a song along the way today

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With twurgles, & then warbles, twitters, barks

(of crows), the other birds of diff'rent coat

sing little tunes, no kookaburra laughs

though some birds do harp on, with just one note.

They wake up and then start to sing forthwith

and we are able to let joy come in

as it invokes the more than‘s in these kith,

our kin sometimes help us to just begin.

I love the cool of wind, when there is sun

It makes me feel alive, and calls me on 

to come & play at work that has begun -

unbidden comes the stirings of a song.

The grasses and tall stragly bushes wave.

(as I put this, a tall one does a jig!)

like children who would call us to be brave..

to join in on a dance, or wear a wig.

When first i started, then i saw one part 

that they who sang did not do it as art

but that forgets the ecosystem’s heart 

where wiser, bolder, serve the ones less smart.

It's like the selfish gene always exists.

It's what is Left* until the Right* steps in. 

It's mantra is the power, it insists 

that list-en-ing to other ways is “sin”.

It's evidence and metaphors it hates

unless it can truncate what these words mean.

With birds, n’ flow-ers, grasses, there's a spate

of testimonies that can do live-stream.

Yes I can see i'm got - hook, sinker, line.

The hemisphere that’s Right - and sees the wholes,

(not holes - but it looks through them all the time),

holds our divine spark, not just Left-ish souls. 

Be careful that you strangle all the cries 

of beauty, and adventure, longing, come

to disquite all the “priestly words” of spies 

who seek pow’r, and control of you, like some.

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Prologue/ Footnote

 * In this composition the words Left (with a capital L) and Right (with a capital R) do not refer to a political spectrum, nor to a moral standard, so much as the mindset of the Left Hemisphere of the human brain (it's way of being, & modelling, & looking for power & control, within the world), and the mindset of the Right Hemisphere of the human brain, and it's approach to the world outside, and it's way of being, looking for connection & a place to belong within the world. (See the psychiatrist Ian McGilchrist’s books and YouTube vids)

Epilogue

It seems to me a bit more complex than a cursory look (by our Left Hemisphere’s Word oriented mindset) is able to appreciate, 

for the Right mindset relies on, and gives a real place to belong to the Left. It assigns it an appropriate part of the ecosystem it perceives, and will team with it. The Right is specialised in perceiving wholes outside (& inside) of me, it perceives relationships within the world. The Left, on the other hand doesn’t really deal with the world that is. It deals with parts of it that is can use within the virtual world that is has created within itself. So it models the world, and can run events through the model. past events to ascertain why certain things happened, and future possible events to predict what will probably happen. It can then serve by grasping, utilising, comidifying, & fabricating stuff in the world. A good pair. But when it does that to the right hemisphere or to other living creatures, it is out of place. So in my view (and the way we are mostly made confirms this), there is a “moral” spinoff here. The Right needs the Left to serve a bigger meaning and purpose, & the Left, needs to be not left alone, but to be “coming under”, and ser,ving the bigger purposes that the Right perceives. 

There are ramifications when this is taken to a societal or cultural level, or even a cosmic level.

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Draft three of audio, as I walk today:

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Mind.. what you think..(2)

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If we can almost do it, don't you think 

the God who made the universe might too..

Some story world where people on the brink 

make some decisions where they really choose.

And might the game creator also have

some options too to interface with those

who play the game and righty try to nav-

igate it's world, might s/he also have flows

of hints and special helps for those not skilled,

and sometimes take a character themselves,

to give them hints, and model what they willed

to do, but didn't have the skill, or health?

And lastly might an unskilled player not 

still choose to partner with their parent to ..

to play the game with everything they’ve got.

And parent will make choices what to do 

And how much skilll to use and when to let 

the character their child plays lose the game,

because of things the child might just forget -

to help them win at bigger things, not shame 

them (might be time for dinner, cleaning drain,,

or other things to help them grow up well).

And what if Mum or Dad made up the game?

The options don't diminish. Can you tell?

You see the ways the game creator might

help others to perceive a forward way

And influence their thoughts by day or night.

I'm won-der-ing about us, and YaHWeH.

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Mind ..what you think..(1)

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Newton: “(my job, in the scientific endeavour is simply) …thinking God’s thoughts after him..”

Einstein: “i want to know God’s thoughts - the rest are details”

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What’s this that’s come into my mind jest now? -

the thought of where our thoughts come from & go.

And whether God who made the world somehow 

would all my thoughts, desires, and mind just know?

And if this God; not “male” or “female” by 

our own conceptions, as a child might think;

but by that practice where the “male” would try 

to stand for male and female on the brink

of knowledge & connecting in the wild

with things unknown or diff’rent that process.

The God’s much bigger, & ‘tswe who’re styled

to be as male and female - God's likeness*.

And as such, male and female form a whole

that's meant to be the likeness here of God. 

Where each could learn to not see pow’r as sole-

-ly what wins out at end; for there’s a lot

that's given just by love - and it's not blind,

though sometimes it would choose to act that way,

for purposes that power cannot find 

it ever can quite see. It cannot say.

I’m wondering if that's a metaphor 

that's meant to lead us on to further ways

to partner up with what we're put here for,

and thus to learn the ways that love displays.

If thoughts are known to God, could we know his -

(as Newton and old Einstein had claimed)?

What tones and textures make us think that “This, 

is “his” voice.” As do sheep, & dogs we’ve named.

