Love’s leading - 2

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So Love, creative, and eternal too,

we need your help to now un-strangle* you.

We’re stuck in mechanistic ways to see,

and don’t know how to change* our view*, so we

come to the only one who could affect

a change in us to save us from neglect 

(neglecting sunlight* on our solar cells*

which plunges us beneath to certain hells*).

Please clean us up, so your light can pass through

to land on surfaces reflecting you

somehow, and which then brings an energy

to what is dormant there deep within me*.

This brings alive a past amazing world

of love which can just start again, uncurled,

and functioning, with light as motive force.

It only didn’t function then because

it wasn’t opened up to light and cleaned,

and focussed where those rays would, un-demeaned,

just do their job of visioning*, give death*

to certain viruses that use no breath,

and make up basic food for all the plants,

when captured, in those chloroplasts which dance

around within a cell with “see-oh too”

and just ol’ basic water. Then renew-

-al comes into the ecosystem here,

and its long hibernation then appears

to be aborted and fresh life ensues

from energy which love, through life, embues.

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Notes

le* - the “feeling/ lived-experience” of love being rendered “ineffective & unproductive” in my experience of a partnership   (which had been, at least at some time in the past) based on love, but may in fact have been set up to be a seedbed for love.

ge* - thinking of the quote from some children at a party to a trusted adult (mentioned in the interview below): “We’re being naughty, & we don’t know how to stop.”

ew* - thinking of the interview entitled “Change your Way of Seeing”, yet the inability of the Left Hemisphere to see what it cannot see (e.g. metaphors, depth perception in vision etc), & how it might just come down to the Left Hemisphere being itself & living “under” the greater relational view of the Right Hemisphere, where a living allegiance just works!

ht* - problem experienced from sunlight differentially not passing through dirty glass as well as it passes through clean glass. Thinking of C.S. Lewis’s observation : “When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, he shows much more of Himself to some people than to others -- not because He has favorites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favorites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as a clean one.”(Mere Christianity, I think).

cells* - thinking of the above quote with respect to a photovoltaic cell, instead of a mirror… & recalling the Skyward series of novels by Brandon Sanderson where Spensa finds sets of ancient asteroid-like war machines all set up and ready to go with some kind of (solar?) energy that is available but must simply be tapped. (& cf. chloroplasts within a plant cell)

hells* - thinking of some ancient Buddhist concepts of frozen Hells.

me* - one part of a solution I can see for the problem outlined in Note ht*  above, (but, as also mentioned above, thinking of a photovoltaic cell, instead of a mirror).

ng* - one of the functions of sunlight. It simply allows us (who have functioning eyes) to “see”, to build an new internal picture of reality, 

th* - one other helpful function of sunlight is its disabling of “germs” living, dormant or viral (simply mechanical/ informational ?).

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