Thinking of that fellow you mentioned the other day who was inclusive, & what he said to someone (your Grandfather?), and some of the core of Jesus' teaching, and your life, & the times you are quite child-like in trusting and wanting great things.... All that was in the mix with "Easter", and gave birth yesterday to the poemish thing below (after the two paraphrases of JC)
"unless you are changed & become like a little child you will never really know God's hope for what we'd grow into, his help to become it, nor enjoy the fullness of his creative power" JC
"unless you give up all rights to yourself, and unflinching head for the worst death our culture can dream up, watch what I do and copy it, you are not a follower of me." JC
The message of Christ's death
is foolish to those who
are looking for more breath,
but shun all those who do
love life, truth, good power
that's in line with what's "wild".
But who lives in "the now",
and like a little child,
not trying "not to bow",
but wide eyed all the while,
is helped by who knows how,
& gives a grateful smile.
This one is being saved
from matrix-es around
(that powerful ones have craved);
Child walk on holy ground!
The message of the cross is foolish to those who are heading for destruction, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:18 (PM Version)
2016-03-31
2016-03-29
MOVING2STAY! - STAYING2MOVE! - LISTENING2SAY! - PRAYING2PROVE! (BEING-STILL@WORK&WORKING@BEING-STILL)
Moving to Pray-er (Jesus early morning, Mark 1: 30-35?)
Praying to Move (Jesus early morning, then later that day. Mark 1: 30-35?)
being "a Stayer" e.g. "A long obedience in the same direction" by Peterson. James 1:19-27
Mary and Martha (Luke 10) & see Poem "My Model"
ANOTHER step in the same direction...
http://appallinglife.blogspot.com.au/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=1
Praying to Move (Jesus early morning, then later that day. Mark 1: 30-35?)
being "a Stayer" e.g. "A long obedience in the same direction" by Peterson. James 1:19-27
Mary and Martha (Luke 10) & see Poem "My Model"
ANOTHER step in the same direction...
http://appallinglife.blogspot.com.au/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=1
2016-03-27
look up...
We fix our eyes on Jesus, the true champion and perfecter of our faith. Because of the joy awaiting Him, He endured the cross, disregarding its shame and is now sitting at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2 (PM Version)
Fix eyes on Jesus,
the true champion,
who also sees us,
takes our coaching on,
to perfect and grow
our living "seed faith".
Because of the joy
that's coming he'd wait;
he endured the cross,
& dispised its shame,
and is now the boss
(sits with what's 'is name)
at the strong right hand
side of God's own throne,
where he can command
or suggest his own...
...................................
HE HAS RISEN !!!!
Mathew 28:6 (PM Version)
...................................
He sure has risen!
Not just from Sheol
to Earth, he's chosen
by God over all
who is taking time
to set up his rule
of love, which we'll find
is the overall -
- the clothes to put on
when doing his work
so Christ, though spat on,
didn't run or shirk
from the quite hard bit,
he gave his best shot,
trusted God, to wit:
God gave him the lot!
GOD's the one who "rose"
him up, made him boss,
he's the one he chose
to lead all of us.
And I vote with God,
I think that his "Christ",
should be where he stood
when Stephen's sacrificed.
He (that's Yeshua)
's risen to the top
of might & power.
Wonders never stop!
Fix eyes on Jesus,
the true champion,
who also sees us,
takes our coaching on,
to perfect and grow
our living "seed faith".
Because of the joy
that's coming he'd wait;
he endured the cross,
& dispised its shame,
and is now the boss
(sits with what's 'is name)
at the strong right hand
side of God's own throne,
where he can command
or suggest his own...
...................................
HE HAS RISEN !!!!
Mathew 28:6 (PM Version)
...................................
He sure has risen!
Not just from Sheol
to Earth, he's chosen
by God over all
who is taking time
to set up his rule
of love, which we'll find
is the overall -
- the clothes to put on
when doing his work
so Christ, though spat on,
didn't run or shirk
from the quite hard bit,
he gave his best shot,
trusted God, to wit:
God gave him the lot!
GOD's the one who "rose"
him up, made him boss,
he's the one he chose
to lead all of us.
And I vote with God,
I think that his "Christ",
should be where he stood
when Stephen's sacrificed.
He (that's Yeshua)
's risen to the top
of might & power.
Wonders never stop!
2016-03-25
he receives the offering of one as they're Abel...
"I will not drink of the fruit of the vine till I drink it anew in my Father's kingdom" (PW's approximation of what Jesus said at the last supper c.f. Mk14:25; Lk22:18 Matt26:29)
Can you drink the cup I must drink? (Jesus, to James & John after they asked to be 2nd & 3rd in Command in his new Kingdom - Mark 10)
Jesus commanded Peter, “Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?” (John 18:11 NIV http://bible.com/111/jhn.18.11)
Abba (Father), all things are possible for you: please take this cup from me; but more than my desire, my deepest desire is to see your desires fulfilled. (Mark 15)
When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said " IT IS FINISHED" Then He bowed His head and released His spirit. John 19:30 (PM Version)
.............................................................
