouse,

and say to us to eat you up. No fuss.

You say that we're your home. But that's absurd.

(Except that I am husband to a wife,

as such I know your own statement. That word-

's been said to whom I love more than my life)

I hear from your good prophets* I'm on track;

I'm learning to live deeper in your self,

and let you deeper into me, and back

& forth, just as true love would bring good health.

The pictures in this world are mysteries

they're portals, gates, or doors to other realms.

I'm trav'ling with you, through the heat and freeze,

in partnership, though you are at the helm!

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1Kings 19:11-13, Zechariah 4:6; Hosea 1:7 (Hebrew, +4 English translations, + 4 more English translations) heeding, responding to, taking note of, the promptings of God (the presence of God, the breath of God, the gentle whisper of God)

The sound of a gentle whisper. 

Not by might, not by power, but by my .. (sheer silence followed by my gentle promptings).. says the Lord.

Yahweh, creative love, was about to pass by 

.. (please don't pass on passed us, or pass over us, your presence is our salvation from our insanity and falling shortnesses)

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We ask you to heed this our request: 

Please help us to heed you.

Soft heart, soft voice, soft eyes.. 

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Psalm 46

Night out? or in?

Txt2me: Hi Paul, sorry for slow reply, was in the dinner and bed time routine 🙂 Thanks for the invite, but my wife has dancing tomorrow night, so I'll have the kids for dinner. Hope to make it work another time.

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TextFromMe: No probs. Go well with those precious ones. 

God help this man to serve those  little ones

whom you have given to his care for this..

this very purpose, with what fuss & fun

suffuses life on Earth that's yours (& his*)

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* The ruler God has chosen to act as his agent, in ruling God's Earth.

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when it hurts ... ?

 Txt2me: Just busted my Achilles - heading to hospital soon. please pray for a good result

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Oh God, give wisdom, creativity, 

and insight to the Doctors, Nurses, &

the radiographers who help to see

what's happened in that other secret land

under the skin of this man's ankle, leg,

& foot where that ol' rope has seemed to burst,

and use his presence in that place to peg

your tabernacle, there that seems so cursed.

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Reflecting on Matthew ch's 5 & 6

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The God who makes himself to be "unseen"

by human beings in this stage of life,

does not himself need our good gifts or mean

to show us that we could take him as wife.

He comes as husband to the human race,

as groom who would look after and provide

for who would need his food and clothes and space

that's sheltered and could be a place to hide

as well as still, of hospitality.

He knows our needs for help, and weaknesses,

our stage of life, and immaturity.

Because of love, he'll help; that's what he says!

And in the private place (unseen by men

& women, round about who watch and see

a lotl of what transpires here), or when

folk are asleep, unconscious of what he

is doing ev'ry moment, he the Most

High, only wise, inhabits such as these:

(espesh'ly owned or haunted by his ghost)

each quiet time of solitude, since he's

the one who looks for, seeks for, honesty

& truth at core and heart of who we are,

responsive love, creates, will surely be

alive to where we head, and then how far

we've come, and time it takes to travel well,

then time we've got available. He'll tell

what's possible if we will banish hell

from his good world, not give it space to dwell.

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Please pray, he'd say…

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Please help him out there God, to understand.

And care not if the words come thick 'n' fast,

or slow and steady, or don't come to hand

at all; to rest as small child at the last,

compared to the creative love that hopes

the best for all its children in this world.

And share the best he's got, that helps him cope

so others coming after, are not hurled

into the pit, despondency can be.

You've helped already, him reach out just now.

And join with him - do all of us,  that's we

who've walked through (or lived in) that pit somehow.

It seems he'll need you, when he cannot see,

espesh'ly then, to trust a good mate's word,

to let your help be that, to do what he

might only half want to. But quite absurd-

-ly you hold to the best things we could mean.

It is your Way - where-ever your love is, 

it does that well, it is not fair, it seems

unjust, maybe dishonest, but for his

face shining through the mists of history,

(the protocols, and principles, ideals,

maybe mechanics too, don't work for me

(and maybe not for him, or others feel

quite diff'rent things than many do at times.

I'm glad Yeshua's life, was lived in times

& territ'ry then occupied, with fines,

enforcements. But he chose to make love's rhymes.

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"Falling short of" good possibilities..

 

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Dear Father, 

the Daddy of this small (3yr old) child,

what way will move me more like my big bro.?

It's how to spring from, work with, love that's wild,

creative, & expansive, trusting, so,

I'm open as he was, to who would choose

to be that open of themselves, reward-

ing who is willing to be of those whose

small lives are put down on the line, accord-

ing to what they are "gunning for" in fact,

and loving not their lives, will go for broke.

I see he did it, in each word, each act

to his disciples. Each apostle/bloke

was given all their choices, much and more,

encouraged to use well investments made.

But then to move along the path before

them, chosen by responses in the shade,

out of the public's view (but not of God's)

where lives are lived and made up of each choice

along the way we take, which might seem odd

so much but is the case for girls & boys.

