Mirth of new birth

(amid what did occur). 

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I look at what just passed these last few days,

at all the waiting, watching, planning, hopes

(and fears) when understanding’s deeper ways

of knowing by participating, copes

and walks along to future which it now

is helping to create by ev’ry choice

it makes to still continue with (somehow)

such life as this - curtailed, yet with a voice.

And see in it an echo of the trust,

enduring pain that’s intimately there,

and partnership that backs up as it must

to show the kind of love that is your care

expressed to us in ev’ry little bit

of mirrored love and thoughtfulness that’s joined

in this big process, though there is some shit,

its place with all detritus is purloined

and put some place it can be washed away

(so toilets were invented, and how good

a service is the sewage. I would say

the clean up is important to what could

be quick destroyed - infections, and the wastes…

So life that’s based on blood to let cells breathe

must keep this separation, culture tastes

that help it happen. ON with growth, don’t seeth

with just revulsion at what could “go wrong”.

It’s quite amazing to me that more don’t

[considering how poo (and breath) can pong].

Oh God, you still grow goodness, so we won’t

just take it all for granted. We’ll say “Thanks!”

And look up to the sky in gratefulness.

Invest where we can, even use the banks,

but look past mechanism’s true “coolness”

to who we’re truly serving, the sublime,

the joy of higher life, that truly does

still benefit and use “things” all the time,

but never in this life will treat a “cuz”

as object to be used. Love them as we

are known & loved ourselves and thus still grow

as humans who breathe in the love, and see

the light of life in ev’ry one we know.

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“When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.” (John 16:21 NRSVUE)

..looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. 3Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls or lose heart. (Hebrews 12:2-3 NRSVUE and the rest of the chapter…)

And before the babe was born our laundry has been rebirthed to wash away rubbish and clean things up and even dry things better with Matt & Annabelle’s drier…

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