the hood!

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Our Father, mother, sister, brother, you

are whom we have our being from, and to..

Our smaller sibbling, weaker, overlooked,

whom we can now include, and read a book

to, hear their stories of the day, and say.

You’re loved within this fam-i-ly always.

“Today” - that is the time where love’s strong work

is done (Joy's fun joins in) -will never shirk.

Once I was shaken up, and felt confused.

I heard a word come from a bub who mused,

and tried to share his state of mind and fears

without the words that come - throughout the years,

A two year old begins the use of words,

and gets the gist. But sometimes they’re like turds

expelled into the air, but may be waste -

as things are getting processed.. “Do not taste!”

They come from in the mouth, just like a kiss, but sometimes vomits come from things amiss,

and must just be let out - then cleaned up straight.

Direction/ placement can ameliorate.

And that’s my job within our family:

to help ameliorate some probs I see,

or feel to have arriving here just now,

and honour those around, somewhere, some how.

For in this Universe, of heaven's and earth,

somehow we can learn love, if we’ve been birthed

here from above, the home of God who is

the first to love - all Fatherhood is his!

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Notes:

Christ's Apostle (Ambassador) Paul, writing to a group of Jesus followers in Ephesus, a long way from Israel in the Roman Empire:

“7-13 And I was made a minister of that Gospel by the grace he gave me, and by the power with which he equipped me. Yes, to me, less than the least of all Christians, has God given this grace, to enable me to proclaim to the Gentiles the incalculable riches of Christ, and to make plain to all men the meaning of that secret which he who created everything in Christ has kept hidden from the creation until now. The purpose is that all the angelic powers should now see the complex wisdom of God’s plan being worked out through the Church, in conformity to that timeless purpose which he centred in Jesus, our Lord. It is in this same Jesus, because we have faith in him, that we dare, even with confidence, to approach God. In view of these tremendous issues, I beg you not to lose heart because I am now suffering for my part in bringing you the Gospel. Indeed, you should be honoured.

14-19 When I think of the greatness of this great plan I fall on my knees before God the Father (from whom all fatherhood, earthly or heavenly, derives its name), and I pray that out of the glorious richness of his resources he will enable you to know the strength of the spirit’s inner re-inforcement—that Christ may actually live in your hearts by your faith. And I pray that you, firmly fixed in love yourselves, may be able to grasp (with all Christians) how wide and deep and long and high is the love of Christ—and to know for yourselves that love so far beyond our comprehension. May you be filled though all your being with God himself!

20-21 Now to him who by his power within us is able to do far more than we ever dare to ask or imagine—to him be glory in the Church through Jesus Christ for ever and ever, amen!” Eph 3:7-21

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