“Is Body Life O’er Arching?” (Hebrews 11:1)

So is that it, or not quite yet?
That “Body-life” which we don’t get,
So “Weak, and sick, and dying” see
Just like Paul said we soon would be?

Is that what my commitment is –
Not in the sense of pomp and fizz,
But rather, “Given assent thereto”
Quite humbly, with no great to-do?

I get the feeling it’s not right,
But, like the dawn at end of night,
First streaks give thought, “It’s there, I see;
At least, I think some light there be!”

For hope makes sight reality –
“Things hoped for” part of faith to be
Substantiating all the day
A better path on Kingdom’s way.

So Lord, help me to laugh this time,
If here I play with things not mine;
Please open heart, and hands, and feet,
To walk the walk when truth I see.

Thank you Lord for this.

*****

“Stu, you’re correct – that ‘Jock Forbes’ pix
In church with box – exporting it –
Then asking, ‘What shape are they in,
As we ship kids to life begin?’

You had the part that body-life
Was what was needed in the fight;
For twenty years, then twenty more
I’ve helped you see the larger score –

“’Bout gifts suppressed, forbidden, spooked;
’Bout allergies between the groups;
’Bout ‘left’ and ‘right’ to ‘angle’ change
(‘Diagonal’ when rearranged).

“’Bout gold you mine, or gold you buy;
’Bout Kingdom-layer betwixt the sky
And earth, as place where one can stand
To sort things out above the sand.

“’Bout Scripture, prayer, activity –
Three ways I talk to folks like thee;
’Bout social club the church is now
(Small social space they’re still allowed).

“’Bout ways folks learn, First Nations too;
’Bout shut-down-towns, as few can do
What farmers did long years ago,
Despite new concepts they each know.

“So Stu, it’s far more complex than
A simple concept ’bout a man
With body-parts made up of folk
With different gifts, of which Paul spoke.

“I’ve shown you right and left brain ways;
How poetry records your days
In ways quite porous, so in time
It still makes sense, so insight’s fine.

“I’ve given novels for the folks,
As way to hear the words I spoke
Three ways to you – now spin your yarns,
And keep My kids from future harms.”

Lord, thoughts from me pour out through pen,
Computer, microphone, and then,
Through pix – another version thus
Can readers and non-readers touch.

For concepts which enable life,
Bring dawn at last to end each night;
“Stu, share My thoughts whichever way
You wish, it matters not – I say.”

Thanks Lord for this.

Note: Stu’s task within the larger scene – to make Christ’s insights clear and accessible to all [so kids are exported out of here with life-insights]. @ September 24, 2016.

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