he can't make it this fri arvo

good night dear bro., 
to you and yours
that it will show
goodness because ... 

a friend choosing from options

God, please give wisdom to this man.
But maybe there's other things too
things like efficiency, love, and
listening to words (and groans) from you.

Please grow these careful goodnesses
in this friend, and his family too,
so more than legal should-nesses
spur him on, with a love like you

have for these your very children,
or your sheep that need your special
care for lambs, watered and filled 'em,
no real needs that you won't help fill!

More than all the details, please grow
strong friendship that trusts and won't fear
so no matter which way they go
he'll care for lambs, feed sheep who're here.

Amen

shards of freshness

Wow-oo-we!
-looking good,
'tog-raphy
(as it should)

shows off yous,
as ya's are:
"fabulous",
and "fresh arts"!

brothers breakfast together tomorrow..

Bless-ed time together
at that breakfast pub.
You enjoy the weather,
'member things that rub

in such a way that they
sharpen or make smooth
as i-ron or stones play
their part, and reprove.

May you all celebrate
a bless-ed earth-day,
and catch up with a mate
or two, not to stray.

But to go on strongly,
learn to listen well,
and to not judge wrongly,
save your souls from hell!

Old-ey & New-ey

©2015 PW

A mate starts a blog...

On you!
Keep on,
be strong.
Speak true.

That will
help us
not fuss,
fulfill.

G'day
to who
'sround you,
I say.

Her mum is quite sick

She’s been in hospital, bad infections in lunch (+ emphysema, and COPD..), and her husband died less than a year ago. She hasn’t got over it. Does she know she is still loved, as she loved her children, and more.

Katrina, you are doing love

reflecting back there to your mum,

what she got from the god above,

patient listening, though not quite “dumb”:

speaking only what will help build,

learning to help her to work out:

holes that should, or else could, be filled;

what one should hold, 'nwhat one should doubt.

...

I gotta dotta: an R-bell...

Annabelle Rose Elvita
Heer Walker, that is her name;
times her room could be neater,
we love her though just the same.

They say this day is special;
no longer a "teen-ager",
I don't know, but I guess she'll
settle (-not such a rager)!

Been connecting with a team,
(no sleep-ins on those team-days)
life's not always what it seems,
"Some folk are different" she says.

Learning to listen and love
folk with their differences too,
keeping connected above
all that's important to you.

Still big decisions to make
about next year and her life,
but small ones on the way shape
more than we know, they are rife

with potential as Jesus
(that's the one she calls her Lord)
told us, our Father sees us
"cups of wat-er" ain't ignored,

visiting those in trouble:
in hospital, or in jail;
giving, what looks like stubble,
but 'tsall the grain in your pail;

trusting the one who makes grain
multiply in the dark earth
so that it rises again
but with new body, new birth.

Losing control of the helm,
gaining the rest of a child,
learning with fears, to quell 'em
through faith & love that is wild.

God's hope for her is greater
he says than what we could dream,
so I'll gladly be "waiter",
& "watcher" for that bright sheen.

Anarther father.

Daughter sorta "fought" a nother year.

Milly (de Pilly)
is one year older!
Don't think me silly:
I think she's "golder": 

as trials come by
with each year of life,
she don't have to try
it happens, it's rife; 

she's growing beauty
and open-ness too.
More than a duty,
she left her glass shoe, 

I think by mistake,
or else events forced
life's aspects to make
her life a new source

under God, of love
which has the most pow'r;
of all things that shove,
it doesn't somehow,

and yet made the world,
both heavens and earth,
the planets were hurled
and light had it's birth!

The word of that love
let time and space be,
harmless as a dove
but like that Milly.

God, please keep growing
your wisdom in her,
like a snake going
on rock, may she serve

in "impossible"
placings and timings,
for you, God, are full
of wond'rous rhymings.

One in a hundred
or thousand, or more,
Milli-Cent; one dread
batt-le-maiden: you're

daughter who oughta
be of a glad dad!

The Lord is very near...

