when personal worlds collide

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Oh God! You made up wonder as a way

that we might have some feedback (like feelings)

on meshing with you, sharing time of day

(although it’s messy too, like other dealings

that are not just transactions, but a kind

of kindness that’s superfluous to some),

a way of well relating. Brings to mind

a word that is not spoken but has come,

is taken, and received, & understood.

And in that meeting, two worlds have come near,

or maybe more “dimensions”, which are good,

and present to each other, but appear

to casual eye to not be present to

the other. Thus we think that if we die,

then we might go to heaven, up to you.

Forgetting that you’re present, though we try

for getting you or even for giving.

You are not present as each other is.

For this relationship - all those living

connected to the source - time is a fizz

and not so constant as we thought it was.

And secret stuff can just be being done

between each one belov'd and lover ‘coz

those things are just enjoyable and fun

for those in love, but not for anyone

who won’t be so committed in themselves.

It is reserved for those who chose the sun,

for others stay inside, or on the shelves.

Draft 1: Audio 

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poverty-mind-...

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an old habit to get out of (Part 1 of more)

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I choose today to live above, beyond

that “poverty mindset” which “thinks it knows”..

It makes its judgements, finds propond-

-erance of evidence to back them up. It shows

the things that point to its conclusions drawn

before the good hard work of finding out

and sifting through detritus like a prawn

does (at the bottom level - true - no doubt!)

So, in the end, it does its judgement by

appearances of things, as they present.

It wouldn’t waste it's time of life, or try

too hard, or stop to wonder why it's sent

- for purposes of love (know “God is love!”).

It hardly understands the Duke of York,

and his ten-thousand men - weren’t just above 

if they were not below, as people talk.

It seems to just forget that verbs exist.

It thinks in terms of nouns and adjectives,

of definitions from the past, a twist

and tweak just here or there. It hardly lives.

Or so it tells me, as I live along..

long-side it, it says “Life is hell, for me!”

I used to think it couldn’t sing a song,

I think it thinks that song’s hypocrisy,

for mostly songs have movement, ups & downs,

they can’t be static (that would be just “noise”),

they have a heart-like beat, & feel (like clowns)

- reminds you of those little girls and boys.

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Download Draft Audio Spoken, & sung.

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Live above that “poverty mindset” which pre-judges things as static, numbered, limited… [a mindset which is true (in the sense that it corresponds to reality) without God]... and recall that I need never live that way again, and that WITH GOD all things are possible, nothing shall be impossible, I am given life, overflowing, springing up within me.

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not "wanting to" skip..

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Txt2Me: ...big day tomorrow filling skip!!!

Response: Wow. 

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God help that lady there with all that stuff

to have your wisdom as to what to do

with ev'ry task, in questions asked, and tough

decisions; thanks that she is there WITH YOU..

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start of the day prayer/hymn…

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Forth in Thy name, O Lord, I go,
My dai­ly labor to pur­sue;
Thee, on­ly Thee, re­solved to know
In all I think, or speak, or do.

The task Thy wis­dom hath as­signed,
O let me cheer­ful­ly ful­fill;
In all my works Thy pre­sence find,
And prove Thy good and per­fect will.

Preserve me from my call­ing’s snare,
And hide my sim­ple heart above,
Above the thorns of chok­ing care,
The gild­ed baits of world­ly love.

Thee may I set at my right hand,
Whose eyes mine in­most sub­stance see,
And la­bor on at Thy com­mand,
And of­fer all my works to Thee.

Give me to bear Thy ea­sy yoke,
And ev­ery moment watch and pray,
And still to things eter­nal look,
And hast­en to Thy glo­ri­ous day.

For Thee de­light­ful­ly emp­loy
Whate’er Thy boun­te­ous grace hath giv­en;
And run my course with ev­en joy,
And close­ly walk with Thee to Heav­en.

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Above, an old Charles Wesley hymn. 

