easy awe
how frightened should we be of God
to know the power
that
nothing could hold against
so that a weapon of deception
is
the only choice
for devils
since nothing material
if owned
could
stand a chance as in pitching
God’s own
against
God’s own
and yet a God of love
who
waits for choosing
maybe
by still water
or in the troughs of war
or
by the bedside
when
the sickness is bad
or
with the victims of the drought
that
civil conflicts caused
or
because dry seasons happen
anyway
and that is power
too
and so to hate or love
or
frustrate the faith
for
everything that’s giving and that’s taking
God
who seems to have chosen for God
an invisible place
from which to offer presence
and so
the paradox of that
for faith
truth in the trees
or at
the hilltop where the sun has danced
and
thousands choose it is
the bright and
even painful
show
of God
show for
real
and for them proof enough to choose
and
now
for the rest
only with evidence unseen
and filtered through a dark glass
of our insight
at
best
and what we shall believe
while love even to forestall power
awaits
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taste and see
taste anything
and
in the savor
or simply end of hunger
to know
that God is good
having
made all things for food and
us
that in relationship we might exist
and
when there is enough
to thrive
and not
to discount farming
or
cooking or anything by way of preparation
even the stance we take
the setting
for
a meal
a snack
a drink of water
what
have you
throughout everything to keep us alive
there is goodness
from
a good God
who
first made us that way
and
though fallen
we live and consume
and are nourished
then
to rise
and if it’s bread and wine
let
that be enough
to start
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Psalm 34:8
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the pope’s concert
one channel carries
the global
event
it is a Christian event
that might keep certain folk from watching
and
especially
to hear
it is a global event that narrow sight
would turn and lead
away
those
whose walls pretended to be gold
and
thoroughness of wealth
also control
pretense to earthly power
and
should the devils weep except
to
know there is
such withholding by such willful ignorance
with great effort
never
to confront
the good
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first actions
light and dark
become day and night
the spirit
moves the water
and
the land
yet maybe water first
because there is
so much of it
then the peaks allowed to rise
to bring the valleys
plains
and
deserts along
toward the unnamed sky
and all of this now
wait
for habitation and then
the incident
of naming
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Monday acceptably
really now
what shall I say
today
a Monday in the USA and half
of elsewhere
or
where it might be yesterday
tomorrow
how many groan maybe
in silence
while
having risen or having gotten up and then
mentally increasing toward awake
maybe those who have fewer days until
the start of the school
year
which is mathematic
but also in an
attitude
and newly
Monday-aware that
that
freedom’s breath shall soon be constrained
in time lengths of periods
and
days for several months
and seaons for nearly all who live in this
reality
are changing soon
and the air in that
received
and breathed
and
so
last of vacation thoughts regardless
if we leave
to think this way a while
longer
with all the reminders from the sales
and
how they have us think ahead
if desired or not to have to
do so
and it’s Monday after Sunday
so for many
by now
there has been church
or temple or daily
visitations
that might have a feel for the culture
while for many the experience was an exercise
in
dullness
helping along our own or
were we changed at
all
and who knows
maybe a few
though it’s God of Monday
too
and so keep close to offer inhalation
or further inspiration to
see
to the chores with maybe happier thoughts
and words
for
being a new day
of days
as well
and better for the attitude
more so
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A
my friend is diagnosed
it’s only
at the start
and
there are other things
like how I breathe in
infestation
or who is killing whom in Iran
Palestine
Ukraine
and
Yemen
to mention all the volatility in so many lands
that
do not
take the grace to get along
but he is
sick
and it’s a creeping kind
that works its way
well
through nervous
systems
I suppose
and should take years
and
then take the time of living and
and of waiting
here
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“Halogen filled blown glass forming a brilliant structure which was installed at the Cheekwood Gallery in Nashville, TN”
if only these lines
words and beats to know someone
gathered here and now
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made with Canon 5d Mark III and loved analog lens, Leica APO Macro Elmarit-R 2.8 100mm (year: 1993)
[“loved lens”]
In the image is a rendering in English of a sentence that is a litmus for typing skill and speed: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
love your enemies and pray for those who persecute
we pray out of need
out of
love
and that love extends by prayer
and then by action
to our enemies
even
the active persecutors
and we are not asked to take part in s and m
but
to go for healthy if serving
and sacrificial
and that seems a mystery
I guess
for which the Bible offers precedent
even
as paradox
but there is need
and
there is
prayer
yes
for thanksgiving and other
reasons
too
prayer for the friendly people
also
thus for each and every
as
needs press
we ask
then
move in the world
say
as wise as
serpents
and as gentle as doves
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Matthew 5:44, 10:16, also Psalm 65:3, Proverbs 24:17 (and, you know, verses and passages around)
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maybe I drafted this because I need reminding not of the suggestion but direction
each message
we are called
might be in silence
yet
by some sense
spoken to
a message left for each
to open
when we and life
are
ready
only enough
and not
to wait ‘til all conditions
perfections done
but rather to find
by
whatever state
the sender waiting
on
the other side
of interference or inhibition
by a wall
or
door
the dark glass
or our own orneriness
to find
the sener
waiting
for
the chance for either side
to open
and
to greet and
to try
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