Christmas-break kid's program

Brad's brief outline of the Christmas break kid's program he is inviting us all to help with:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y7n9QJu-DH2Vi7N0-RS5zZNH3bmYA-Np/view?usp=drivesdk

Raised Above - through trust, expectation, & love.

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Our next chapter in Stephanie Davies-Arai’s book “Communicating with kids” is Chapter 6: Responding to Negative Feelings.

I expect Katrina's & all your openness to God's wisdom will help you make sense of what may at times feel like contradictory strands... In a two dimensional world... The third dimension of wisdom is what resolves the apparently paradoxical advice of this chapter ..

Hope it is a good time together.

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God, please give wisdom to these folk to raise

(as you did with your Christ) the children you

have given them as just one cell in space,

to grow more to reflect the Christ to view.

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Cross purposes

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That secret weapon Christ claimed as a tool

when taken from the pow’rs that dominate,

coerce, control, make others’ plans look fool

-ish; just by letting them, and then await

-ing love’s creative deep capacities

and trusting all his self to its judgement,

above, beyond all pow’rs of enemies,

enlisting “deeper magic” as it’s sent

out ev’ry day, as rain falls on the fields 

of good and bad alike, and gives to each

a joy and pleasure, which helps each heart yield

somehow to love’s big purposes to teach

us how to shine it back in kind, good hearts

to shine the light, in universe so dark

unless there was a light, that truly starts

all life off, just as fire can come from spark.

They wanted more machines, so used up men

& women as machines to serve their “need”.

He wants God’s children, now, as well as then, 

to raise them up, by following his lead -

to grow through all potential ways when let..

that great love, which keeps this whole world in place

(if not for all eternity, I bet

it’s for confinement time, until there’s traced

a coming out of elements & stone…

and wood would do the job of raising love

above desire (to feel good, or atone).

And tree limbs could help raise us up - above.

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start to spring

Busy… following through with plans from the past and commitments to connect…

Txt2Me:Sounds like a start to spring

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Text from me: Yes..

What is it that keeps life full springing forth

from dormant, or dead-looking sorts of forms?

What is it that points magnets to the North,

impelling love to venture past the norms?

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medical procedure

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God, please give all the team your wisdom in

the carrying of this procedure out

or in to my friend's body where blood's been

a-coming from. We know you care about

these things which mean our body's vul'nrable.

But that is just what you made that was good,

and meant for us to have as use-a-ble

to get us on the ground as Jesus could

& did, to serve this world you made - to serve

your little children as their home sweet home.

This lovely house (or tent) helps us have nerve

to follow him who taught us how to roam.

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three days dead outside front door

I know Paul John & I weren't close, but we knew of each other's lives by what his parents & my parents passed on. And it felt like we were kept open to each other that way. And that possibilities were kept open, that may not (or may well) be there now... (@ least short-term).

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God rest his soul, in arms that he has known

when child, and at times as he grew up too,

and help return both he and we (as shown

by Jesus) to the grave-womb that Christ knew.

And if we will again as children come,

he said that he would not turn us away.

Though we live in this time where we see some

things, we are glad you, God, said what you say...

through your own chosen and anointed one,

and know the Judge-of-all will know the facts,

and we are not that Judge, but the true Son

said more is told by (not our words, but) acts

and that there are surprises still in store,

for all of us, in that reality:

The smallest weakest may be that much more,

and first may be the last. Soon we'll all see.

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Memorial Service: Sent by Dad, just before I talked with Aunty Glenna at ~10am

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talk about...

Txt2Me: ..".. had planned to meet with the JWs and talk about Jesus .."

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Reply:

Please God make o-pen-ings because your Christ

is such a leader that all humans can

quite gladly follow. Your voice has sufficed

to stamp on him your honour as THE MAN.

Collapsing into each day as your child

without the cares of property and rent,

or food or drink, or shelter is the wild

"untamed" way, you showed us life could be spent

as one great pilgrimage throughout your world,

with fam-i-ly (& you, our LORD, and GOD).

What high adventure - so to be quite hurled

into (for us) an unknown, as we've got

here, ev'ry day. And this day is no freak;

you lead in triumph (though through way of death).

And looking to our end (you gave a peak)

in those times that they ate with Christ, when breath

of Christ (the High King Over All)⁹ was sent

to be embodied here again in flesh

and bones as we have now. He never went

back. His "right spirit"* will renew, enmesh

& tangle all of life up in your way

of love & service in your world of folk

from ev'ry corner of the world, today.

This is a kind of lovely riddle/ joke! 

Please help us to retain the punch-line clear,

not telling it in such a way it's lost

on any truly open kind of ear..

please help us in repast and in reposte.

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 *  “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit. (Psalms 51:10-12 NRSVUE)

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Boasting*

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I’ll boast in all my weaknesses, & shame, 

my difficulties, death & troubles, too;

the active conquering, winning love that’s named

Yeshua, who can save both me & you

from our own faults and immaturities,

our falling-short of what we’d like to be,

our missing of the mark (that would so please

us, as we grow to Christ’s maturity).

The kind of grown-up-ness that he displayed

throughout his life when folk made fun of him -

he’d trust himself to One who this world made,

& know that love could never more shine dim,

though it might look like it was blotted out,

exhausted, or be-nighted, overcome.

But that’s like sun shine “stopped” by banks of cloud,

or rain that falls down here on ev’ry one,

because of love’s own wish to convince us

to let it help (because we're made for such).

Brain hemisphere that’s Left on own might fuss

but if it’s joined up with the Right, then much

could be achieved; once partnership is prized,

but also living under leadership.

So not as Ciaphas had Christ despised,

but as ol’ Nicodemus made his quip*.

