2022-08-26

That multi-coloured garment…

That multi-coloured garment



I want to be loved. And I want to say

"I need to be so loved", which may be true.

For surely I'm in need of you each day,

& all that comes from you, comes with love true.


Please teach me, grow me up, to learn to love,

and please give me your wisdom to express

the love that can respond to yours above

all other happenings, which will address


another's needs, and pass on (with foresight),

the love you've given me to pass around

about this spot you've put me in tonight

with you as never-ending source, we're bound


to fill up all this Universe with love°. 

Well ev'ry person who (potentially)

appreciates it, lets it fill and cov-

er up, as love just loves to do, when free.


It's like love is all colour, we're the "eyes".

Love's colours are just seen by eyes who've got

those "cones" within them, so to realize;

to "see", "distinguish", "pass on" the whole lot


of colour that surrounds us where we've fared.

It might still be quite true that "sparing rods,

will spoil the children" but if cones are spared

all colour clues are then lost on such bods,


'less there's redundancies built in for such

a happening, such folk can't oversee

the purposes in life where colours touch

a sky, a person, even you and me.




* scientists have discovered that our eyes (& the eyes of dogs & horses) can see in low light situations through the use of little cells in the retina of the  eyes called "rods", & our eyes (& the eyes of other animals, like bees) can see the colours that exist because of little cells in the retina of the eyes called "cones". Most humans have both rods and cones.


° His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature. 2 Pet 1:3‭-‬4 NRSV-CI




2022-08-18

Take heart… (as given…)

I know a man in christ, who was at his wits' end with his woman.. When I put myself in his shoes... this is what came out...


Oh God, how can I love this woman in

a way such that she feels your thought and care,

and is herself warmed up to feminin

felicities, quite glad her man is there,


and even that he is quite close, and more.

I will confess that I feel less in touch.

And much more at a loss than I've before.

But this is where I still my trembling-much,


and do the next bit that I'm meant to do

with strength and creativity from you,

and hesed* faithfulness to carry through

on how a loving husband would be true.


So please give me your wisdom where I lack.

Please help me see as much as will help her,

to know she is still loved. That word's not tacked

on, just to get connections I'd prefer.


I thank you God that you are faithful still,

and even when things might mean something's killed

you're bigger than our biggest problem, filled

with more than we could ever need°. You will


continue on, as love can never cease*.

As you keep dreaming - all this world's inside

you as our dream worlds inside us release

those characters into our dreams that hide


less solid thought, consistency, design,

capacity for characters to choose,

and have the consequences right in line

with where each character's the child of who's


the most creative, and the most in love.

It's you I would come to, to let your dove

teach me, and throw me out. For you may shove,

me where you'd like for me to go. Above


all beings, and the giver of good gifts.

The one who is the liver, and the fact

that IS, the shallom river. One who lifts

all lowly, who'd be holy in each act.


And from you, we all come, and learn to love,

I trust you where my biggest need, above

all others, is "Embody you in shove-

-el-ing what's really good° - by your dear dove."



(Audio of poem/song; stored on Google Drive)


hesed is the Hebrew word often translated into english as  "loving kindness", or "faithful love" or "covenant love", "mercy", or simply "love", in often repeated refrains of psalms like "The hesed of YHWH endures forever" (Ps 107, 118, 136) or as it is translated into the Greek of the Christian New Testament (agape), (1 Cor 13, esp verse 8) "Love.. never ceases" or ".. never fails".


° His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature. 2 Pet 1:3‭-‬4 NRSV-CI




2022-08-16

Need (wisdom,) strength  or love?



One thing God has spoken to the world,

and thus he spoke to me (my ears were tuned):

all grace, or riches, pow'r or strength is furled

within, and comes out of, who owns it.  Whom


d'ya think that might be? I know it is God.

So if I need the grace, capacity, 

or pow'r or strength responding to his nod,

to do a job or task, he'll give it me.


A second thing  I've heard come from de Boss,

that hesed, (steadfast, loyal love) is owned

by who can demonstrate it, with no loss,

and loves to give it to who's asked and groaned


to live it out upon God's Earth down here,

who can not bear to live by other means.

God's eyes are looking for such one. He'll cheer!

And keep deliv'ring HESED, not just memes.


And God-bank will make all repayments. Yet,

you know the thing that's very special there? 

He pays with int'rest, in the way you set,

with sloppy stinginess, or gen'rous care.


The int'rest is on what we do and say,

our stinginess or generosity.

We even get to set the kind of pay-

ment we receive, he made us "gods", you see.


What little you enact within this world

in words or deeds, is being put away

in past (that's seen & known) and so it's curled

up safely, untill ev'ry int'rest day.


God calculates and gives int'rest in time

& in eternity as well, you know.

With God each millisecond is sublime, 

but also each millenia's the go!


Our chance to pack some real riches away

in place that's safe, and is securely locked,

with int'rest payed and calculated dai-

ly, ev'ry day the sun's rays here are docked.




God said to me once and for all, “All the strength and power you need flows from me!” And again I heard it clearly said, “All the loyal-love you need is found in me!” And it’s true that you repay people for what they do. 

Psalms 62:11‭-‬12 see TPT(+ Hebrew & other versions)



2022-08-15

Slow to anger...

