"Make A Plan?"   [Module # 74] (Matthew 17:14-21; Mark 9:14-29; Luke 9:37-43)

The tendency for many folks
Is make a plan – but that’s a joke
If we’re not gifted in that way,
So stalled in life we often stay.

But here we find a different route –
Get orders straight – then, clear of doubt,
Live out what Christ desires of you;
As “this and that” you start to do.

One’s countenance will change as well –
Whole person’s walk and talk will tell;
Not just the shine on person’s face,
Whole life’s affected by such grace.

Ach! Now I see it, Lord my God,
That dropping Mamascatch – quite odd
Back in Keewatin days – I see
Was culture-based – for deep my needs.

One road led onwards to the next,
Then on the road to do my quest;
Now here it comes full circle ’round
To photo-resurrection ground.

Chris Orwig’s comments – artifacts
Of culture – weddings and such acts
Need thoughts renewed as pix you take –
From deeper life of thought partake.

Bob said, “Reluctance to take pix
Comes when two cultures’ worlds are mixed –
For Cree own countenance – their own
And others’ are like seed that’s sown.

So don’t abuse and steal their stuff;
Old Whitey has got quite enough;
So leave us as we are in Him
Go off and let your quest begin –

And maybe when all’s said and done,
And you your marathon have run,
You’ll see more clearly than before,
And find through that an open door.

Nee said when all is given back,
We find it different – there’s a lack
Of self aggrandizing – all partake
In photo-interchange we make.

Lord thanks for troubles you foresaw –
If I’d done photos in the law
Of land, but from outside of it,
The photo-work would just not fit.

It was not just the business part –
For other work, and even art
Stalled out before that wall of stone;
For Echoland was culture’s home.

Ironic – now I’m set apart;
I am released to make my art,
And then present it for exchange
With clients, as we’ve pre-arranged.

For now I see myself as free
To say my piece – Your words for me
Are guidance in my Spirit-walk
Which let your picture-stories talk.

But that’s all done through normal life,
Not over and against, but right
Here in the normal give and take
Across the boundaries cultures make.

“Authentic” has a cultured base –
All photos come from worker’s place
Of origin, and current stance,
If they His kingdom will advance.

Lord, like that ship, out from the fog,
As tug-boats pull – Your hand as God
Is seen in this direction new –
Cross-cultured photos – are my view.

Thanks Lord for this emerging scene,
Of TCK and where I’ve been
All folding under in this mix
Of work You’d like me do through pix.

Thanks Lord for this

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