Walk with Life

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Oh God to be here walking in the morn-

-ing of a brand new day breathing your breeze..

Oh God to be here walking before dawn

in your great world beneath these tall gum trees.

Oh God it is so good to be with you

I want to 

remember this & not forget at all

But i know that i am so very small 

and remiss

and often I live up to my name Paul*!

Oh God thank you for asking me along

to let me have a look at you’ve done

and what you’re doing too for Jesus Christ,

you’re making now a bride up for that man!

The human being - MAN, who’s lived on earth

the first that’s come. The new creation rings

the chiming bells for ev’rything’s new birth..

I start to feel with all created things.

And I hear now the squabbling of the birds

I think that means the sun is on the way

a love-li-er thing I have never heard… 

it somehow beckons on to the new day.

Where immortality eats up what now 

is good and right ’n true, but limited,

The new model that’s been test driven .. Wow!

All the rest it leaves for bloody dead!

Woo who-oo!

If this dead thing that haunts me now will be

yes, finally dropped off & left behind

oh God, a world where all of us are free

from all the kinds of death that we could find

And into life we’ll go with might, and mane,

the cells within my body breath and dance,

and ev’ry thing that I hope will remain -

of all your loveliness, and THIS perchance..

the chance to walk together with you Lord 

the chance to hang about with you and see

the kind of things I never could afford

when I was living just for/about me.

Thank you for stopping, and stepping down,

for kneeling down and wiping off my face,

and all my body from toes to my crown,

deciding then that you would surely trace

your lineage to me and take me in

as your own son and my heart’s fit to burst

at all the goodness, that has just begun

and all the fun that comes here with the worst

off all the pain & sorrow and the grief 

I see that you thought it was quite worthwhile 

to be the person you are who’s bequeathed

your life to us, and more with ev’ry smile.

Thank you Lord. Thank you very much,

thank you for  the chance to walk with you

and if you’ll help me now to stay in touch

that’s all that I would ever like to do 

Thank you for the way you’ve made me too,

with hollows and receptacles for you,

& bumpy bits that don’t give you the shits -

but laugh-at / love, and never do eschew.

Thank you Lord that I can trust you still, 

even after walking in this trail

to not drop me and leave me as some dill

who joined in some excursion entailed

all the love and sharing that you’ve done

and make it even more so all my life

keep on in the things like this - the fun

of sharing life with you. Connected Wi-

-Fi, as a kind of hotspot I would be

connected to the internet of you;

so others who came near could connect too

& join in all this goodness, make more true.

Thank you God, & thank you for these gifts

& thank you the friends to make it work. 

My thinking on my weaknesses now shifts

for your HESED¹ is antidote to shirk!

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Notes

*  The name “Paul” means… “small”.

¹. HESED is the Hebrew word for loyal love, or family love, or covenant love, or loving kindness, a commitment to look and work for the good of another, irrespective of feelings

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