Morning!

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My biggest need just now’s to be with you 

and you've already met that here today 

so what have I got left right now to do-

but  march into a dance, and straight away!

Your spirit is my help in thought and word

and action most of all. What can I say?

A simple tilt of head, two eyes that curled

upwards, the lack of sight does not display

a lack of love, but fans the hopefulness,

as child might look at wrapped box under tree

in glad anticipation, not duress,

the looking stirs it's Mum & Dad with glee.

And when I look up, and your face is not

these days for me - not seen,

It just recalls his words, he said we’ve got

determinations made, as though he’d mean

to keep the present wrapped until the day

when all will be revealed, the presnt’s mine..

How happy then the pure in heart will stay

to share it's goodness, with the givers shine

of face that beams on down as brightest sun.

When eyes have grown more tough and able to

not shrivel in the light that is enough

to love worlds into being. I love you!

And you are here with me in bed, right now.

I’m late to be at coffee with a mate.

But lovers sometimes make things up somehow.

I’ll trust you through this day, which is our “date”.

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dis play of love..

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Oh God, I love this growing up in love

and understanding too, to be like you -

the only wise God (who stands out above

all others who at most, like A.I. do…

do NOT know people in mammalian ways,

with nurture, interactions that are fun,

and pass their likenesses and what displays

on face and features, on to each last one

of their offspring, through DNA and more

(as culture and approach is passed down too).

How wonderful that we, as said before

have got the chance to grow to be like you!

And as I woke this morning and walked here

I understood why differences in view,

approach, appreciations, what is dear

to men & women (and quite diff’rent too),

must really truly be “there” and are quite

essential to the human project’s good-

ness and are not just aberrant they might

be necessarily here, and what should

not be what’s done away with if we could.

The diff’rent views and expectations are

what gives us here a chance to show love stood

upon this Earth, and is not very far

from any of us. But we can pull out 

its little seedlings, while they’re not distinct.

I start to see that grown plants here would shout

that love exists, despite missed when we blinked.

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Blessings ’25, Week 4/5

 

Bles-sings bless songs - by singing them into existence within this model of heaven (which is what Earth was designed to be).

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Blest be the One who looks backwards - until 

the goodness which is there, can be unearthed

& seen on Earth again, the gold there will

shine as it does, itself. It is re-birthed,

and brought out to the air to start to breathe,

and then becomes a gift that draws atten-

tion to itself, as currency let's leave

the real commodities elsewhere, so then..

Blessed be the One who lets goodness again

embody itself in them, and delight

in pro- creating he-re, so that when

the books (our lives) are seen, and opened, after night..

Blessed be the One who lets that goodness in,

and out again, and does not keep it there, 

but let's the life unfold that will begin

but has no end, for death is not it's “pair”, 

but just a shadow, artefact of eyes 

and kinds of light they see (& cannot too).

Blessed be the One who’s partnered, no despise-

-ing of someone be'coz they share with you.. 

Blest be the One.. who shows all grace’s face-

-es. His partner’s the one who newly trace

-es lines within the earthy humus place

-es, which may then be passed on - a new race…

And bless’ed be the One, who once begun,

does not just stop when fun has got away.

They, with the truly only living one,

in partnership, would keep on! This display

of persistence, & perseverance too,

of presence to make present what was, (Hey!)

not yet embodied here on Earth, they do

and thus create, re-model here in clay…

the principles and core, that  heaven is

the blue-print plan, that's in the maker’s mind,

but builders take this work of art, this biz’-

nus that we build up, out, for folk to find*…

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*  “God, who made the world and everything in it, is Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands. 25Nor does he need anything that we can supply by working for him, since it is he himself who gives life and breath and everything else to everyone. 26From one human being he created all races on earth and made them live throughout the whole earth. He himself fixed beforehand the exact times and the limits of the places where they would live. 27He did this so that they would look for him, and perhaps find him as they felt about for him. Yet God is actually not far from any one of us; 28as someone has said, ‘In him we live and move and exist.’ It is as some of your poets have said, ‘We too are his children.’ (Acts 17:24-28 GNBUK)

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HÉSED *

*(family/ loyal/ covenant/ fair-dinkum/ unwritten-though-not-unexpressed-or-unperceived) - LOVE°!