When Jesus had received
the cup of sour wine,
which someone who "believed"
got for him this time...
(Did they hope to relieve
a dying man's thirst?
Or prolong suffering?
Hope it was the first!
- a cup of cold water?
The best they could do.
Jesus ain't caught up
in rules, he takes into
himself this offering,
like Abel's was received,
took what was proffering
(because they believed?).
So he backs up any
real open goodness.
Like his Father when he
received his son's present-
-that was when he let his
son's deepest wish come true;
He did not forget Son's
words, so followed through
with the plan that was the
most creative, to birth
many children, worthy,
loved, to bring to New Earth.
He said: ... (can you hear it?)
Then He bowed His head
and released His spirit.
Like Rachel, he was dead.
The "Son of Suffering"
was renamed "Son of Joy".
No way of buffering
the acid, to employ
an easy way to build
such houses as he does.
His house's walls are filled
with living stones - that's us!
Can you drink the cup I must drink? (Jesus, to James & John after they asked to be 2nd & 3rd in Command in his new Kingdom - Mark 10)
Jesus commanded Peter, “Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?” (John 18:11 NIV http://bible.com/111/jhn.18.11)
Abba (Father), all things are possible for you: please take this cup from me; but more than my desire, my deepest desire is to see your desires fulfilled. (Mark 15)
When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said " IT IS FINISHED" Then He bowed His head and released His spirit. John 19:30 (PM Version)
.............................................................
When Jesus had received
the cup of sour wine,
which someone who "believed"
got for him this time...
(Did they hope to relieve
a dying man's thirst?
Or prolong suffering?
Hope it was the first!
- a cup of cold water?
The best they could do.
Jesus ain't caught up
in rules, he takes into
himself this offering,
like Abel's was received,
took what was proffering
(because they believed?).
So he backs up any
real open goodness.
Like his Father when he
received his son's present-
-that was when he let his
son's deepest wish come true;
He did not forget Son's
words, so followed through
with the plan that was the
most creative, to birth
many children, worthy,
loved, to bring to New Earth.
He said: ... (can you hear it?)
Then He bowed His head
and released His spirit.
Like Rachel, he was dead.
The "Son of Suffering"
was renamed "Son of Joy".
No way of buffering
the acid, to employ
an easy way to build
such houses as he does.
His house's walls are filled
with living stones - that's us!
2016-03-24
...done for me.
Let all that I am praise The Lord, may I never forget all that He has done for me. Psalm 103:2
If God cares so wonderfully for the flowers that are here today and gone tomorrow, won't he more surely care for me? Matthew 6:30 - (PM Version)
He is full of colour.
We are glad to live
near him. Duller
life he can not
give. Well, I suppose
he might, if that is what
he thought best - with highs & lows.
That’ll do! Nailed it!
Oh, what an express-express-ion - at EASe-
-TER; life looks a mess!
PW & Tim Watson.
2016-03-10
A mate, like me, is struggling...
Just thought I would touch base, all good. Still a bit panicked and anxious, but it is helping to have people around. I'm struggling with ...
Thank you God for your provision
of good things that have come our way:
food and drink, feeling and vision,
and guts that will digest unpaid.
Hearing the world round about,
is amazing for connecting.
Our memory helps work things out,
and learn (to be self-correcting).
Our whole body, is so useful,
thank you for it God our Father,
capacity to be choose-ful,
is a good gift that we'd rather
not do without... until we stop
and re'lize they're all in balance:
unconscious sleep's a gift on top
of exercise & conscious choice
we need them both nor can one drop;
this kind of in & out rhythm,
is more complex than we can cop
easily, this ecosystem
keeps things of this world in balance,
and takes a while to recognize.
In this world we're given talents,
use them gratefully for the prize.
Things of character and values
aren't in this same balancing act
I've heard, and right now I'll tell yous
the Way, Life, Truth is more than Fact.
The Way is not just a clear path.
It turns out when I look at him
who led the way on our behalf,
who is "our way", our way's not dim.
The Life of the Ages, he brought
in coming himself to this place
independant of food and wat-
-er, air and movement, in his face.
His grace, and kindness overcome,
with Trueness to his world and folk.
His Kind 'v Truth gets off his bum,
and acts, he is the True-est bloke!
And we will be too, if he's true,
for he has taken us on as
his own "sons", as he did then too,
to make us like himself. What plans!
Panic-ed, anxious, struggling people!
How on Earth will he do all this?
Eyes set on him; and then heap all
our worries on him, make them his.
