Making Easter a Way of Life

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Glad of the cross... 

that helps me with loss..

helps me take it on

instead of my option,

which seems "to acquire"

insurance inspire-

es me in that way

that keeps to the “pay

level” instead

of fam'ly love - wed-

wed-ed HESED

makes old ways dead!

Thus one has said:

"Take up your cross;

follow me" Toss

out your old dream.

(Too small it would seem.

Die to the making

of power plays baking,

-  for making all others*

to do our will smothers

unless from love's motive

with offerings votive.

Connecting through love

brings life from above.

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1. *  the making of a human being is reserved for the self whom you love and are (becoming), thus you have been granted the right to participate in its making. To try to make another human being, is a travesty. Unless you are given the holy, (unwritten, in anything but DNA) responsibility to participate in the making of a human being, say as a parent; or loaned a part of that responsibility, say as a baby-sitter, guardian, music teacher; or linked back to parents by metaphor & on the level of society, “race” & culture (at another level -  & there is yet another way to see this link, via the parent metaphor backwards. e.g. of two ways of linking: if Seth were to have married his sister, then Seth’s sister and his wife were the same person) as a properly ordained (& executed), leader of humanity, King, Prime Minister, President, and the Judges, Police, and Council Officials, giving their lives to serve their people.

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