the cake

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YOUR WORD goes out, &, is kept!

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Oh God I love the way your word is more 

than what we often mean as we might  show

by words, we have the pow’r to let states form,

and living/moving things be, come, and grow.

Your word’s the message, spoken into life

as we now know things: history and such,

but also through our culture’s gifts (and strife),

how we could war; confronting or just touch-

ing people. They’re full loved - as parents do

a wee small child who’s joined the family.

Such parents bring their kids right full into

a situation where they can live free

of being run, or bound, by what they want.

To please a bigger will than just my own

is paradoxic’ly the needed font,

the style, or way of life that is full-grown.

And now I hear you say to me. You fraud!

So you claim that you’ve got the cancer cure?

Well, I say Caesar, Putin, Trump’s not Lord

in biggest way, and our needs still endure.

We need a Lord, such as that ONE that came

responding fully to creative love,

& spending life on earth, with all its shame

as though it's currency from up above,

and his investment was this very thing:

The people round about who loved to do

the truth, to make it shine in suffering,

and making friends with folk like me, & you*.

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* In the light of Mark 2; the stories of Jesus very willing to fight theological battles with leaders who were keen to lock horns on heady issues (in their power-mongering ways); but not more willing than we was to display the core creative love of the universe to the most marginalised and in the normal celebratory stuff of life.