2021-05-31

Yes YOU are! (his modus operandi)


  • Go for love!

  • Only use technology for the purposes of love. 

  • Expect technology to challenge humanity when it can, & even to crush humanity, when it is able. That's the way it works.

  • Equally, expect that love itself will always bring it's own energy, or make a "way out", that you can stand.



Take the story in,

understand it well

(so you will begin -

with heaven, not with hell). 

Know the charact-ers,

and the twisting plot,

when the feeling's terse,

and when it is not.


Know the ways and means,

curses, blessings too,

what appears, and seems,

what is real & true.

Choose what makes for friends,

choose what makes for foe,

when allegiance ends,

what things go to show.


Know the story world, 

like you know your own,

what flags are unfurled,

what seed has been sown?

Thus you'll know quite well

both the new and old.

See you only tell

what builds, and en-folds.


So look up yourself,

look out at God's world.

Look at folk, not wealth,

love them where they're curled.

Let God's breath then speak

words from him to them.

'Specially when you're weak,

touch his garment's hem.




2020-07-19

view o' the world o' Yeshua

His "take" on all creation and this world

is that it is God's gift to us, a tent,

a place where we can grow, though we're  still curled

like foetuses within its walls, and bent.


And of all that he owns, because he thought

it up, and then designed, and made it be,

there is one part that he calls out, he's sought

to not determine, but to make it free


like him, to be good, not as services

and goods are good - designed and made quite well;

but like him, source himself of all that is,

to see more good come out of chaos-hell.


And we're not just his garden plants he likes,

or animals or pets that he might train,

he sees us as his very own small tykes,

so there might be gods on God's earth again.


But not like gods of mortal myth per-chance,

but baby gods who're like the God of gods,

and his own children, who'll learn how to dance

and take the care that's needed with all bods


to now display on this ol' Earth again

the nature of a Power that is love.

That does not shrink from suffering to gain

more comfort for the self, it's like a dove


that harries crows from chicks to, move them on,

give chicks a chance to grow up with their mum.

The story isn't over, hasn't gone.

But that was part of why Jesus had come.




2020-05-31

An Intro to both Old and 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): 《


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 the 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 words from Our world that covered both

were "love", which moves t'ward "peace", which means life thrives.


But smaller yet, each body that exists,

of rocks, or trees, and animals or plants;

that's whether we would posit "life" 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 the 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 kinds and types rehearsed.

Of 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 "minds 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 world 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, or 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, you dolts,

you 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 un-ashamed I'll tell to you

his story, of the glory of this god

who loves the very children of the "who"

creates together places we'll have trod!




2020-04-05

to know as we are known

... For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love. 1Cor.13:6-13  ASV



For now we see, as though through a mirror
[a mirror made of polished metal plate,
well bronze that’s beaten - sil-ver was dearer -
by hammers; smiths would try to make it straight]!

When tarnish then corrodes with green or black,
the mirrors would show “darkly” when you looked.
The world within the mirror would be stacked
with many things unclear-er than if took

to eye-balling the people or the world
around you, without mirror in-between.
For who knows Love (that’s not just has been told
about it) are like children who’ve been weaned*:

they look to see their mother not just for
what they can get from her - like their next feed,
but love’s awakened something that’s much more;
they recognize her face, not just their need.

When starting to know her, not just the facts
about her, her child’s starting to be real,
to know some of her secret thoughts, & acts,
her motives and commitments, how she feels…

This childlike knowledge (diff’rent from “child-ish”),
the kind of knowledge God has now of us,
is more concerned with knowing someone's wish,
& recognizing them - without much fuss.

But “darkly” also meant  in parable,
enigma, puzzle, figure, mystery.
Though followers of Christ seem gullible,
the crucial, central figure here is HE.



* Psalm 101131

mushroom here?

mushroom there?