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*  “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ 27So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (‭Genesis 1:26-27 NIVUK‬)

Paul, an emissary of the Lord Christ to some  new followers of the Lord: “..for, ‘Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?’ But we have the mind of Christ. (‭1 Corinthians 2:16 NIVUK‬)

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You are my roosting place! My parent hen.

You wake me up each day and then again.

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Oh God, you are the essence of the good. 

All goods and services that ever had

a speck of goodness in them, truly could

be called the good's; and services “not bad”

that were for building up, and serving well,

are thereby sourced from you our very “Dad”.

A sadness is that we may bring a “hell”

into the world made good. So very sad

indeed, that God was “grieved in heart” himself.

A God, who did not baulk at bearing grief

sounds not to be a god who’s in good health.

But that is just our self serving “belief”

based on our own ideals, & not his way.

The scriptures here tell a report that’s short

& to the point, & this is what they say

that he was grieved in ways that we’d purport

as truly good, creative, true, and right.

But I could not myself have guessed at this.

This is what keeps a poet up at night.

The root and flow’r essential of goodness

would now bear grief, for us. He chose this free.

He calls us to come follow, and then go

with God to places he chooses to be.

And we would, like Pete grow, to not say “No!

I never knew this man”. (I’m glad he wept!

For Pete was us, there in that story, we

would, like him too have claimed much, but have slept.

I’m glad you helped that rooster count to three...

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Notes 

• . “And God saw that it was (very) good.” (7 times, in Gen 1)

• . This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.’ (‭Ecclesiastes 7:29 NIVUK‬)

• . “And God was grieved to his heart, that he had made the Adarm” (Gen 6)

• . It is in God’s essential nature to be unconstrained, except by himself and his word, i.e. to be able to choose.

• . In Christ we have now been made “partakers of the divine nature” (2Peter 1: 3-11)

• . Peter’s boast that even if all the others forsake Jesus; he never will.

• . Jesus’ prophecy, provoking Peter’s boast, and immediately after it, that they would all (including Peter) forsake him & fall away, and that Peter, far from never forsaking him, would three times deny knowing Jesus, then the rooster would crow (three times). 

• . The (4 fold) story of the events in the 4 tellings of the one gospel (commonly called “gospels”) “according to Matthew, according to Mark, according to Luke, according to John.

• . Compare Judas & Peter… then recall a sure saying: “‭If we have died with him, we will also live with him;  if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he will also deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful— he cannot deny himself. (2 Timothy 2:11-13 NRSVUE‬)

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Human Observation & Rationality finds its limits

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What amazing reading is that ancient Jewish wisdom book Qohelet (or Kohelet; often called Ecclesiastes in English translations). It is showing the ephemeral or virtual nature of the whole of life and what we call Reality, and kind of poking holes in the “human left brain hemisphere's” kind of way of seeing reality as gaining profit for the self and showing that way of living or approach to life, is too insubstantial and isn't actually founded on evidence… it's kind of a circular thing within its own rationality and an interesting kind of Eastern-mindset refutation to Western beaurocratic materialism -  wherever it shows itself - in the Christian church or out of it, in our business or commercial life & employment.

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A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil.” (‭Ecclesiastes 2:24 NIVUK‬).  

I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.  That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil – this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure for ever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him. … 

So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot.” ‭(Ecclesiastes 3:12-14, 22 NIVUK‬)

[18] This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labour under the sun during the few days of life God has given them – for this is their lot. [19] Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil – this is a gift of God. [20] They seldom reflect on the days of their life, because God keeps them occupied with gladness of heart. (‭Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 NIVUK‬)

This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.’ (‭Ecclesiastes 7:29 NIVUK‬)

[15] So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.

[17] then I saw all that God has done. No-one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no-one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it. (‭Ecclesiastes 8:15, 17 NIVUK‬) 

Human observation & rationality is not enough to comprehend human meaning & purpose, when our reference point is simply everything “under the sun”, or “this side of death”.

[7] Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do. [8] Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil. [9] Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this vaporous life that God has given you under the sun – all your vaporous days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labour under the sun. [10] Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom. (‭Ecclesiastes 9:7-10 ‬)

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born of the spirit?

 Airborne - Zephyr

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I feel a ruffle, hardly breeze.

Don't hear a shuffle but see trees 

that shiffle and do sway and bend 

and wave to me as though a friend,

Then sideways as I look ascance

I see some start to sway and dance 

and with a knowing nod per chance 

they beckon me to join entranced.

It's like they have a gnostic muse 

that helps them to take on the news 

that one day soon all human’s views 

will have the poetry to choose

to dance with trees; and every part 

the mountains, seas might make a start 

but we will soon add to that art 

and give a voice that's, not so smart 

as glorious, and good, and game.

When humans who do bear the name

of Lord Adarm, & Lady Eve,

who were to rule, to serve each leaf

& ev’ry living thing on Earth

it turns out if they have their birth

from heaven, then creative love

had plans that were quite far above

what first was spoken to them then.

The “How much more..?” saying, means when

all new humanity again

is sheltered by its mother hen…

The mountains and the hills will quake

in their excitement,  trees will shake

and dance & clap, stomp, whistle, hum,

and we will sing, and beat a drum

It’s hard to wait. I think I can.

I draw to state what woman, man,

or child can do when we will be

more like a babe, or like a tree

that’s moved by wind, and breeze as saith

ol’ Shakespeare who claimed “bated breath”

for someone who might conquer death

or cancer. So the good dreameth.

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