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and rescues those who are crushed in spirit.  (Psalm 34:18 PMV)

...............................

Oh God is this true?

I'm right glad of it,

when I'm feeling "blue",

or else "in the shit"

-of my own making

('n-I can't clean it up),

or others taking

time to (on me) dump.

Two things now jump out

re. this, I see, whence

one comes from my doubts,

one from my pru-dence.

Prudence wants less spent;

notes "brokenhearted",

not "a bit up-set"

('tspast where it started!),

"crushed in spirit", not

"not feeling myself".

Why wait till we've got

broke 'n crushed, no wealth?

Three answers appear

to me as I quest:

* A drowning man's fear

   must be put to rest.

* We can't be "in charge"

   when rescued like this.

* This One with Love large

   heals us with his kiss.

Each one's a story

which o-pens up life,

to th'point, not boring

(like my lovely wife).

If the Lord is close

to his children who

are broken the most,

and he tells us to

"rejoice with the glad,

sorrow with the sad."#

The Lord is close to

broken-hearted too. %

My question from doubts

is some-thing like this:

The Lord's where abouts-

when nothing's amiss?

And answers I see

com-ing thick and fast:

*  since we ate that tree,

   has this come to pass?

   Has there ever been

   some-thing not amiss?

   - In the whole world scene,

   or in me, dismissed.

   Maybe my job then

   is "admit my state"

   (e-ven, if and when

   I feel to "elate").

*  maybe eyes of love

   in this broken place,

   get ignored, or shoved,

   till our breaks erase

   all our dreams of pow'r;

   we see what love sees,

   and we see that Our

   Father's in the breeze..

   ..that just caressed us,

   which would blow away

   our cares and fretts (does

   not do all we say,

   but he loves us true,

   gives us heaps of choice,

   yet says what to do

   for small girls and boys).

*  'nless we actively

   'nvite him to help us;

   "Come to rescue me",

   we'll eschew the fuss

   that he makes to save

   us who need his strength

   this side of the grave…

   Will we trust at length?

 

 

# Rom 12:15

% Gen 6:5-6

Cousins keep contact..

Lovely to hear about
*the ducks like Nana's ones,
*the rainbows that came out
  (both your Father's, & son's).

*The house becoming home
*That young one playing tunes
*A mum singing "alone"
  with her daughters, soon 's

they're tucked into their beds,
and *praying quietly true.
I'm glad you rang and said
all this stuff. I like you...

Scheduling time with ............... ........... groups of kin and kith .......... ........... in order to serve .................. help them keep their nerve

God,

thanks for this body
you have put us in.
Sometimes we seem shody;
I think that you grin.

Grin with happiness,
as we learn to stand
'n your council* to bless,
each holding your hand.

Your wise ways display
many dimensions
and colours, we say
it's worth the tensions..

like two eyes which use
different views always;
somehow our brains fuse
them to mirror space

like a hologram,
in our little brain,
3D worlds now can
be there when we deign.

In this new body
you help to create
new ways that godli-
ness can grow and wait

till it's birthing time
comes in your good plan
and all goodness rhymes
"earth, as in heaven"+.

Amen.

*Jeremiah 23:15-31
+Matt 6:9-10

Daughter, in pain, warn out, with ... study deadlines, work plans to write, sick children around, emotional thinness.

I have learned to boast of my frailties, weaknesses, etc,

Hug, kiss -

my Miss.

Go well

dear gal.

Know when

to spend

time blest

at rest.

Admit

your bit

of need

then heed

Wisdom's

kingdom's

quiet call

though small;

and trust,

as must

those who

need to;

because

He was

needing

as King

'nointed

(so said

God's voice

to boys

spruking)

list'ning

time with

God's kith

and kin.

Begin,

as led

(He said),

follow,

His slow

painful

shameful

death so

ego

won't rule

as tool

of fool.

God brings,

as springs

new sprout,

life out

of death.

His breath!

O, X, (hug, kiss)

my Miss,

from Dad

(sad / glad).

all awash

Today was spent involved in helping orchestrate ...