She waltzed into the room the other day
and said that as she came on down the Drive
from town, about a block or so away
just sitting on the footpath was a hive

of fly-by-nighters that had landed there
within their fairy circle on the ground.
She told me just to spread the news, and stare
at what I'd do. To see if I would bound

to pick them up, and savour what they gave
quite freely, just before someone might mow
them off into oblivion, to save
them from their missing being tasted. So

I though a better opp-or-tune-ity
might not be floating round about for long.
I said "D'ya want to come along with me?"
She didn't baulk, but jumped in "Smile, and song!"

And when we got there, as an "exercise",
and saw a one, and then another too.
Both big and small & ev'ry other size.
It made me start to wonder what I do

on ev'ry day these past four years, and now
when I am travelling right along this street,
and then tomorrow, when there's been a shower,
will I pick them to join us when we meet?

So when we got a bucket-full that day
I felt like Bev had loaned her eyes to me.
Her smiling news then watched me lead the way,
her methods opened, made much room to be.



 Half of the day's pickings:


















A prod to see how well I see things.... Do I have much room in my mind, to allow me to see different things to what I expect? Do I have much room in my life to be able to follow the thread and learn to act and see differently? Oh God we (well I) need your help to keep growing.


2020-03-31

(Peter’s version of ) God's Word to the "Gentile" household of a Roman Centurion ... Yeshua - the anointed one!




So Petros then began to speak aloud:
“I re-a-lize now that this God quite true-
ly treats each group of people (as his crowd) 
the same. For all who fe-ar him and do

what's right are then acceptable to him,
no matter groups that they're belonging to.
You know God's word that he sent out to win
the people of Israel, proclaiming News.

Good News of peace through one good leader, Lord
of all, who's God's appointed / chosen / Christ /
anointed, and he's been named - (Salvador
which means "who saves", or "Jesus" will suffice!)

You must already know, (yourselves not daft),
that word that worked its way from Galilee
& through all of Judea, that is aft-
-er John, proclaimed the washing that must be:

how God anointed Jesus Nazarene,
with Holy Spirit and with God's own pow'r,
and ev'rywhere he went then, he has been
both doing good & healing, ev'ry hour,

all folk oppressed by devilish designs
because  the God was "with him" constantly,
and all the places that he went in time,
and he would trust God past biology.

We know that biological life needs
stuff streaming in, like water, food, and air,
compared to God's own Life which is the seed
of which this life's a metaphore we share.

So God was with him, God's Life there himself, 
that's living in his body as a tent,
although it didn't show up in great wealth
(except to those who saw it where he went).

We saw it with our eyes and here declare
these things were done in all the regions he
went with the Jews, Jer-u-sa-lem (place where
they chose his fruit:  "Death - hanging on a tree")

They made their choice with him. But God did too,
undoing death, as stories said he would
at end of our Book One, before Book Two,
to start a new creation with a good

man in the centre garden, a new birth!
-  but this time one who'll (when he hears the sound
of God his Father walking on the earth
he'll choose to walk with him, he'll follow 'round

about where God is going (- to his kids
espesh'ly those in trouble, or in need)
and work in partnership with God, eyelids
wide open, and then scatter out good seed.

This is the one God raised up on the third
day after, and made him to then appear
(not to all people, as a human herd)
but to his chosen witnesses (who’d hear

and see, and then report, so truth is said)
to us who after, ate and drank with him
- that’s since his rising from among the dead.
And he instructed us, not just a whim,

to then proclaim to people, testify-
ing fully that he is the very Head, 
who’s been appointed by the God on High -
"High Judge of all", both living and the dead!

To him the prophets all bear witness, that
forgiveness of all human sin’s achieved
through trusting in his living name. How zat!
Humanity is free once it’s received.



