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What a beautiful way
to use the gospels to
lead our spirits to pray,
to interchange with you!
What's this
amazing thought?
It's not from this
young pup,
it comes from what
He wrought!
His glorious
"looking up"[1]. .
He who was rich,
became
poor, that we
might become
richer than words
can name.
I know that that
seems dumb.
Here is the Way - Love's course;
dain't hold it's
rights as "higher",
seeks to woo, not
to force
or "make", but to inspire.
Hence visions,
voices, dreams;
which could be
just madness.
Not all is what it
seems:
don't just run from
sadness,
grief, suffering,
and death;
we must embrace
this lot,
that Jesus life
& "breath"
be ours to stop
the rot
of "image-in"-ation,
beginning in this
life;
"on Earth, as
in Heaven",
to match him, as
his wife[2]!
[1] Some of the times when Jesus raised his
eyes up: as a Jew, maybe every time he prayed {e.g. at his baptism?, on the mount of Transfiguration
(where Luke tells us he prayed), & after the seventy(-two) returned (Luke10:21ff
)}, certainly in “prayer” before - feeding the 5,000 (Mk6:41), healing the deaf
mute (Mk 7:34), at Lazarus’ grave
(Jn11:41), praying personally to God for his glory & for us (Jn 17:1), maybe
in Gethsemane, or even on the cross, or to Zachaesus, before
inviting himself home to Zac’s house for a meal (Luke 19:5), inviting Philip to join in on “the problem of
the 5,000 hungry families”(Jn6:5), and in the Temple where he noted the Rich
people & the Widow giving gifts at the Temple (Lk 21:1).
[2] Thinking from the point of view of those
early apostles, not during the visit, but after it, realizing that they had
touched & eaten with “the very WORD (or “FORCE” in a STAR-WARS-ish way) of LIFE. “We beheld his glory, the Glory as of a
father’s only son, full of grace & truth…”. Their conclusion (reached from
the startling facts of his life, his prophecies, his power, his insight, and
the scriptures etc) that he was the Eternal WORD, THE Son of God, The Second
(Son of) Adam!- needing a wife, to not be alone, & the confidence that God
was indeed preparing one for him (with his own spirit in her). As Jesus
un-ashamedly spoke of himself as a bridegroom, now it has grown from the Jewish
conception of the people of God being seen as a bride of Yahweh, to the new
people of God being a bride for Yeshua, Yahweh’s Son. His DNA is to be taken,
and made to make a matching pair, so still bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh….
He is so big, so real, & so loving, that all of us (the x Billion humans who have lived, & will ever
live) are like the cells in a living being, a woman, & do not exhaust or
overpower, or over-love him. …