renovating

downstairs

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Please help, Lord of the heavens and the earth,

for me as builder of a dwelling place,

to understand our needs and what they’re worth

to value truly, minimise disgrace.

In working with the rules of this good land

& honouring our government’s job here,

to help us live responsibly, and stand

up on our legs, and not to just appear

that way, but have in fact, a good impact

on this world, as environment and web,

as ecosystem, so in word and act

we’ll use authority we have to tread

lightly, where we must, while serving all

with sense of that proportion which is tuned

to outcomes for the whole she-bang, not small-

ly thinking just to minimise our wound.

So using the resources of your world, 

and using our own income as He* would,

to value add in this place we’ve been hurled,

and make this whole adventure pretty good

for serving all the humans you put here,

to serve this Earth to bring your will as is

the case in heaven, as it does appear

from what he said to ask in prayer of his..

his teaching of his children to enact

the kind of life that manifests on Earth

the life which your eternal love has tracked

down here where we have all had our first birth.

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Footnotes

e* - He, being the model or leader of humanity, and of Manhood, the Christ or Messiah of God, Jesus of Nazareth., who was by trade, a builder (before he was a Teacher, then said as Father of a new people of God, a new Israel, “I will build my ekklesia”.

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