Below, found on the net edited by someone(s) to be slightly modernized, with Paul Walker strongly editing verse 3, and adding verse 7. ( Can be sung to the rollicking tune of  "What shall we do with a drunken sailor?")

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          Am

1. Forth in your name, O Lord, I go,

          G 

my daily labor to pursue,

          Am 

determined firstly you to know

          C.         G.            Am 

in all I think or speak or do.

2. The task your wisdom has assigned,
   O let me cheerfully fulfill;
   in all my works your presence find,
   and prove your good and perfect will.

3. Preserve me from ignoring you

         while following good purposes.

         That I might follow good right to

         its source, and treasure all it says.

Hooray! Up she rises! x3   

Earl-i-e in the Morning

4. May you be found at my right hand;
   your eyes see truly what I do.
   I labor on at your command
   and offer all my works to you.

Hooray! Up she rises! x3   

Earl-i-e in the Morning

5. Give me to bear your easy yoke
   and ev'ry moment watch and pray
   and still to things eternal look,
   and hasten to your glorious day.

6. For you I gratefully employ
   whate’er you in grace have giv’n:
   I run my daily course with joy
   and closely walk with you to heav’n.

7. With you I'll use the open ears

          you’ve given me to listen well,

          past what is known AND what appears;

          to play my part, against all hell!

Hooray! Up she rises! x3   

Earl-i-e in the Morning

Draft Audio of above version put here when available.

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Newer (ten sylables per line) version:

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1. Out in your name, O Lord, today I go,

to do my jobs, & labor to pursue,

determined my first job is you to know

in all I (even think, or) speak, or do.

2. The task your wisdom has to me assigned,
   O let me strongly, cheerfully fulfill;
   in all my works your very presence find,
   and prove your truly good and perfect will.

3. Preserve me from my own ignoring you

while following some great, good purposes.

That I might follow all that’s good right to

its source, and then to treasure all it says.

4. May I find you right at my own right hand;
   your eyes see truly ev’ry thing I do.
   I labor on at your gracious command
   and offer all my words & works to you.

5. Give me the chance to bear your easy yoke
   and ev'ry moment learn to watch and pray
   and still through this to things eternal look,
   and thus to partner with  your glorious day.

6. For you I set myself to fully use
   ev’rything that you in grace have given:
   I run my course down here with you, and choose
   to closely share this life with you in heav’n.

7. With you I'll use the very open ears

you’ve given me to learn to listen well,

past what is known, past all that here appears;

to play my part, down here against all hell!

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Draft 2 Audio recording of last version above entuned to be sung

Draft 3 Audio recording of tune for verses 1-3 & 5-6 along with variation for verses 4 & 7.

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Christmas-break kid's program

Brad's brief outline of the Christmas break kid's program he is inviting us all to help with:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y7n9QJu-DH2Vi7N0-RS5zZNH3bmYA-Np/view?usp=drivesdk

Raised Above - through trust, expectation, & love.

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Our next chapter in Stephanie Davies-Arai’s book “Communicating with kids” is Chapter 6: Responding to Negative Feelings.

I expect Katrina's & all your openness to God's wisdom will help you make sense of what may at times feel like contradictory strands... In a two dimensional world... The third dimension of wisdom is what resolves the apparently paradoxical advice of this chapter ..

Hope it is a good time together.

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God, please give wisdom to these folk to raise

(as you did with your Christ) the children you

have given them as just one cell in space,

to grow more to reflect the Christ to view.

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Cross purposes

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That secret weapon Christ claimed as a tool

when taken from the pow’rs that dominate,

coerce, control, make others’ plans look fool

-ish; just by letting them, and then await

-ing love’s creative deep capacities

and trusting all his self to its judgement,

above, beyond all pow’rs of enemies,

enlisting “deeper magic” as it’s sent

out ev’ry day, as rain falls on the fields 

of good and bad alike, and gives to each

a joy and pleasure, which helps each heart yield

somehow to love’s big purposes to teach

us how to shine it back in kind, good hearts

to shine the light, in universe so dark

unless there was a light, that truly starts

all life off, just as fire can come from spark.

