God's blessing be upon this bunch,
as they meet up or just have lunch.
We see our plans don't always work,
but whether we're at home, or kirk,
or in the park, or at the zoo,
we lift our hearts, & each to you.
2013-03-21
2013-03-15
Was Katie being silly, when she said "Pray for Milly"?
God, thank you for Milly;
U gave us her in Tas-
-mania, and silly
us named her, names she has:
Battle-maiden, one in
a hundred thousand strong,
God make her against sin,
and Evil's string-along.
Jayne; wise, gift (from above)
give her that, & make her,
to live out your true love,
that no trick will shake her.
Please will you give her strength
& gracious help as well,
that she might rest, the length
of these tough times -your gell.
Amen.
U gave us her in Tas-
-mania, and silly
us named her, names she has:
Battle-maiden, one in
a hundred thousand strong,
God make her against sin,
and Evil's string-along.
Jayne; wise, gift (from above)
give her that, & make her,
to live out your true love,
that no trick will shake her.
Please will you give her strength
& gracious help as well,
that she might rest, the length
of these tough times -your gell.
Amen.
2013-03-12
Please help our sister, God.
Good news, Anna.
Thanks for filling us in.
Please God, can a
splodge of grace be given
to Anna's dad
who needs you now more than
ever he had,
'cause - closer to the end..
..or is it the
beginning, that he is
closer to? We
forget our life's like his.
Len, Hannah, and
Petra who're visiting
later on, can
also be blessed, to sing...
Please make Anna
able to do work well
collecting your manna,
and sharing like a bell.
Amen.
2013-03-08
Man of Sorrows
O my God I feel like dying,
don't feel like living on -
I've had a few drinks, not lying,
but EVERYTHING feels wrong.
Where were you when I was seven?
- and all my other life?
- my dreams that turned from heaven
to hell, and men of strife,
to men who forced little boys
(to make themselves feel tough)
men who made them shrink to toys
- and still weren't man enough.
I haven't had a good night's sleep
in 30 good long years
and many days I have a weep,
shed sad (and angry) tears.
I somehow feel responsible
complicit to those acts
of degradation - fearful-
I never can relax.
My God, I'm glad that other Man
has come to this here Earth
and "took" the stuff that this world can
throw at us after birth.
He showed us how to stay in charge;
your tiny little son.
and trusted when Evil was large,
and you saw that he won! -
- Not by never feeling that pain
and keeping free of strife,
but running back to you again
then passing on that life.
His never-giving-up-ish life;
and that's what I need now,
while these destructive thoughts are rife
please save me now, somehow
from blaming every other one,
or just being selfish,
since you awoke me as your son,
to not clam up, a shellfish.
don't feel like living on -
I've had a few drinks, not lying,
but EVERYTHING feels wrong.
Where were you when I was seven?
- and all my other life?
- my dreams that turned from heaven
to hell, and men of strife,
to men who forced little boys
(to make themselves feel tough)
men who made them shrink to toys
- and still weren't man enough.
I haven't had a good night's sleep
in 30 good long years
and many days I have a weep,
shed sad (and angry) tears.
I somehow feel responsible
complicit to those acts
of degradation - fearful-
I never can relax.
My God, I'm glad that other Man
has come to this here Earth
and "took" the stuff that this world can
throw at us after birth.
He showed us how to stay in charge;
your tiny little son.
and trusted when Evil was large,
and you saw that he won! -
- Not by never feeling that pain
and keeping free of strife,
but running back to you again
then passing on that life.
His never-giving-up-ish life;
and that's what I need now,
while these destructive thoughts are rife
please save me now, somehow
from blaming every other one,
or just being selfish,
since you awoke me as your son,
to not clam up, a shellfish.
2013-02-25
4 a team of Jesus-followers in a nearby town.
God give this team & their leaders
boldness, wisdom, clarity, love;
that wooed, listeners can be heed-ers,
of your Life-Message from above.
boldness, wisdom, clarity, love;
that wooed, listeners can be heed-ers,
of your Life-Message from above.
2013-02-24
On their wedding day, they asked us to pray
God, thanks for Bethany
& this Nathaniel guy.
Know there isn't any
more they can do than try.
Please help them not to fly
past the primary step, which
must come before we try
to do good things. To switch
ON that small power point,
-even if we’re plugged in,
else work won’t be anoint-
-ed with power to beat sin.
So, help them both to win
battles to be “hearted” -
-check power’s ON, plug’s IN,
before trying’s started.
Amen
& this Nathaniel guy.
Know there isn't any
more they can do than try.
Please help them not to fly
past the primary step, which
must come before we try
to do good things. To switch
ON that small power point,
-even if we’re plugged in,
else work won’t be anoint-
-ed with power to beat sin.
So, help them both to win
battles to be “hearted” -
-check power’s ON, plug’s IN,
before trying’s started.