I’ll boast of love of God, in Christ, displayed

those days by their own partnership lived out

in taking up a cross, where men were made

or else unmade, as they caved in to  doubt.

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Notes:

g*  2Cor 12:9-10; Romans 5:3-4; Galatians 6:14

p*  “ 51‘Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?’(John 7:50-51 NIVUK)

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Less spruiking, more list’ning .. at meetings on Earth.

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God, help your boys (and me), to have the grace

to ask good questions of the others round,

and listen carefully to every face

(and body) that would speak, as we have found

that language isn't all about the words

that make up speech or get writ down in text.

We learn from you* (and those in packs and herds*)

that acts and body-placement are less vexed..

well, ..methods of communication which

(especially when it comes to) show off love -

are fuller, more consistent, they don't ditch

and leave folk high and dry. They're "from above"*.

As James remembered his big brother* for

the sake of helping little brothers* round

to follow in his footsteps; he said more

to listen, less to speak. Anger be found

less quickly to rise up within our selves,

if we were to please God - to make his day!*

Thus not left high & dry up on some  shelves

with 30 years & future CROSSed a WAY*!

And here & now, he calls to follow him.

from this place in the world, on dusty streets,

to please what makes a mate be  fairdinkum -

(by being it - with ev’ry mate he meets!)

And strangely, taking up our own cross too*,

and dying by that tree (that brings on  death)

to all our hopes for glory in this zoo,

this womb, as though we don’t need ev’ry breath*.

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Notes

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tough day at school...

Wednesday,10Sept2025

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“Today we’ve moved along the track..” (I wink)..

“I tried to do some drawings when folk worked,

and tricked some kids to listen up & think.

But sometimes they did act out - quite berserk.”

And this is not a problem in itself,

it’s more the consequences for the group.

How can a child who asks for special help

be given it when others then throw food,

or paper sheets, scrunched up into tight balls.

The kids who come from backgrounds that grow guts,

persistence, perseverance, through the falls

of life, and bleeding from the paper cuts

of bureaucratic systems, or the want

of cats that might appear just stretching legs

with claws extended, yawning, nonchalant-

ly, doing what might hurt or harm which begs

to differ just because it then feels best.

It’s jealous and it doesn’t like to lose. …

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god-child

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God make this blessed man a blessing true

to people as they live out there at Forbes

and may they understand more of how you

would like to see life done within our orbs

around the sun, as year turns into years,

and as this human project runs along

the track that you had hoped (when we have ears)

to join in with your purposes & song..

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in trouble ... in bubble

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God, wisdom please! And patience too. And joy

in deeper, unseen stuff than even this

whole world (where we now live, as girl or boy

in Mummy's tummy). To grow up - not miss-

miss-take the situation we're now in

as though this were the proper grown-up stage,

yet let the exercise of stuff we've been 

here given, still grow habits which engage

our muscles, sinuses, tendons and the like,

with nerves and "bones" beginning to become

of use, though we could hardly see, or hike

that far, or even understand what some

might think the basics of life "on the out"...

So look and listen as much as we can.

We don’t have much worth-while to say, or spout..

But doing as we need, will build the man,

or woman we are meant to be one day.

That day is coming, when our “night” has passed

and we come to the outside world the way

that Christ moved to the heavenly - world-classed

achievement (that was claimed for Caesars, say,

collecting somehow credence for the next

as “SON OF GOD”, but) his move ‘gainst the snake,

well for the source of life, not just the text,

the label, or the stamp; but true at core

to what is real and permanent, in love.

We’re dropping words and taking up what’s more

important in that life that’s “from above”.

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toddler tumult

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Oh God, please help that Mum with squeamish boy,

to have wisdom to see what's going down,

to play the part of parent, full of joy,

and praying as she gives thanks on this ground.

But maybe, as I think some later on,

there might be need for anger in this  world..

It might not be too bad a note in song;

at the right time, not quickly as if hurled.

They say that God is slow to anger and

abounding in that HESED (loving kind-

-ness) and James says quick anger can not stand

& carry righteous living forward - mind...

This doesn’t play the part of nounish thought

to bring the world to heel, to me, myself.

That kind of rule makes sep'rate things be wrought

to do the will of who’s in charge, has wealth.

The way of HESED works by teaming up,

a covenant, or partnership’s the thing.

And in that context truth won’t just corrupt

because who’s fitted best for job must bring

that to the table, love must need sometimes

to have a small & weak one soaking up

more love into this world, to then make rhymes

perpetuating how one might erupt.

And that CREATIVE HESED is the WAY

to forward move, to live, to love, in truth.

And now I see it, I must further say

it is the way to all eternal youth.

Amen

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mind set

Determinations

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Oh “Dadda” here I am. I am your child.

Your little child, who must look up throughout

the day at ev’ry lovely thing or wild

adventure, or some trouble, or some doubt,

to share the whole with you, to learn to see

each one of these aright, with feelings which

are meant to come along, and add, and be

mixed in with all I call experience.

So here, I’m starting off today, this way

by looking up, out window t’wards the sky

(the curtain, blue or black, or white, displayed

with colours of the rainbow, as light shines,

from where we get our rain that sucours life,

from where shows sun and moon to help us see,

from where our biggest dangers could be rife;

yet overseen by who made gravity)

I know you're there and look down from above,

with HESED, Hebrews called your cov’nant love

which sees the other, not as thing to shove,

but fam’ly, to be handled with kid glove.

I treasure all your friendship, thoughtfulness,

provision for my day, and tasks, and self.

And want to live together and redress

my immaturities, and lack of health-

-y motives, and responses, ends & means.

I’m glad to have your presence, though I’ll not

be seeing you as well as those seeings

I’m s'posed to give attention to, by God!

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