They wanted more machines, so used up men

& women as machines to serve their “need”.

He wants God’s children, now, as well as then, 

to raise them up, by following his lead -

to grow through all potential ways when let..

that great love, which keeps this whole world in place

(if not for all eternity, I bet

it’s for confinement time, until there’s traced

a coming out of elements & stone…

and wood would do the job of raising love

above desire (to feel good, or atone).

And tree limbs could help raise us up - above.

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start to spring

Busy… following through with plans from the past and commitments to connect…

Txt2Me:Sounds like a start to spring

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Text from me: Yes..

What is it that keeps life full springing forth

from dormant, or dead-looking sorts of forms?

What is it that points magnets to the North,

impelling love to venture past the norms?

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medical procedure

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God, please give all the team your wisdom in

the carrying of this procedure out

or in to my friend's body where blood's been

a-coming from. We know you care about

these things which mean our body's vul'nrable.

But that is just what you made that was good,

and meant for us to have as use-a-ble

to get us on the ground as Jesus could

& did, to serve this world you made - to serve

your little children as their home sweet home.

This lovely house (or tent) helps us have nerve

to follow him who taught us how to roam.

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three days dead outside front door

I know Paul John & I weren't close, but we knew of each other's lives by what his parents & my parents passed on. And it felt like we were kept open to each other that way. And that possibilities were kept open, that may not (or may well) be there now... (@ least short-term).

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God rest his soul, in arms that he has known

when child, and at times as he grew up too,

and help return both he and we (as shown

by Jesus) to the grave-womb that Christ knew.

And if we will again as children come,

he said that he would not turn us away.

Though we live in this time where we see some

things, we are glad you, God, said what you say...

through your own chosen and anointed one,

and know the Judge-of-all will know the facts,

and we are not that Judge, but the true Son

said more is told by (not our words, but) acts

and that there are surprises still in store,

for all of us, in that reality:

The smallest weakest may be that much more,

and first may be the last. Soon we'll all see.

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Memorial Service: Sent by Dad, just before I talked with Aunty Glenna at ~10am

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talk about...

Txt2Me: ..".. had planned to meet with the JWs and talk about Jesus .."

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Reply:

Please God make o-pen-ings because your Christ

is such a leader that all humans can

quite gladly follow. Your voice has sufficed

to stamp on him your honour as THE MAN.

Collapsing into each day as your child

without the cares of property and rent,

or food or drink, or shelter is the wild

"untamed" way, you showed us life could be spent

as one great pilgrimage throughout your world,

with fam-i-ly (& you, our LORD, and GOD).

What high adventure - so to be quite hurled

into (for us) an unknown, as we've got

here, ev'ry day. And this day is no freak;

you lead in triumph (though through way of death).

And looking to our end (you gave a peak)

in those times that they ate with Christ, when breath

of Christ (the High King Over All)⁹ was sent

to be embodied here again in flesh

and bones as we have now. He never went

back. His "right spirit"* will renew, enmesh

& tangle all of life up in your way

of love & service in your world of folk

from ev'ry corner of the world, today.

This is a kind of lovely riddle/ joke! 

Please help us to retain the punch-line clear,

not telling it in such a way it's lost

on any truly open kind of ear..

please help us in repast and in reposte.

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 *  “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit. (Psalms 51:10-12 NRSVUE)

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Boasting*

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I’ll boast in all my weaknesses, & shame, 

my difficulties, death & troubles, too;

the active conquering, winning love that’s named

Yeshua, who can save both me & you

from our own faults and immaturities,

our falling-short of what we’d like to be,

our missing of the mark (that would so please

us, as we grow to Christ’s maturity).

The kind of grown-up-ness that he displayed

throughout his life when folk made fun of him -

he’d trust himself to One who this world made,

& know that love could never more shine dim,

though it might look like it was blotted out,

exhausted, or be-nighted, overcome.