 



So how to not become an "angry man"?

Entitled, and appearing quite above

another one with weaknesses I can

not see, or will not see in me - from love.


I think the answer might be in those last

two words within the sentence just above.

Why might I feel ashamed of failings past,

yet overlook so many? Maybe love?


Yeshua's bro's/ ambassadors said stuff

about what love does anywhere, it's wings;

will cover over…, put up with enough

to make a womb like this world work to bring


us in the end to "term", maturity, 

at least of sorts, enough to then get "born",

and somehow then the "coming out" will free

us into bigger lives, a bright new morn.


So parents trusting in a bigger pro-

cess, that of growing, and maturing life,

with love for little tykes who do not go

straight there, but often take a bit of time,


are often not just jumping on each problem,

they're putting up with most, and choosing which

to follow through, at which time, for which "goblin",

and trusting in creative love to pitch


in, and help out when they are at their wits' 

end, and then there are all the other bits

'bout praying for an enemy (& twits?).

I think love saves us from "getting the * * its".




2022-08-14

a chicken named "PECKY"


When chickens gain their pecking order by

the way they pick on others who're diff'rent.

They model life of humans who are ( sigh )

just living from their animalic bent.


Well, is it true that smartphones are "just phones"?

I'm int'rested to hear what you would say?

For specially folk who only want "the bones":

to ring up, and be rung; know not to play


with smart-phones ".. 'coz there's much more to them now!"

They know the difference, they just want a phone.

That's why a man I know has no  friends, how

much easier to be with dog & bone?


So how do we take on and use our selves?

And use well all that we are made to do?

If phone is made for 5G, but we shelve

some 2G sim within it, well, it's true


it might still ring. But if we won't recharge

it ev'ry now and then, it won't work much.

It's meant to be connected to a large-

er network, so that you can keep in touch…


And if we treat it like a lesser thing,

sometimes the smart parts fuddle things a bit,

and if they're not updated and growing

they'll stop you in your tracks. You'll feel a git.


So live your life at level of a chook,

by instincts and desires, do your thing.

But otherwise I'd say to have a look

at Human 2 point oh, and start to sing!







OLD TO NEW WORLD VIEW



Despite that science tells us "This world is

not what it seems on outside, to the feel,

with layers upon layers forming things",

I still believe that our ol' world is real.


Our scientific story tells us that

despite what we all see here (think we "know"),

there's layers of "community" which mat

together, and which interleave.. (quite so):《1


Inside, within each body, making up

the living ones, are individu'l "cells",

or living creatures that can be corrupt-

ed, or combined to make a host where dwells


the multicelled "community" we see

that's planted right before us "on" (or "in")

our ground of being. Even you and me.

And these can be disrupted or can win!


The ways that these communities would seize

things 'round about to aid their tiny parts,

to work together: shelter, feed, and ease

their life, to bring a thriving from their starts,


are called in this Our world "to feed", & "clothe

and shelter", self or fam'ly, other lives.

The old words from Our world that covered both

are "love", & then there's "peace"- which meant "life thrives".


But smaller yet, each body that exists,

of rocks, or gasses, animals or plants;

(and irrespective of "life" tagged to its

existence as an entity, per chance..)


is made of smaller atoms, molecules,

or other things that kind of are like "seas".

But smaller yet (these aren't just words of fools)

are forces "circling", balancing with ease.


Where either particles or waves "impart"

existence to those higher levels too.

But here we haven't even made a start

on bigger things, like Galaxies and U-


ni-verse, or other categ'ries rehearsed,

like Supernova, Nebulae, and Giants,

Dwarves, and other stars that shoot and burst,

to cook up compounds, elements and ions


from which all of the rest can start to "be".

Invisible dimensions in this way

we start to understand, and maybe "see"

within our "mind's eye" - as they used to say.


But still our story makes more sense, or less

of all dimensions we've encountered here,

since we were born - to order and to mess,

with this ol' world. - And this is where I cheer


myself as I move on, and others too.

The world we "started" in, that let us learn

about dimensions and these worlds that you

have just now been reminded of, don't spearn!


The story that's apparent: God made this

whole world with more dimensions than you'd poke

at with a stick, does not seem so remiss

and starts to look less like it was a joke!


"The best is yet to come", as AA found

in fact, through living in this re-al world.

And there's a higher power hanging round

to see if we would reach out and be curled


within the love of biggest Dad, or Mum,

and let the Great Creator's fam-il-y

look after us and grow us, and then some..

towards more of a nature that is free


to love back, as we have ourselves been loved.

And that's why most religions in this world

admire, and think good-life was surely gloved

within the life, that we have mostly hurled


our insults at, and blamed him for our faults

and misdemeanours, laziness, and such.

It's him I would commend to you. Us dolts,

we killed the model human God loved much -


the second Adarm (and would kill his Eve,

that God brings from him while he's "not around").

In jealousy and ignorance, we'd weave

a net to catch them yet, like beasts been found


and named. So if you ask me to I'll tell

the story of the glory of God "THERE",

who loves his kids, and wants them to do well,

take on creative love, and learn to share.




《1》 physically enact this by interleaving the fingers from each hand with those of the other