allowance
who is allowed
who gives
and
who may receive
what do we talk about
possession
salvation
and
who owns
salvation if anyone should own
God owns it
I
suppose
manages the process
certainly
provides all parts of God
needed
creates everything
places
us
then there’s a full beginning
affirming rest as
well
then somehow a serpent is allowed
if we intertwine the stories
then we know
of
the rebellion and the war in heaven
with casualties if not killed
yet fallen
then to
take it out on us
and
we fall as well
not
killed and yet spiritually
as good as gone until the parts of God
come
to the Earth
to teach
and offer to save
one part creates
the other comes and then
the other
the third part closer than ever
indwelling
in fact
by
invitation
strange invitation that both must offer
and accept
then
all things work together
that
are good
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Romans 8
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
(KJV)
photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash
(x = space)
x
x
trinitarian
x
nothing shall separate us
from the love of God
which is a promise
x
so why do we feel differently
why do we shirk
why does doubt work so well
x
we can say that it’s a sin
that it’s a fallen world
well enough
x
but faith and love are so attractive
and so active
why back away
x
there is the world
the match of us that says
none of it’s real
x
that real is flesh and metal
while evidence of faith and love
has neither
x
invisibility
dark glass
land of shadows
x
these are what we have for proof
and means of proof
all of which is unconvincing
x
peace passing understanding
but it’s understanding
that we need
x
and will not get it
unadulterated
by the hard means of the world
x
a world we feel
a world we have
and must live in for now
x
and for an age
after the Anthropocene
and afterward
x
who knows
and that is it
who knows
x
promises as metaphors
streets of transparent gold
advocacy always in our favor
x
should we choose
and we must choose
from lack of evidence
x
we choose
and we do
and we believe
x
crops are promised
in our seasons
wonderful abstracts
x
turned real
and that is it
it’s all turned real
x
faith
hope
and love
x
a Celtic knot
tied and loose
three parts everywhere
x
God
Earth
and us
x
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x
nothing shall separate us from the love of God
romans 8:38-39
x
x
5,000 year-old triskelion on an orthostat at newgrange
by young shanahan – https://www.flickr.com/photos/youngshanahan/10644977574/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=110911537
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