Answering before Listening,

is folly & shame*

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Dear God, please help me (thanks for help so far)

to learn by observation, not spruiking.

In words of James (who’s Jesus’ next brother)

“..be quick to listen, slow to speak a thing,

and slow to anger* (though I might still need

to get angry, but it should take a while)”.

I’m wond’ring what he meant by using “speed”

words: Does “quick” here refer to accent, style,

or time that’s taken to initiate?

Or does it mean a living kind of thing? -

where movement might be linked to time and state,

as passage through both time and space may bring*,

or else a movement responsive to will -

[and ours is not mature, or fit, quite yet,

for ruling worlds. And it won’t be until

we come out of this womb. But then I bet

our training will be solid till we can

be fit to rule the angels - and this world. 

And then we’ll listen better than a man

or woman could today, wherever hurled.]

That quickly, even actively, takes on

the list’ning mode to ev’ry -thing and -one,

we might request to uncover what shon

out light & help elucidate. Begun,

it might keep on (thus call for us to speak,

but here speech is the serving kind of stuff)

(not as the final judge who can't be tweaked

by past & future); wise & full of love!

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Footnotes

e* - Proverbs 18:13

r* - (James 1:18-27)

g* - as the ancients considered the planets to be living (wandering) entities, if not metaphors (or icons) for them.

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