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I’m banking all my life & hopes on this.

I’m betting all my wealth & chips to win.

I’m trusting more than mechanisms, his..

his fatherly advice, example in

well, ev’rything to do with how to be,

to think, to act, and motivations too,

his “means and ends” for everything we see, 

and much that we will never. Way to do!

The path or way to get to changes made,

within a Universe where time and choice

exist, though we ourselves are portals bade

by gods from some dimension - we’re their voice.

So choosing from among the gods, whom we

will listen to, and learn from, to grow up

to really become like-nesses of, see

things through the eyes of, with the same tender

provision, sense of humour, culture’s stuff:

the language used and why & when, & how,

the things that we enact, and keep, enough

to then, in turn, define, before our bow!

Our method, where our hopes and dreams are seen.

The kind of things that bring our anger out,

or gladness, pleasure, what frustration means

for us, and how we deal with it. D’we shout?

Would we be willing to destroy a thing

once we have spent creative work on it?

Would we be able to refrain? -to sing

when our own will was crossed? What’s our gambit?

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°  A “sure-fire”**, most-excellent, winning way; that is easy, not hard (though there is some small aspect that needs to be hard for the whole thing to work - hard as nails). Easy, though there is definitely a need for diligence, and discipline, and dependence  (=discipl-eship).

**  (Not that I won’t experience a full on simulation & experience of pulling the trigger and hearing only a click, and perceiving that no apparent projectile emerges.) “Sure-fire” here is meaning primarily “sure”, “never fails”, “certain”, “won’t let you down”, “brings existence into being, so cannot just cease itself”... all of which words or phrases are not labels, but signposts, which point to something that you see when you look past the sign in the direction it is pointing. Then the  multiplicity of signposts (words), especially if from different angles, can help you to pinpoint the actuality (that no label can permanently stick to), and come to actually know (easily), that which otherwise, by word-labels only, would be unknowable (since the labels won’t stick to it).

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HESÉD (family/ loyal/ covenant/ fair-dinkum/ unwritten-though-not-unexpressed-or-unperceived) - LOVE!

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A “sure-fire”*, most-excellent, winning way; that is easy, not hard (though there is some small aspect that needs to be hard for the whole thing to work - hard as nails). Easy, though there is definitely a need for diligence, and discipline, and dependence  (=discipleship).

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*  Not that I won’t experience a full on simulation of pulling the trigger and hearing only a click. No apparent projectile emerges. “Sure-fire” here is meaning primarily “sure”, “never fails”, “certain”, “won’t let you down”, “will never fail”... all of which words or phrases are not labels, but signposts, which point to something that you see when you look past the sign in the direction it is pointing. The multiplicity of signposts (words), especially if from different angles, can help you to pinpoint the actuality (that no label can permanently stick to), and come to actually know (easily), that which otherwise, by word-labels only, would be unknowable.

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for ward

 (of  Heaven and Earth)..

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The God whose hand gives me each breath I take,

and chance to think, recall, and make a choice

as conscious being, who can see and make

and put together words that thus gives voice

to matter and to energy down here;

that recognizes good and sees its source,

and is then able to focus, and cheer

another on, as they move through this course.

I seem to have capacity to see, 

and act and speak in ways that focus light

upon the stage of life we call hist’ry 

that helps all goodness to be glorified.

And so I now acknowledge what I’ve learned

by looking, seeing, list’ning, hearing too,

and thinking, so to honour (not to spearn)

deployment of creative love that woos

so much, so often, so to grow us up -

to be ourselves such humans as might make

our father to be blest, and not corrupt

his world, imaginations that might take

the Earth into the spaces that would bring

some smile upon the dial of good itself,

to join in with what heaven loves to sing.

