one more..

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A father's worded message to his son;

"Just trust me son, you will grow up like me.

The process can't be stopped, once it's begun,

for no one else can interfere, you'll see

that bit by bit, and line by line you'll learn;

until you start to see the world like God,

that's Yahweh-Lord, creative love won't spurn

the Earth that he created - it's not odd -

it's meant to give expression to  Heaven,

to here enflesh, embody what is true,

to draw upon and grow to show, leaven-

ing me-a matter to be more than you

might guess from just mat-eer-yal-ism's take

on ev'rything. It squanders, as it must, 

it sees just what an animal can make:

of me-a wind that's blown on me-a dust,

of love & war, & justice, hatred too.

It doesn't understand a symphony.

So step by step, we follow the One who

fulfilled what heaven's reign is meant to be,

to find ourselves (well, one day borne through Earth)

out of this me-a flesh-&-blood life to

God's kind of caring life with God's own mirth,

and joy, and crooning rule with  wisdom too,

which rules, as partner of creative love,

to make a new creation, as was planned,

No thing, that's on its own, but 'from above'

renewed & energised, as a HU..MAN.

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• ...And because you belong to him, the power[a] of the life-giving Spirit has freed you[b] from the power of sin that leads to death… The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you. … For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children[g] of God….Now we call him, “Abba, Father.”[i]  For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children. And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering. Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are... And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[p] neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.(see Romans 8)

• And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by (its being run on) human desires… (see 2 Peter 1)

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