Go (into all the world)… make disciples (of all the nations, not just the people of God)… (teaching them to obey every bit of what the Christ of God has commanded us to do, baptizing them into the very nature of God), & knowing (in practice) that I am with you in it.*
Oh help us God, please by your spirit here
to hear (as Jesus said we'd need to do)
your word to us of processes that clear-
ly grow your life on Earth to reflect you,
and your creative love that will not leave
your children "from above" to just be “dead”,
unconscious of your care & hope to cleave
through dire times to all that you have said...
about a time when we could walk again
along with you, in evenings and nights,
& days of work, you'd still be like a hen
for all your chicks to run to in their frights...
and terrors that can overtake at times
of ignorance, and darkness to our eyes,
when we can’t see, yet can imagine lines
or outlines of a bougie man who sighs.
We trust your spirit to give us not just
the words to say to do the job he gave
us to do here on Earth, to feed from bust
as midwife then advises to behave
in training and in helping babes to thrive,
by backing up their parents in their job,
and sometimes just to help them to survive
by feeding milk, or help their spoonfulls lob
into their mouths, or clean their hygiene up,
or help them to join play-groups that are on.
And sometimes just the friendship that erupts
as we all mind the business of God’s Son.
* ‘Jesus, undeterred, went right ahead and gave his charge: “God authorized and commanded me to commission you: Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. I’ll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age.”’ (Matt 28:18-20)
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