neigh saying neighbour

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Oh Lord, you know about this place where we

are living in your world, with gnostic news,

that we know with the grace and peace of he

who knew much more of hidden things & clues,

of dues owed to the greatest pow'r and judge,

whose justice would be metered to all whose

clear cries for justice drew care not to smudge

the evidence, so all who looked just knew;

so justice would be just as if all knew

reality, and all that happened there,

and knowing that, they'd know what they could do,

if anything, to show a neighbour's care.

And here, you've let us live in house, in street,

near others who are living here as well;

a set up that ensures we'll sometimes meet

our neighbours, to make this place more like hell,

or heaven, as we choose our pathways here.

I'd like to straight a way make good foot paths,

warn by some constant use, with not much fear

of stumbling on them, flattened, & with laughs

that often sound along them, folk appear

with hearts of gold, and hopes for better-ness 

because of what is often happ'ning near.

Now I recall "ho kurios eng-us*"

I must confess I often do forget.

But I recall again a true good friend

and neighbour, who has brought hope (& one debt).

I'll look for options that he has opened^.

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*  "ho kurios eng-us" (Greek: ὁ κύριος ἐγγύς·), meaning "The Lord is at hand" NKJV; or "The  Lord is near." or as J.B.Phillips translates it "Never forget the nearness of your Lord." Philippians 4:5.

^  "Ephphatha" is an Aramaic word, spoken by Jesus to a man who was deaf (& mute?) man who some people brought to Jesus. First he took him away on his own, then he he had pantomimed to him by putting his fingers in the man's ears and after spitting, touched the man's tongue. Then he looked up to heaven. Then he gave a loud sigh or groan, then said this one word. Mark, writing in ancient common Greek, tells his Greek-language readers what the Aramaic word means, by saying in Greek "that is.." & giving this translation immediately after as: "Διανοίχθητι·" that is (in English) "Be opened up!" Mark 7:31-37, and the man could both hear, and speak plainly. Everyone rejoiced.

This Greek word is dianoithēti, and according to the Bible Hub, it is a form of the word dianoigó: to open up completely

Original Word: διανοίγω

Part of Speech: Verb

Transliteration: dianoigó

Phonetic Spelling: (dee-an-oy'-go)

Definition: to open up completely

Usage: I open fully.

HELPS Word-studies

1272 dianoígō (from 1223 /diá, "all the way across" and 455 /anoígō, "the process to open fully") – properly, open fully by completing the process necessary to do so..

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

to open up completely

From dia and anoigo; to open thoroughly, literally (as a first-born) or figuratively (to expound) -- open.

see GREEK dia; see GREEK anoigo

It is interesting to see what other things Jesus was involved in "opening up", or were "opened up" around him:

• his own birth was spoken of as "opening the womb" of his mother Mary, in a Jewish understanding of both child birth, and the first-born (inheritor) Luke 2:23

• of some grief-stricken disciples who did not at first recognize the resurrected Jesus, Luke says that "their eyes were opened" they recognized him, he disappeared from their view, & they ran back to the other disciples Luke 24:31

• in recounting the time spent walking with him, they said didn't he "open up the scriptures" to us Luke 24:32

• When the resurrected Jesus appeared to a gathered group of his disciples, Luke again records that he "opened their minds to understand the scriptures" Luke 24:45

• When Stephen is killed for his spirit-led prophetic testimony regarding Jesus, he looked up, face glowing and said (as a prequel to Daniel's prophecy, which Jesus before him had alluded to and was thus sentenced as worthy of death): "I see heaven opened up, and the Son of Adam (standing) at the right hand side of God" Luke 24:45

• When Paul takes his message to the Roman town of Thyatira, Luke in his second book (Acts) says of a god-fearing business woman  named Lydia, that the Lord "opened up her heart to attend to what was spoken" Acts 16:14

• Luke mentions that Jesus' apostle Paul had a custom with the Jews, of reasoning with them from their scriptures, and that he "opened up (the concept of) the Christ for them proving three things: that the Christ had to suffer and be resurrected and that this Jesus he proclaimed was in fact the Christ" Acts 17:3

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