following the thread…

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One leg after another (one foot after another) -

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This world is now my home 

and transformation place.

Where ever I may roam

I'm in some holy space,

for one is here with me

who made this whole she-bang.

Invisible thread be

by what this womb-world hangs.

Some laugh and say by what

can womb as big as Earth 

be carried or be got? 

And what’s connection worth?

I say with gravity

the core of love that is 

the biggest mystery..

You see it in Jesus!

Invisible thread that

is in those metaphors*;

we don’t know quite how fat.

But what’s a heaven for?

Some questions miss the point

and strength of architect-

-tural help at every joint -

to bend, and yet connect.

Umbilical cord will

“at first” do quite the trick

of love giving it’s fill

to foetus that’s not sick.

But as the babe grows more

de visible cord’s cut;

loves purposes go for

much longer than we’ve got

in womb or song to tell -

a life of growing lots

and into that good well-

doing, with help we’ve surely got

somehow, or other we

can still persist in good -

the fact that help’s received

is firmly understood!

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*  e.g. MacDonald’s fairy stories “The Princess and the Goblin” & maybe “The Princess & Curdie”;  “Following the thread” (read, or listen to, the very old children’s fantasy book called The Princess & the Goblin, by the Scottish author George MacDonald, to get a lovely “picture painted” of this metaphor).

^ from  the Hebrew Bible: Genesis 4:_ - (God’s advice to Cain); Gen 6 (Enoch; Noah); Job; and the Christian Scriptures: Rom 2:5-11; my walk in Australia (beginning the 3rd Millenium since …..) & the whole purpose and aim of life in Christ, is to follow him who, in Peter’s words [to a Roman Centurion sent by God to stretch Peter’s (& the whole church’s) myopic view of God’s people ] “went about doing good, and healing all who were under the power of the devil, for God was with him” (Acts 9), and so to “not grow weary in well-doing” (Gal 6:9); & to not cease meeting together to “spur one another on, to love & good deeds”(Heb 9 or 10, v 24-25)

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