God's Man & Method...

...Pray .. open hearts toward HIM.... for the help of the Holy Spirit in our leaders' lives... (topic is "You are special"). Grace and Peace, Henry.

God please give your grace

to Henry and Jo

and their team these days,

that they will all know

your spirit's bright help

as they journey on

and their lives all tell

people of your son -

- the def-in-i-tion

of "special" the word;

caught by his fishin',

we eat him, who's heard

then from within us.

Op'sit of "aliens",

he brings, without fuss,

these dead mammalians

ecologic'ly

to life; a new limb

on the human tree,

it all starts with him

- who's now here in me!

Amen! Yes, ah men

(and women) can now

join in, as they then

joined him when they bowed

before him who's head

over Caesar - Lord

of living & dead,

and whom LOVE adored!

[a dear brother & sister who are committed to love, meet with] Sickness, pain, and loss..

Suff-er-ing meets love

not just in one man,

but all of his broth-

-ers and sisters can!

God please do "your son"

in this Chris & Nell,

that what's been undone

will be raised to tell

of your goodness to

all those who look on.

Make them younger, true-

-er, with their health gone.

Some say "If you don't

have your health you've got

no-thing!", but we won't

come at that, it's rot;

since "the crucified"

came & showed his hand,

and also his side;

still don't understand

much except that love

real-ly does exist,

and 's come from above,

and that Nell & Chris

have responded clear

to your hopes and dreams,

that go past this here

world, and what it seems...

The SEER's call to the STUDENT [In the ancient Hebrew way of life & world-view]

Sharon put this bit of scripture to a tune from "Les Miserables", thus:

Proverbs 2 v 1-5        [Sharon Watkins Sings]
http://goo.gl/9esfWo

1 My son, if you accept my words

     and if you store up my commands,

2 turning your ear to what is wise

     and applying your heart to understand—

3 And if you call out for insight

     and cry aloud for understanding,

4 and if you look for it as for silver

     and search for it as for some hidden treasure,

5 then you will understand

         the fear of the Lord

 and you’ll be sure to find

         the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 2 v 1-5       [Paul Walker with notes on piano]
http://goo.gl/IUzv8a

THANK YOU LORD...

Thank you Lord for wife,
thank you Lord for love,
thank you Lord that in all strife
your joy’s on above…

Thank you Oh my love!

Thanks Lord for this body
thanks Lord for those smiles,
(sometimes they seem shody)
it helps us move the miles.

Lord I like your style(s)!

Thank you Lord that in

all of this-here bin

you came here to win

yet felt our chagrin.

You took out the bin!

Thanks Lord that you came

(& you bore my shame)

you came here to fight

for us, for what is right.

I think you’re outta sight.

Thanks Lord that your hand

fits in me like a glove.

I begin to understand

why your “push” ain’t a “shove”.

Thank you oh my Love!

Thanks Lord for these friends,

for all of their true smiles,

though all of these days have ends

they help us move the miles.

Lord I like your style(s)!

Thanks Lord for Shalom,

thanks Lord for Hesed,

thanks Lord that whatever comes,

Joy’s back from the dead…

Thank you oh my head!

this 'ol' life gig

..I mean there is a sense
in which we live alone,
but come through life at length
to know, as we are known.

Not just "to hear as we are heard",
nor only "see, as we are seen",
but with our every spoken word,
to hide, or show, what we have been.

To be known, not just "no-when"
is to g ᘡ t h er / “waste” our thyme,
bring from our secret garden
what dain't even seem to rhyme,

and let the others listen,
share with us this ’ol’ life gig,
what does & doesn't glisten
both old & new, small & big!

(continued in Draft 4 Me... )

These hold our "sense of humour",
and bring a breadth to this life
that's more than just a rumour;
a shared fun, though also strife.

So, maybe know the others well,
who listen and share life with us
as we are know by “who can tell”
with love’s designs & too, love’s fuss!

This "culture" plumbs the depth
of life’s every minute;
& once we’ve “made our bed”,
then we must lie in it!

3. Each of our Lives are Stories, with a beginning, middleing, and ending. Who are the receivers of our stories? ... this 'ol' life gig...

...I mean there is a sense
in which we live alone,
but come through life at length
to know, as we are known.

Not just "to hear as we are heard",
nor only "see, as we are seen",
but with our every spoken word,
to hide, or show, what we have been.

To be this kind of "no-when",
we have to have (and spend) thyme,
bring from our secret garden
what dain't even seem to rhyme,

and let the others listen,
share with us this 'ol' life gig,
what does and doesn't glisten,
both old & new, small & big!...

2. Stories are the containers for holding (& transferring) meaning, and change which means something.

a) from a magazine called "Dumbo Feather" (which is an allusion you would understand if you've TAKEN IN THE STORY OF Dumbo, and could not guess if you haven't). It's subtitle is: PASSION, PURPOSE, COMMUNITY. CONVERSATIONS WITH EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE.

we have an interview with Jane Goodall (a primatologist, who lived with chimpanzees for 25 years), who is passionate about looking after this world & the animals we seem to "have charge of", to learn to live up to that responsibility well.

For her that means we have to change the way we do things, AND HELP OTHERS CHANGE TOO. In passing she comments on CHANGING OUR MINDSETS, seeing that our words are used to craft stories that bring hope, and not letting words (which are meant to be ways of communication to enable life at a bigger, deeper level, with added dimensions) actually stop awe & understanding :

b) the story of a new day starts out for a young man at home, just before he heads off to school; he sits still for a friend to practice his drawing:

c) then on the way home from Newcastle (Newey, as she is affectionately called by those who love her), I saw this in a coffee shop:

1. Words can help us connect meanings from more than one field of knowledge (and maintain a 3D perception to life).

How Do We Know What God Is Like?

a friend's song at the door... (Tune: "Here we go 'round the mulberry bush..")

"How do we know what God is like?

 God is like..
 God is like..
 How do we know what God is like?
...We know because he tells us.."

I couldn't get it out of my mind....
& it got me thinking...

(But if when he tells us, we haven't learnt yet to trust his words, all is not lost.. 
there is still his voice in his all-of-life WORD to us )

1) ...We look around at his world (& try to gain understanding) (Ps 29; Prov 20:12; )

2) ...We see him in relationships with others.. (primarily in good, true and loving actions and body language, Jn 10:37f, Ps82; Prov20:11; 1Cor3v9; 2Cor4:7-11; Eph5:1; the record of some of these relationships is in the scriptures)

3) ...We look at the (highest and best) longings in us.. (Gen 1,2,5; Ps 82; 2Cor4:7-11; Rom 7 n 8)

4) ...We look in the face of Jesus.. 2Cor 4:4b-6; Heb 1:1-3a)
(And who-wee, here it starts blowing out!..)

Things we recall by Chants

Mark 4:35-5:43. Note in each of these 4 stories, how Jesus handles being blamed or laughed at; cf at his trial.

So earth has the sheen

of "in Heaven";

Proverbs 19

verse 11:

If you are sensible

you will

control your temper.

When someone wrongs you

it’s a great virtue

to ignore it.

(instead of "Shit!")

Proverbs 19

verse 11.

So Earth has the sheen

of "in Heaven";

One Peter 2 verse 23

When he was insulted

(insulted!) he

did not answer back with an

insult when he

suffered he did not threaten

but he placed his

hopes in God the

the righteous Judge.

That is one Pee

ta chapter 2,

verse 23,

that's what I'll do,

that is for me!

(Note also Jesus not only ignores people’s insults, as they kill him, he prays for the people.. cf “our battle is not..”)  recording short URL: goo.gl/mCm9b3