A symbol¹ of GOD’s NEW COVENANT²..

Old Greek word “Baptidzo”

spoke of being washed, so,

folk in the First Cent’ry

“baptidz” before entry..

..to clean family places;

or religious spaces;

after doing shopping,

after sex, when stopping..

[Some-times it had to be

(to wash you really clean -

-culture’s understanding)

liv-ing water, run-ning.]

“Washed” can mean bathed or showered:

(though not norm'ly "empowered")

part of read-y-ing for

meeting folk of import..

before we see their face;

or maybe with a race:

kind of "get ready, set..",

then we're lift-ing our head,

That was all John offered

John the Washer/Prophet,

but then his master came,

& John did not refrain

from announcing to who

heard (as some folk do who

try to watch and listen),

they followed the glisten.

The rest is, as they say,

it’s "His-story" today..

Jesus (or Yeshua)

didn’t wash³ in water⁴!

He would clean his folk in-

side their core-soul, from sin

by showing us that LOVE

lives on Earth, from above.

He would grow his folk - us

(following him), our focus -

from our death-ly need to

have things our way, or “blue”.

Loving-kindness (kHes-ed),

He rose up from the dead,

Now he would rise in us,

first “dead & buried”, thus.

Jesus-washed might mean

like be’ng “washed - out to sea”

both “rubbish” (stuff that’s been),

but also “little ol’ me”⁵!

---

1“Baptism”, as it was introduced into this NEW WORLD ORDER, with a NEW WORLD-VIEW,  twenty centuries ago:

1.      On the surface of things it certainly was a ritual. (But we don’t have to be scared of rituals, because so is “hand-washing” nowadays in a hospital, and it can help.)

2.      The English word “Baptism” is simply a transliteration of the Greek word “Baptizo”, which means to wash. (That is to have a bath or a shower.  Who here has washed in the last week? Who had a bath? Who had a shower?) So it’s a ritual washing (Mark 7 & Mark 1)

3.      John says “I’m washing you with water (a paraphrase might be: “I’m washing your outside body, with water”). But he’s (the greater one coming after John the washer) going to wash you (on the inside, your inside being) with the Holy Spirit”. There’s two washings here: a water washing & a waterless (spirit) washing, a dry-cleaning. …  Will his (the greater one coming after John the washer) baptism be symbolic? – or is water baptism the symbol of this deeper washing of our non-physical being? I think so, since the apostle Paul says we have only one baptism or washing… the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit…

This first symbol of God’s TRUE, new WAY of LIFE goes with another symbol which Jesus left his followers to get involved in. This first symbol is like washing your hands, before the next big event which is: let’s EAT & DRINK – let’s share a meal together… God & Humanity at table are to sit  down! There is a big feast coming up, and the “symbol” of it involves having “FOOD & DRINK” TOGETHER, WITH HIM, & US. So let’s do the wash bit, then maybe we can do the Food & Drink bit together too.

2..This is different to a CONTRACT (which seems to be aimed more at a task). It focusses back on LOVE, affection, response, inclusiveness, with the goal of us “getting & keeping together”. It involves love & discipline, and is aimed at people relating (not primarily based on maintaining, protecting & enhancing POWER, but) in LOVE.

God does “covenant” (and “kingdom”, and “power” & “glory”) different to us ZOMBIES. The covenantal way brings on the consequences of either keeping it, or not, in order to help the covenant happen. If you break it, you don’t throw it away and get on with uncovenanted life again, you come back to your covenantal partner hoping that the LOVE of the covenant will creatively help you find a way forward… (like a child coming to their parent & asking for a spanking, “Daddy, I think I need a spank, because of the way I just treated my little sister”, to help the child grow good).