To help shallom, to thrive, which must mean health-

y kinds of ecosystems that enhance

the whole she-bang, as goodness might well hope

it would become if we took ev’ry chance

to just acknowledge both what’s seen and known!

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“...But the God in whose hand is your life breath, & all your ways are his, you did not glorify..” 

• You acted against the Lord of heaven - you have exalted yourself against him..

• You praised gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone — gods that cannot see or hear and that do not know anything. 

But 

• you did not honour the God in whose power is your very breath, and 

• you did not honour the God to whom belongs all your ways

Daniel, speaking to the King, son of Nebuchadnezzar, after being called on to interpret a cryptic text written in front of him on the wall of his festival room, by a disembodied hand:

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“...But the God in whose hand is your life breath, & all your ways are his, you did not glorify..” (Daniel 5:23, The Hebrew Bible, translated into English by Robert Alter)

“You acted against the Lord of heaven and brought in the cups and bowls taken from his Temple. You, your noblemen, your wives, and your concubines drank wine out of them and praised gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone — gods that cannot see or hear and that do not know anything. But you did not honour the God who determines whether you live or die and who controls everything you do. 24That is why God has sent the hand to write these words. (Daniel 5:23-24 GNBUK)

“You have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven! The vessels of his temple have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have been drinking wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose power is your very breath and to whom belong all your ways, you have not honored. (Daniel 5:23 NRSVUE)

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The next King, King Darius to Daniel in the Lion Pit:

“Your God who you always worship will save you.” 

& In the morning after a sleepless night (of fasting) he spoke in a sad voice to Daniel… 

“the king spoke out, ‘Daniel, servant of the living God, your God whom you worship always, can he have saved you from the Lions?’

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King Nebuchadnezzar after dream and fulfillment:

His kingdom shall endure, and his dominion is forever… 

King Nebuchadnezzar after Shadrach Meshach & Abednego’s disobedience to the King and obedience to the King of kings and the fiery furnace:

His kingdom shall endure, and his dominion is forever…

King Darius, after Daniel & the Lions’ pit:

His kingdom shall endure, and his dominion is forever…

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part of partnership..

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The way to grow, so you will know the path -

to such extent that you won’t just stumble 

yourself, and you can be of help not laugh

at little ones, and those who are humble.

(And that’s the starting point right here for me,

to learn to learn, to discipline myself,

and also to be quick to look up, see

myself as God’s small child. He is my health.)

“So then, wrote Paul (from Cent’ry number One)

dear friends, as you obeyed me when I was 

there with you, in your town, when you’d begun

to follow God’s own chosen Emp’ror ‘coz

it’s even more important that you do

obey me now while I’m away from you:

So keep on working from your side of things

with fear and trembling, not triumphaling,

so partnership of God and you, will tru-

ly be growing effective. Trust, complete

the work of your salvation, God is too

(& always) working in you (this is neat)

to make you willing, able to obey 

his own purpose that Goodness be displayed.

Do everything without complaining (hey!)

or arguing, as innocent as, say

a perfect little child of God, who’s pure,

and perfect in God’s eyes, ‘coz God is sure

that God will still be round, though world’s  corrupt.

So shine, as stars are seen, when folk  look up.

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Notes

“So then, dear friends, as you always obeyed me when I was with you, it is even more important that you obey me now while I am away from you. Keep on working with fear and trembling to complete your salvation, 13because God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey his own purpose. 14Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15so that you may be innocent and pure as God's perfect children, who live in a world of corrupt and sinful people. You must shine among them like stars lighting up the sky, 16as you offer them the message of life. If you do so, I shall have reason to be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because it will show that all my effort and work have not been wasted.”  (Philippians 2:12-16)

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