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One is to “look to Jesus, let him in, 

and share this life on Earth, share it with him;

& learn from him the way to live down here, 

of taking up my cross, till he apears..” 

Since I am tunnel visioned, may I be

so tunnelled where my vision is the best,

and to a TARDIS portal that I see

more from, and through,  it than from all the rest.

I need your gracious hêsed love, else I

would shrink the universe down to a dot,

a kind of “black hole”, I don’t need to try

I do it “on my own”, and quite a lot.

I see now why “the cross of Christ” ’s a gift;

unique, unparalleled, yet to be re-

capitulated daily: I must lift

my own upon my shoulders. Now I see

how life can flow from death of that good man,

and starts with death of this man, here today!

Then trusting Christ’s new word of light that can

illumine my own black-hole life and pave

the road, the way, the hodos (that’s the Greek

word used of Christ, who’s straight-a-way, and true,

the kinda life that's more than words can speak

of - he's the Word, that makes creation new!

the word of God, that re-imagines all.

I’m glad I’m a disciple Jesus loved

(and loves still, moving this one, that’s this small

man, out of “my own self”; I’m hand en-gloved).

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