The new covenant is based on love, so it’s between PEOPLE, both those people; to form A PEOPLE (e.g. One MAN, in covenant with One WOMAN, forms a new FAMILY SYSTEM; or PARENTS in covenant with CHILDREN forms a new FAMILY “SOLAR”-SYSTEM)

God’s new covenant understands a difference between signposts & labels. This side of reality, it’s not much into labels, but it is not scared of signposts and symbols. It knows that they are secondary, but we’re in a kingdom where secondary things (e.g. humans) are to be included and loved. So e.g. Marriage covenants in human society commonly have different kinds of symbols (1 - once off) a wedding ceremony & celebrations, & (2 - ongoingly) rings (exchanged & worn ongoingly), and a yearly wedding anniversary.

In our “unloving agreements” we have a tendency to keep the minimum, our propensity is to “unlove” the Universe, in line with our King or Leader, who appears to have gotten on ICE, & to be almost programed to steal, kill, and destroy. So we look at the surface of things, not the heart of things; the words, not the spirit of things.

As with most covenants, you learn as you go: you are setting rails to run on, to live IN love, and to live OUT love; (at the same time) so you’ll even build on it as you go till you find you have a beautiful dance, song, building, created through the out-workings of this covenant of creative love in God’s World. We’re all invited into it. We find out who the “chosen” are by finding those fish who have been lured by the bait (that expression of God’s Love we find in Jesus) – into LOVE.

3 Christian Washing (Baptism) is following Jesus, with Jesus as our model:

1.      Jesus got “baptised” (washed) with the washing of “John the Washer” as a symbol, model.. but then much later on, he said that

2.      he still had another “baptism” (washing) to undergo (Mark 10, & Luke 12)… what was that? A washing away of this old biological life (because for us it is lived by the principles we learned from the culture of this world;) and a bringing forward of the new life that everyone expected after the General Resurrection at the end of the World (lived by the principles of Love & Wisdom) expressed in Faith, & with an expectation of much, much more. [As James (Jesus’ little brother) says later, looking back at Jesus’ life as he had seen it: The kind of life that God is on about is “Looking after the fatherless & widows in their distress, and keeping oneself uncontaminated by the world”]

3.      The Apostle Paul then actually interprets this (Jesus way of seeing things) for us & says that OUR washing (baptism) is to copy his - his death, burial, and resurrection. So these 3 are central to the life of a Jesus follower, and our Christian washing is the symbol of this new way of living.

4But this baptism is not supposed to make us, as legend says that Pilate became: OCD about hand-washing; nor like filthy pigs that don’t care about getting anything dirty, “… ‘cause we’ll just get it dry-cleaned”. We need washing when-ever we get dirty. As Jesus said to Peter… “If you’ve had a bath, you only need to clean the parts of you that have gotten dirty, in this case your feet”. We need a washing/exchange of our spirit, by a holy spirit, we want to wash away our dirty ol’ lives, then get on with doing what-ever you were washing your hands for: eat a meal, shake someone’s hand, do your art-work, play the piano, cut up the vegies…

5In this case (for Greg & Jacque) , a further background in this symbolism seems to be that families that came into God’s new Covenant or God’s NEW FAMILY AGREEMENT, in the first Century got washed together (like all having a bath, or a swim, together –symbolically following Jesus in washing away their old way of doing life, and taking on his new life). Families do that sort of thing, sometimes.

Here Greg & Jacque have already set themselves to work together with God to create a new family unit, in this New Covenant, strangely, under the rule of “the most maligned, blamed, person in Australia”. So it’s not yet apparent that he’s been picked to rule the Universe; but they’ve placed their eggs in this one basket. So they’re wanting to pledge themselves (and are asking their chosen “God-parents” to pledge them-selves; and also just giving them the right) to poke their nose into the “raising” of Francie; to model themselves, & help train her to head in this same direction of following Jesus, living out his life, he takes fa(r)ther into us, coming to see that the core of reality is in fact personal, & adopting his method & WAY of living, in other words to model to her, & to help train her to: 1) Look after the fatherless & widows in their distress & to  2) Keep uncontaminated by this world’s way of doing things.

I’m suggesting a WINDOW WASHER (and an apron) as an appropriate symbol of the task of keeping on looking at reality through the WORLD-VIEW Yeshua brought us (and doing it).