Yet to those there in charge, he's quite aloof,

to them he's saying "Woe to you! You'll be

thrown down to hell!..." or making quite a spoof

of them & generalizing much, so we

are left with the impression (that he gave)

that humans, the most dangerous of all,

may not be fully trusted to behave

as God's own children. For there was "a Fall"!

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Cam

 

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God bless ..de man. This son of the Most High

Creative Love that keeps the stars in place, 

that by the lesser light and greater, why? - 

- & ev'ry element that leaves a trace,

keeps all this Universe existing so

that life as we all know it, can  portray

its metaphoric semblance to "the go"

where love creates more options than tongues say.

And grant him wisdom's patience and anger,

to wait & watch, & trust and act, in turn,

and scorn what suffering's real (not just Manga),

for honour's call to drown, be stoned, to burn.

And give what wisdom's needed in this fight,

for hiding from a seeker when that's right,

and spinging traps when it's no time for flight,

and keeping soul clear living in the light!

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.. de man; 

Protection of the Sun's strong rays on you!

With quenching of the winds strong rain as well.

The wisdom, & the darkness that can brew

within the perfect storm, where quietness dwells.

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Blessings abound

 

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Text2me: Hi Paul. 

Thanks for trying again for us to catch up. Yes, Saturday or Sunday evening are good spaces to aim for.

We're in … Qld, and about to drive back (7hrs) home today. 

Sorry to hear about your Covid battle. Sounds like it smacked you real bad? 

We've had it once (that we know of). Wasn't fun. Like a bad flu, only different.

May you be blessed with an overwhelming sense of his presence, bringing healing, love, peace and joy this day!

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Amen.

God make that man and his good wife as well

as can be well expected in this world -

beginning, both of heaven & of hell,

with better yet to come! The Christ has told!

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good & true ..

 

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I thank you Lord, for these folk in my life,

and thank you too for sending me to theirs.

Adventures are admixtures, with much strife,

disasters, sickness, - limits that impair;

on t'other side of things there's pleasures too, 

with culture's sense of humour, fun, and tasks

achieved, and given, so to serve those who

you've sent us to (sometimes no person asks),

& goodness-es to see, wisdom to  glean, 

& rightly to admire, sometimes receive,

with understanding, insight. Knowledge teams

with stuff like that. And this I do believe.

And as I grow, and understand the way

of things, and see the challenges ahead,

it's fun, and needful, sometimes hard, I say

to keep on being disciplined, instead

of throwing off the traces I don't feel

like foll'wing through on now (above that all).

I'm glad that sage sent words of wisdom, real

and true as me and you (& one is Paul):

"No grown-ups ever spend time where they'd spearn

to - where God is! For only immature,

small children will live under, look to, learn

from who is over them.*" This would insure

their growth in this adventure (some call life),

but same goes with dimensions on ahead,

since what that good wise sage said, like a knife

will cut both ways - bring on; & leave for dead!

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*  You probably already know who that is, & can give a quote or two of that sage's words.

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"my beloved.."

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My Mum & Dad, I'm glad you put your hands

into the God's, as well as each other's,

for he, the fount of wisdom, understands,

and oversees, as do best fathers/ mothers.

He oversees, though's often overlooked.

He loves to bless. The most bless-ed of all.

In truth possess-es, more than fish once hooked

& fought against and landed, big or small.

The fish he fishes for are not so low,

they're people, sons & daughters of himself,

whom he has made to choose, as just gods know,

so he won't just control by bribes of wealth.

Unless the wealth is just relationship.

A friendship & an open-ness that would

be looking so to bless, to give, then slip

out of the picture, as only he could.

So "seen", at least for now, is metaphor.

But "known" is truly possible, at least

as two year olds have known their parents for

their whole two years (though they're still partly "beast").

To grow a human means to grow their choice;

and covenant or fealty is the stuff

that makes women & men, from girls & boys;

the loyal love, khesed* (of God), is tough!

So, thanks for ev'ry time you've given glimpse

of what it means to live that out on Earth.

Within our circles (truly our ellipse'),

we've come to see what friendship's really worth♤.

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*  khesed is the Hebrew term behind English translations like loyal-love,  everlasting love, loving kindness, eternal love, steadfast love, covenant love, whole-of-life-deep-love, as in "The steadfast love of Yahweh never ceases.." (Lam 3:22), or "..his steadfast love endures forever" (Psalm 136; repeated enough for every letter of the English alphabet), or as the apostle Paul translates it into the Greek word (agapé); he says "Love never ceases" (1Cor 13)

♤  “But you, Israel my servant, you are the people that I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham, my friend. Isaiah 41:8 GNBUK

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. James 2:23 NET

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de l i g h t*

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Oh God please make my Katie, who's your girl,

your daughter, woman, lovely (as you are),

to be a blessing to those in your world

who come in contact with her, like a star

displays some of the energy of that 

Big Bang that set the Universe to BE,

and set the stars to cycle, so (Howzat!)

the Elements for life could fine-al-ly

exist, and then be cobbled, here in space.

Oh may her smile, and thoughtful acts & speech

reflect intensions, motives as your face

might if they could see it. She is (y)our peach!

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*  KatiE refers to "Katrina Ellen" & means pure light.

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