An alternative to the Deist’s mechanical model of “the Universe, & the God”*
“Our Daddy..”, Father, source of Parent love,
and suckling Mother to a newborn babe.
Provider in your very self, above
all other sources, conduits that disab-
-le death’s encroaches on the life you give.
Enabler of all good - as you at first
spoke into darkness, then more like a sieve
(at later times) dividing what had burst
into existence at your pow’rful word.
This seems to be a WAY you work a lot.
You order, and distinguish what’s absurd
from what inheres. You look, and then see what
has come about, and what makes better still
acknowledging the good, curtailing bad.
You seem to do more of the first, and will
keep second things that way - ordereda a tad!
And seven times you “saw that it was good”
as overseer - helped them on a bit.
You aided and abetted (as love would).
You walked around and helped the good - to wit..
..the best and highest options were enhanced.
The good that had po-ten-ti-al-it-y
you helped to rise above what would be chanced
if left alone. The heavens and the earth are your “baby”.
Your focus and responsibility.
They’re never quite “left home”, while you’re “at work”.
You watch their ev’ry move, and aren’t just “free”
to “do what you would like”a. Love does not shirk.
* (see, and hear, the narrative from Genesis to Revelation)
a although there is the thought in the Psalms, that “God is in heaven, he does what he likes.” (Psalm 115:3) the narrative (which the Psalms are often commentary on) clearly has God curtailing himself with covenants (that he is not destined by any other force, or “bound to do” - until he binds himself by giving his word on the matter. [Even the other human parties are not bound to them - until they are bound to them, and then it is their word which GOD is (rightly, or wrongly) trusting himself to.] e.g. before the covenant with the nation of Israel, there is the covenant with Israel the man, and with his father Isaac, and his father Abraham, and his great great great … (etc) grand father Noah, where God says “for ever more I will not destroy all living/ breathing things by flooding” (Gen 8:20-9:17). It seems that God can do anything, even curtail his own options. But this is talking like a Greek, about abstractions. The Hebrew mind-set sees the “paradoxes” that this way of thinking leads to, and prefers to simply tell the story of a father who loves his children and will move heaven & earth (& even himself) to help them grow to maturity. This is his good will and pleasure - to live with tender covenant-love towards his creation, especially his “children”.