But that’s like sun shine “stopped” by banks of cloud,

or rain that falls down here on ev’ry one,

because of love’s own wish to convince us

to let it help (because we're made for such).

Brain hemisphere that’s Left on own might fuss

but if it’s joined up with the Right, then much

could be achieved; once partnership is prized,

but also living under leadership.

So not as Ciaphas had Christ despised,

but as ol’ Nicodemus made his quip*.

I’ll boast of love of God, in Christ, displayed

those days by their own partnership lived out

in taking up a cross, where men were made

or else unmade, as they caved in to  doubt.

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Notes:

g*  2Cor 12:9-10; Romans 5:3-4; Galatians 6:14

p*  “ 51‘Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?’(John 7:50-51 NIVUK)

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Less spruiking, more list’ning .. at meetings on Earth.

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God, help your boys (and me), to have the grace

to ask good questions of the others round,

and listen carefully to every face

(and body) that would speak, as we have found

that language isn't all about the words

that make up speech or get writ down in text.

We learn from you* (and those in packs and herds*)

that acts and body-placement are less vexed..

well, ..methods of communication which

(especially when it comes to) show off love -

are fuller, more consistent, they don't ditch

and leave folk high and dry. They're "from above"*.

As James remembered his big brother* for

the sake of helping little brothers* round

to follow in his footsteps; he said more

to listen, less to speak. Anger be found

less quickly to rise up within our selves,

if we were to please God - to make his day!*

Thus not left high & dry up on some  shelves

with 30 years & future CROSSed a WAY*!

And here & now, he calls to follow him.

from this place in the world, on dusty streets,

to please what makes a mate be  fairdinkum -

(by being it - with ev’ry mate he meets!)

And strangely, taking up our own cross too*,

and dying by that tree (that brings on  death)

to all our hopes for glory in this zoo,

this womb, as though we don’t need ev’ry breath*.

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Notes

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tough day at school...

Wednesday,10Sept2025

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“Today we’ve moved along the track..” (I wink)..

“I tried to do some drawings when folk worked,

and tricked some kids to listen up & think.

But sometimes they did act out - quite berserk.”

And this is not a problem in itself,

it’s more the consequences for the group.

How can a child who asks for special help

be given it when others then throw food,

or paper sheets, scrunched up into tight balls.

The kids who come from backgrounds that grow guts,

persistence, perseverance, through the falls

of life, and bleeding from the paper cuts

of bureaucratic systems, or the want

of cats that might appear just stretching legs

with claws extended, yawning, nonchalant-

ly, doing what might hurt or harm which begs

to differ just because it then feels best.

It’s jealous and it doesn’t like to lose. …

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god-child

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God make this blessed man a blessing true

to people as they live out there at Forbes

and may they understand more of how you

would like to see life done within our orbs

around the sun, as year turns into years,

and as this human project runs along

the track that you had hoped (when we have ears)

to join in with your purposes & song..

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in trouble ... in bubble

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God, wisdom please! And patience too. And joy

in deeper, unseen stuff than even this

whole world (where we now live, as girl or boy

in Mummy's tummy). To grow up - not miss-

miss-take the situation we're now in

as though this were the proper grown-up stage,

yet let the exercise of stuff we've been 

here given, still grow habits which engage

our muscles, sinuses, tendons and the like,

with nerves and "bones" beginning to become

of use, though we could hardly see, or hike

that far, or even understand what some

might think the basics of life "on the out"...

So look and listen as much as we can.

We don’t have much worth-while to say, or spout..

But doing as we need, will build the man,

or woman we are meant to be one day.

That day is coming, when our “night” has passed

and we come to the outside world the way

that Christ moved to the heavenly - world-classed

achievement (that was claimed for Caesars, say,

collecting somehow credence for the next

as “SON OF GOD”, but) his move ‘gainst the snake,

well for the source of life, not just the text,

the label, or the stamp; but true at core

to what is real and permanent, in love.

We’re dropping words and taking up what’s more

important in that life that’s “from above”.

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