a reflection on.. (receiving &) reflecting on ..(seeing, hearing, processing, speaking)..

If we are like “radios made able to tune in to YAHWEH (Reality, Personality, And Love That IS)” [cf C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity]...

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Recall the words spoken into God’s world by Jesus in his often repeated phrase before & after his parables (which were most commonly not-understood by his own disciples): “Let, those who have ears to hear, hear”; 

Recall what happened the second time to the man who was NOT healed by Jesus’s fingers rubbing his blind eyes the first time, yet after that, when he began to join with Jesus’ work by begining to “look-intently/ try-hard- himself-to-see”... then … in his mind’s eye people took focus, and became more than “trees walking around”.

Recall also Jesus’ words to the man who was dumb (& “deaf”, it turns out) - after putting his fingers in the man’s ears, and touching his tongue, he said to the man  “Ephatha!” which the gospel writers then translate from Aramaic into common Greek for us, & tell us means “Open up!”

(For further reflection: Notice connections to the servant song/prayer/psalm: Isaiah 50:4-11, especially verses 4-5,  and sing the blue version of a morning prayer/song to the tune suggested above it) 

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…then use our whole being: spirit, heart, soul, mind, and body, all our chosen, un-chosen, and developed responses to events in God’s world coming to be on our retina, tympanium, skin nerves, emotions, imaginings, etc… to tune to what God’s heart is, his will, his wants, & his “desires”, treating them as worth more than, and choosing them over ours. 

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Can you see anything? What do you pick up, see, hear, perceive?

How do you interpret that? What do you understand that to mean? What implications come from that?

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To me as I drove along, I came to see that I must :

• 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. (And I have started to try to understand this better via looking at it from different angles etc, & teasing it out here, or in this blog here)

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