creative love..

 ..forms, & transforms (death into life) etc..

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And he was "gathered to his fathers^", so

it speaks of Abraham, and Israel too;

which maybe speaks of not "where he would go"

so much as of relationships, and who.

A gathering's essential, requisite,

for each to add to whole, in meaningful

and modulating ways, quite exquisite,

fulfilling and also for filling full!

To gather up together, and also

to come together as a choice at least,

but no choice less than chief delight to go

and come, and go, the movement IS the feast!

Not just some movement, as though it per se

was virtuous, a wind of gas that moves

to lower pressure places in the way

the weather forecast-ers try to improve.

But movement with, or in the comp'ny of,

an other who is as you, at your source.

And anything that aids, abetts such nov-

el move- meant as it is, to grow of course

not just by formulas of maths, or laws

but by the rule of heséd*, chief delight,

the undergirding principle which shaws

up ev'rything, and by it we have sight.

It brings this world, creatively to be,

for fun, and for enjoyment filling up.

It's bouncing off our best hopes that we'd see,

and overflowing ev'rybody's cup.

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^  Genesis 25:8; 35:29; 49:29-33; Deut 30:50

*   hesed, the Hebrew word often translated into English as everlasting love, or loyal love or faithful love, or covenant keeping faithfulness, or loving-kindness, or steadfast love, and then into Greek as agapé.

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