34 Ἀνοίξας δὲ Πέτρος τὸ στόμα εἶπεν· ἐπ’ ἀληθείας καταλαμβάνομαι ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν προσωπολήμπτης ὁ θεός, 35ἀλλ’ ἐν παντὶ ἔθνει ὁ φοβούμενος αὐτὸν καὶ ἐργαζόμενος δικαιοσύνην δεκτὸς αὐτῷ ἐστιν. 36  τὸν λόγον [ὃν] ἀπέστειλεν τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἰσραὴλ εὐαγγελιζόμενος εἰρήνην διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, οὗτός ἐστιν πάντων κύριος, 37ὑμεῖς οἴδατε τὸ γενόμενον ῥῆμα καθ’ ὅλης τῆς Ἰουδαίας, ἀρξάμενος ἀπὸ τῆς Γαλιλαίας μετὰ τὸ βάπτισμα ὃ ἐκήρυξεν Ἰωάννης, 38Ἰησοῦν τὸν ἀπὸ Ναζαρέθ, ὡς ἔχρισεν αὐτὸν ὁ θεὸς πνεύματι ἁγίῳ καὶ δυνάμει, ὃς διῆλθεν εὐεργετῶν καὶ ἰώμενος πάντας τοὺς καταδυναστευομένους ὑπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου, ὅτι ὁ θεὸς ἦν μετ’ αὐτοῦ. 39καὶ ἡμεῖς μάρτυρες πάντων ὧν ἐποίησεν ἔν τε τῇ χώρᾳ τῶν Ἰουδαίων καὶ [ἐν] Ἰερουσαλήμ. ὃν καὶ ἀνεῖλαν κρεμάσαντες ἐπὶ ξύλου, 40τοῦτον ὁ θεὸς ἤγειρεν [ἐν] τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὸν ἐμφανῆ γενέσθαι, 41οὐ παντὶ τῷ λαῷ, ἀλλὰ μάρτυσιν τοῖς προκεχειροτονημένοις ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ, ἡμῖν, οἵτινες συνεφάγομεν καὶ συνεπίομεν αὐτῷ μετὰ τὸ ἀναστῆναι αὐτὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν· 42καὶ παρήγγειλεν ἡμῖν κηρύξαι τῷ λαῷ καὶ διαμαρτύρασθαι ὅτι οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ ὡρισμένος ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ κριτὴς ζώντων καὶ νεκρῶν. 43τούτῳ πάντες οἱ προφῆται μαρτυροῦσιν ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν λαβεῖν διὰ τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ πάντα τὸν πιστεύοντα εἰς αὐτόν. Acts 10:34-43 NA28


So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. Now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to tell us.’ 
Then Peter began to speak: ‘I now realise how true it is that God does not show favouritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached – how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.  ‘We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross, but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen – by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.’ While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles. For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said, ‘Surely no-one can stand in the way of their being baptised with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.’ So he ordered that they be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.  Acts 10:33‭-‬48 NIVUK


Peter began to speak: “I now realize that it is true that God treats everyone on the same basis. Those who fear him and do what is right are acceptable to him, no matter what race they belong to. You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, proclaiming the Good News of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. You know of the great event that took place throughout the land of Israel, beginning in Galilee after John preached his message of baptism. You know about Jesus of Nazareth and how God poured out on him the Holy Spirit and power. He went everywhere, doing good and healing all who were under the power of the Devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses of everything that he did in the land of Israel and in Jerusalem. Then they put him to death by nailing him to a cross. But God raised him from death three days later and caused him to appear, not to everyone, but only to the witnesses that God had already chosen, that is, to us who ate and drank with him after he rose from death. And he commanded us to preach the gospel to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God has appointed judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets spoke about him, saying that all who believe in him will have their sins forgiven through the power of his name.”  While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit came down on all those who were listening to his message. The Jewish believers who had come from Joppa with Peter were amazed that God had poured out his gift of the Holy Spirit on the Gentiles also. For they heard them speaking in strange tongues and praising God's greatness. Peter spoke up: “These people have received the Holy Spirit, just as we also did. Can anyone, then, stop them from being baptized with water?” So he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay with them for a few days. Acts 10:33-‬48 GNTD