Amen
2013-02-21
Some things just ARE!
God remains good
even when I
don't know, nor could
tell how - or why?
Love is like that;
it 'snot explained,
goes in to bat
not for what's gained
for itself. It
is a first cause.
"Happens!" - like "shit".
Has no "because.."
..which comes after;
"Because" comes first.
Love's the rafter.
Love is what nursed..
..each of us in-
to this world, and
any be-ing!
It is not bland.
It does the seeing!
Hardly the blind,
softly showing
us what we find..
..all our knowing
that's worth anything
'scome through going
where Love's leading.
Love is what nursed..
..each of us in-
to this world, and
any be-ing!
It is not bland.
It does the seeing!
Hardly the blind,
softly showing
us what we find..
..all our knowing
that's worth anything
'scome through going
where Love's leading.
2013-02-16
God is working, Life is lurking!
God, may your name be honoured.
in your land - we walk upon it!
Take charge o'er what you've given.
Many lambs, bleat for heaven!
May your will be done - these "here"s,
as it is when LIFE appears.
You who've killed death, by contact.
Christ! It's his life we have backed.
Oh that NEW kind of living
has no few ways of giving.
All that's done is a sieving
of what's come from beliving.
More truly: AU THOR IT Y
is all yours and thus because
as you said we are all dead,
yet YOU can raise us again.
Hallelu, Hallelujah!
Amen.
2013-02-14
"Pray for me" says Sophie.
God, you've grown Sophie
up, so far; & will
help her rest, grow free,
and care, as able.
And where she's just not;
to not fret or pout,
but give thanks for what
she's got: "Do" without,
or ask for help from
who you've put around.
Glad that your breath's gone
out, to save who's drowned.
up, so far; & will
help her rest, grow free,
and care, as able.
And where she's just not;
to not fret or pout,
but give thanks for what
she's got: "Do" without,
or ask for help from
who you've put around.
Glad that your breath's gone
out, to save who's drowned.
2013-02-10
The "Solit--- Confinement" of M--- (& me) Part A
The Scripture & the "Script you are"
-breathed into by the Holy
breath of Life - giv’n CPR
and TO LIFE comes the lowly.
2). Jesus, I'm imagining
you here, since by reasons good
I know you are, and you're King.
I wonder now just what would.... (t.b.c.)
-breathed into by the Holy
breath of Life - giv’n CPR
and TO LIFE comes the lowly.
Well God, right now, here I am…
1). Am I now a holy COW?
(* let the reader understand)
Confessed of sin, (& just how? -
own it as - just what it is,
& own it too as mine,
send it far away - as his
commands did all the time
[with all those unclean spirits
who seemed to dog his life
so he would only hear it’s
voice in his ears - & mind.
The bully-ing & shouting,
the sneaking plaintif cry,
were all sent on an outing
- and never explained why!
He didn’t stop and load up,
(but neither did he pry)
but every time they showed up
he shut them up, “Out-side!”])
Offered up, a sacrifice
to God, in life & death.
That all I do, as with Christ,
be God’s: thought, act, word, breath.
Walking in the Spirit’s life
thus seeing, as did Christ.
Thinking, acting, as his child:
Love’s no great sacrifice.
2). Jesus, I'm imagining
you here, since by reasons good
I know you are, and you're King.
I wonder now just what would.... (t.b.c.)
2013-02-09
The rhythms of LIFE in our (BMC) community.
God, please help us to
see things as you do.
We want to listen,
let your life glisten:
Love & truth both to
join in our task-group.
That we might re-al-ly
serve this old BMC.
We need your breath-wind
to blow, else we'll hind-
-er your true rhythms;
as corpses need life given.
Blood beating, breath drawn;
mouth to mouth, CPR.
Song sung, & beat kept,
in your rhythms 2 B swept!
2013-02-02
All in a day’s work - TAKE 2
Although
we’re of-ten diff’rent
on the issue of “keeping”-
"old stuff that has been broken
down" - some smiling, some weeping.
Most of us know that some things
should be thrown out and others
could be kept for re-use-ings.
One kind of keeping smothers,
and one re- uses things well.
But when-ev'r it comes to “Things”-
“that just must be done”, I’ll tell
you a way that brings us wings:
Do it! Don’t just hang around,
for the more you put it off;
the more it wastes time & ground,
and somehow it makes you “soft”.
“Soft” in the worst way to be
sometimes we must be quite hard.
Do the job, and then you’ll see
it came good, & hasn’t jarred.
A day’s work gets done by this
mode or meth-odology:
clarify just what you’ll kiss
“Hello” & “Goodbye” to. See,
the first job that must be done
is work out “What’s the job here?”,
second one is just as fun:
“Just do it!”, with love, not fear.
Relevant background quote/thought:
on the issue of “keeping”-
"old stuff that has been broken
down" - some smiling, some weeping.
