Ask these brothers...

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Last night we eight had beers, or drink of sorts

(that's after bush-dance), at the Fed. Hotel.

And while we sat, we started to cavort,

some questing to do, to ask & to tell.

Maybe, like Ian Johanson said, "The few,

the high trust situation might allow"

for real questing to wrestle down the "who"

of what it means to follow him somehow

(since, to the most of us, we have not "seen"

him, yet we've let his love into our hearts.

We recognize his wisdom, what it means

to choose for his creative love that starts

when we allow it into us and out, 

in ev'ry choice we make, not to be fussed

but to respond in kind (not only doubt),

to him, who's been so kind, for giving such

devotion to the Father of our souls

and also to his boys scattered, on task.

I heard their words, but now see on the whole

I didn't listen well, or quickly ask

some clarifying questions or, to hear

some further bits of stories they enshrine.

So brothers, "I am sorry." It appears

that I'm still immature, & often times

I'm not responding with the grace that's been

so showered on to me, to let me join

in with his plan to build, not to demean.

So thanks for each good question, friends of mine.

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My questing on/

in/ for the "Complex Leg" of the long run:

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What disciplines or rhythms do you train

in now, to listen and tune in to God, 

to take his attitudes on, in the main

expressing them in choices made and trod

in, lived out in his world, and then to learn

to speak this news he's given us to tell

that his reign is, and though it might be spurned 

it's very close, and can make all things "well".

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Ca, Lu, Sa, Ci, Ja, Da, Jo, Pa…

 

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