Though it starts on this Earth, it don't
finish here, there's a new model
coming down the line and it won't
be on it's own, He said God'll
make all things new! - and He's the first,
then new Heavens, and a new Earth,
and somehow with those, too, will burst
bodies for all borne with new birth!
Thank you God for your provision
of good things that have come our way:
food and drink, feeling and vision,
and guts that will digest unpaid.
Hearing the world round about,
is amazing for connecting.
Our memory helps work things out,
and learn (to be self-correcting).
Our whole body, is so useful,
thank you for it God our Father,
capacity to be choose-ful,
is a good gift that we'd rather
not do without... until we stop
and re'lize they're all in balance:
unconscious sleep's a gift on top
of exercise & conscious choice
we need them both nor can one drop;
this kind of in & out rhythm,
is more complex than we can cop
easily, this ecosystem
keeps things of this world in balance,
and takes a while to recognize.
In this world we're given talents,
use them gratefully for the prize.
Things of character and values
aren't in this same balancing act
I've heard, and right now I'll tell yous
the Way, Life, Truth is more than Fact.
The Way is not just a clear path.
It turns out when I look at him
who led the way on our behalf,
who is "our way", our way's not dim.
The Life of the Ages, he brought
in coming himself to this place
independant of food and wat-
-er, air and movement, in his face.
His grace, and kindness overcome,
with Trueness to his world and folk.
His Kind 'v Truth gets off his bum,
and acts, he is the True-est bloke!
And we will be too, if he's true,
for he has taken us on as
his own "sons", as he did then too,
to make us like himself. What plans!
Panic-ed, anxious, struggling people!
How on Earth will he do all this?
Eyes set on him; and then heap all
our worries on him, make them his.
Though it starts on this Earth, it don't
finish here, there's a new model
coming down the line and it won't
be on it's own, He said God'll
make all things new! - and He's the first,
then new Heavens, and a new Earth,
and somehow with those, too, will burst
bodies for all borne with new birth!
2016-03-08
Lord I look up to you.. (Ps 123)
May God, the source of our hope fill you with joy and peace as you trust in Him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13 PM Version)
Lord you are my shield and my glory. You are the one that holds my head high. (Psalm 3:3 PM Version)
Lord you are my shield and my glory.
You are the one that holds my head high.
Though we've almost sealed such a story -
of love that embolds enough to die,
to our own old life, with it's small god's,
to whom we bow down - yet still "control",
like an alco's wife - life is quite odd,
we smile 'stead of frown, yet grows no "soul"..
for all our small gods aren't big enough
(can't look after self, let alone us)
or they are at odds with our own stuff
trying to keep their "wealth"; but such fuss!
Yet in your story you said we're gods,
since to us you're "Dad", we are your kids;
YOU are our glory, when your head nods
as you look you add, you lift our heads!
Lord you are my shield and my glory. You are the one that holds my head high. (Psalm 3:3 PM Version)
Lord you are my shield and my glory.
You are the one that holds my head high.
Though we've almost sealed such a story -
of love that embolds enough to die,
to our own old life, with it's small god's,
to whom we bow down - yet still "control",
like an alco's wife - life is quite odd,
we smile 'stead of frown, yet grows no "soul"..
for all our small gods aren't big enough
(can't look after self, let alone us)
or they are at odds with our own stuff
trying to keep their "wealth"; but such fuss!
Yet in your story you said we're gods,
since to us you're "Dad", we are your kids;
YOU are our glory, when your head nods
as you look you add, you lift our heads!
2016-03-03
Farming friend messages me you'll see; ... then I try a little poa tree
Even when the fig trees do
not flower, and there are no grapes to harvest, even though the olive
crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren because it has not
rained and the cattle and sheep die in the fields, Yet I will rejoice
in the Lord! I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
Habakkuk 3:17-18 (PM Version)
I will croon with my
creator
when all his good gifts
come to me,
but, am I really a traitor
if friendship’s just
what I receive?
2016-02-29
All the rest is in faith, in hope, in love. So Ultimate reality is personal, it has a face; the truth, the life, the way.
My soul finds rest in God alone; He is my hope. God is my rock and my
salvation; He is my fortress, I will not be shaken. Psalm 62: 5-6 (PM
Version)
When my soul says "Yes" t'
God, it finds it's rest;
even if "Yes" to
hard work that's to do.
Better, showed Jesus
(the one who frees us),
to suffer and "die",
working with God's high
purposes; than "live"
the alternative.
He, himself is my
hope, & love, & life,
my defence as well
from my living hell.
Not my accuser,
far from my "user";
my life's very dim
if not done with him!
Those who think like "tax",
and law can't relax.
He came from above,
with his new way- LOVE.
Or some say it's Grace,
'n his scarred healing face.
Whatever you say,
He is still my way.
Whatever I feel
his truth is more real.