Most of us know that some things
should be thrown out and others
could be kept for re-use-ings.
One kind of keeping smothers,
and one re- uses things well.
But when-ev'r it comes to “Things”-
“that just must be done”, I’ll tell
you a way that brings us wings:
Do it! Don’t just hang around,
for the more you put it off;
the more it wastes time & ground,
and somehow it makes you “soft”.
“Soft” in the worst way to be
sometimes we must be quite hard.
Do the job, and then you’ll see
it came good, & hasn’t jarred.
A day’s work gets done by this
mode or meth-odology:
clarify just what you’ll kiss
“Hello” & “Goodbye” to. See,
the first job that must be done
is work out “What’s the job here?”,
second one is just as fun:
“Just do it!”, with love, not fear.
Relevant background quote/thought:
- “your love has meant hard work” (NT: 1Thess 1:2-3)
2013-02-01
2 days later, how did cater?
Dear Sister Kate,
how ya going?
How was the meal
with your family?
Hope your mind's slate
is now flowing
with more that's real
to set you free.
But if it's not,
Oh please dear God
Remind Kate still
of Your good will..
..t'wards not just men,
when Mary, when
she brought to birth
your Son to Earth.
Amen/women.
how ya going?
How was the meal
with your family?
Hope your mind's slate
is now flowing
with more that's real
to set you free.
But if it's not,
Oh please dear God
Remind Kate still
of Your good will..
..t'wards not just men,
when Mary, when
she brought to birth
your Son to Earth.
Amen/women.
2013-01-31
Anothen (Gk:=from-above/again) Wisdom
Master,
we’ve worked hard all night, and yet
Some relevant back-ground thoughts/quotes:
caught
nothing; but if you say so I’ll
on the other side, let down my net.
(But you don’t appear to know our style,
or much about fishing, you’re still wet
behind the ear - in this sphere, & while
you speak confidently, you don’t let
others teach you, from their store or pile
of wisdom they’ve learned, - & won’t forget.)
No slouch, but ouch,
His grace is traced..
2 “Grouch” a stoush
of fish was dished,
and such said much
more than words can.
Lord depart from me, for I am ae
man who falls short of for why I’m made
My cat-eg-or-ies are all undone.
Don’t think I could fol-low - walk or run.
Hurts to have you stay & treat me so.
This is a grace, that I have not known.
Later on, they said that “good, for bad”
was “coals of fire on head”; Yes, it’s mad!
I’ll follow till I’m dead, and be glad!
on the other side, let down my net.
(But you don’t appear to know our style,
or much about fishing, you’re still wet
behind the ear - in this sphere, & while
you speak confidently, you don’t let
others teach you, from their store or pile
of wisdom they’ve learned, - & won’t forget.)
No slouch, but ouch,
His grace is traced..
2 “Grouch” a stoush
of fish was dished,
and such said much
more than words can.
Lord depart from me, for I am ae
man who falls short of for why I’m made
My cat-eg-or-ies are all undone.
Don’t think I could fol-low - walk or run.
Hurts to have you stay & treat me so.
This is a grace, that I have not known.
Later on, they said that “good, for bad”
was “coals of fire on head”; Yes, it’s mad!
I’ll follow till I’m dead, and be glad!
Some relevant back-ground thoughts/quotes:
- Luke 5:1-9: Simon hung out with Jesus (which is always a two-way thing), then listens to Jesus's words of counsel (even in a sphere of life that Simon may have thought him un-qualified), and acts on them.. the result is astounding, not "normal", unconventional, enough to make him feel unworthy of Jesus' presence. Jesus words/actions convince him (for a time?) that he can trust Jesus to look after his food/family & he can do the job Jesus is calling/sending him to do (which happens to be another step up from fishing for fish).
- Jesus prays [= Hangout with God and Listen to his counsel (HWGALTHC)] before he goes to preach throughout Galilee (instead of staying in & around Capernaum, where he has now set up house.
- Jesus prays (HWGALTHC) before choosing the twelve (including someone who would betray him)
- Jesus prays (HWGALTHC) for hours after feeding the 5k families, when they want to make him king, then trusts God to enable him to get to the other side of the lake anyway (without a boat, & without walking around)
- Jesus prays (HWGALTHC) before throwing out the unclean spirit in the boy with epilepsy, when his disciples (who had been given authority over ALL unclean spirits) couldn't.
- Jesus prays (HWGALTHC) in Gethsemane & is enabled to take his human body to a suffering & death that it dreaded (on the way to great JOY), like a mother giving birth.
- Jesus prays (HWGALTHC) and Simon "comes back" or "returns", and can be given the job of strengthening his brothers, &...
- John 21:1-14 "deja vu" Jesus comes to hangout with Simon/Peter & Peter runs to him, does a job for him, dialogues with him, listens to Jesus' questions, tries & fails to answer, and can be given the job of feeding Jesus' sheep.
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