When my soul says "Yes" t'
God, it finds it's rest;
even if "Yes" to
hard work that's to do.
Better, showed Jesus
(the one who frees us),
to suffer and "die",
working with God's high
purposes; than "live"
the alternative.
He, himself is my
hope, & love, & life,
my defence as well
from my living hell.
Not my accuser,
far from my "user";
my life's very dim
if not done with him!
Those who think like "tax",
and law can't relax.
He came from above,
with his new way- LOVE.
Or some say it's Grace,
'n his scarred healing face.
Whatever you say,
He is still my way.
Whatever I feel
his truth is more real.
2016-02-28
C/S EXECUTIVE LEADERS OVER US
and you take our burdens,
don't let that work smother
your life; when your hurtin'
keep running to Jesus,
the living Cornerstone,
who unlike the Caesars,
has "a Father's heart" shown
both "to him", & "from him"
so he could be "Father"
to who depends on him.
There's none whom we'd rather!
2016-02-27
How am I?
I am still incredibly looked after.
There are other explanations in terms of power, controll, and self-interest, all of which I reject as coming from truncated world-views, too puny & simplistic (incomplete & uncreative) to be taken seriously let alone joyfully.?
I think of, & see/picture the beautiful gifts of family, friendship, love, prayer, time, conversation, beauty, connection, as best explained by the presence of redeeming love in the world. This breaking down, falling apart, temporary, cursed (because it's gods gave themselves to live under the curse of sin) world; but also the nascent, groaning, in the womb-about-to-be-born, world of God's dreaming...
Redeeming Love, present in it all, "with us".
Redeeming Love, the present in it all, "with us".
Emmanuel,
Hallelujah!
Marana'tha!
Amen+!
+the last 4 words are words taken directly from Hebrew or Aramaic, they mean respectively something like: "God is with us", "praise to Yahweh", "please come Lord!", "That's it!/So be it./Yes!"
2016-02-26
Another Year
Mandy-Pandy's getting old,
might I be so straight & bold
as to say, on this birthday-
nice or not, it's here to stay..
..Many-Pandy's getting young.
Do U think I am quite gung-
-ho, to bring this very thing,
to our conversationing?
4 she grows in graciousness
every day she lives to bless
neighbours, friends & patients 2,
not to mention "Family Zoo";
grows more like a little child
who is living free & wild;
(not a despot, self-centred;)
weeping/glad, still undeterred.
I'm glad you are my sister.
U remind me of Lister(*).
Many things invisible
act like they're invincible..
..yet are not, & quickly fall
when their "cover's blown" to all,
and the love U've shown will be
what is needed to set free,..
..to disprove purposelessness
and to help us all confess
we see in Ur thoughtfulness
more than power & cash can guess.
26Feb2012
*Joseph Lister, who (while being made fun of by the medical
fraternity) found and used antiseptic to kill the invisible "germs"
he postulated (at first from Pasteur's reckoning, but after a while from his
own corroborating evidence as well)
2016-02-25
FOLLOWING THE LEADER ...
I’m thinking of Ben Johnston,
of his growth as a leader.
“You've been carry-ing on son,
as I left you - a feeder
of my sheep, and a carer
of my lambs, as I have done”;
imagine Christ’s words (rarer
than what he’d like, to his sons),
spoken to this Johnston Braa.
To me it just seems so right
when I think of that Benoit*;
speaking careful, listening bright.
And thinking too of Jesus,
and his way of leadership -
quite different to the Caesars’
whose “absolute power” he then flipped.
Not “power” like Caesar had had,
yet he had authority;
to serve, or speak, - a true Dad,
who’d give his life to set free
those who other-wise would be
slaves, he then called them his friends.
God, for Ben, our prayer’s that he
take simi’lar risks, and that Ben’s
creativity grows rife,
being the son of his dad,
c’municating through his life
that he is “Creator” ’s lad.
* pronounced Ben-waar
Feb 2016AD, Orange, NSW.
2016-02-21
Listening...Glistening at length; .... .... Celebrating...agravating strength!
I praise the LORD with my whole heart, I thank Him for the good things he does for me. He has forgiven all my sins and healed all my diseases. He rescued me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies. He fills my life with good things.Psalms 103:1-5 (PM Version)
The Lord does not ignore me when
I am suffering, when I have afflictions and needs. He does not hide His face.
He listens to my cry for help. Psalms 22:24 ( PM Version)
He's good, and I sing!
Some things are learnt best
through pain & suff'ring.
He won't let the test
though, go for longer
than can be borne with
his help that's stronger.
It's not just a myth
that he uses tests
as discipline trains
and hardens, with rests,
to prepare who reigns,
or will, when time comes
to seek what is good
(not just sit on bums)
and true, as one should,
and then to enact
and follow on through,
not ignore the fact
it takes work to do.
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