Wednesday, March 9, 2022

PARTY

 

Dear All of Us,

It's party time.

It's "the" party of parties,

a block buster,

one that simply won't quit.

It just gets to be

more and more 

wildly wonderful.

Surprise and delight

trip over each other.

It blows through limits.

It's a blast.

Best bests best.

It's come as we are

but we won't stay that way.

It's a breakout 

and so will we.

It's in full swing and

swing to the heights

will we.

It had a fantastic get go,

and "go" it does

and so will we,

with no slow nor stop. 

This

       Party 

is being thrown by 

the host of most, 

of all that 

      "Is"

      God

    and it's 

 sung danced

       as 

  Creation


God is good, 

goodness itself,

too good

to keep to itself

   Creation


God is energy, 

dynamism, 

those of a lover

that pulsates 

with passion,

pouring out 

ecstatically

  Creation


God is Love,

Love without Limit,

Love that opens 

and expands,

that gives and gives, 

Love that 

comes and comes

     Creation


The poet genius 

of Genesis

paints a picture of 

Love having a ball, 

Love having 

a heaven of a time,

getting carried away 

giving away 

with no interest in 

slowing down

or backing off

   Creation


God is Being Itself

pouring forth beings

beyond name and number,

us among them.

       Creation


All that is

is God 

being this 

   and  

being that,

Creation


We are invited 

     to the 

     Party

The Love Blast,

that is creation

and to be dynamic 

in helping God have a

     God Time

     

    God created human beings. 

    he created them godlike,

    Reflecting God's nature.

    He created them 

    male and female.

    God blessed them:

   "Prosper! Reproduce! 

    Fill Earth! 

    Take charge!

     Genesis 1:27-28

       The Message

        translation


After a while God outdid 

God's creative self.

The name is Jesus,

Emmanual,

God with us

and that in a

divinely human way.

Jesus ups 

the tempo of the      

       Party

He introduces the  

"Kin-Domain of God"

and gets us into 

the swing of things.

Paul puts it like this:

   For we are co-workers 

   in God's service.

  1 Corinthians 3:9


We are invited 

to help God throw the

        Party 

What a thrill.

We get to be 

gifted and to gift,

to be given 

and to give.


During this season 

of Lent,

this "lent-ening"

of Spring light,

we do well 

to see afresh

all as All,

all as one in 

The One,

quarks to constellations,

elements to babies 

to Beethoven,

most especially 

our fellow partygoers

however they 

dress and dance 

     Creation

     There are 

no strangers at this 

        Party


Sadly, though, there are 

      party poppers 

      trying to crash, 

 trash and disrupt God's 

              Party

   They are pretty 

     sick and sad.

     They try to 

   destroy, deface

God's beautiful creation.

They violate 

people and place,

truth and goodness.

The only answer 

to them 

and their evil 

is for us to be

a bonfire of Divine Love

to their frozen hardness.

Just because 

there are killjoys

messing things up 

we don't call off the

       Party

  We rev it up.

  We live it up.


If we get caught

in the media mesh and mess,

we'll be tricked into

fearing that

the foul ups of 

the party poopers

are the main show in town.

          Not so.

Creation is in full swing.

We're busy partying.

We see wonders

through microscopes

and telescopes, 

we hear tones of diversity

harmonizing in joyous unison,

we hug a tree and each other,

we touch with care the earth 

and breathe in 

the currents of vigor,

we feast on art and science,

we lift the low and lost,

we roll out justice,

we are drawn into mystery.

We get married and 

co-create kids and family.

We paint pictures.

We do our day job with focus.

We drive responsibly.

We tutor and we mentor.

We gather in real community.

We have people over for dinner.

We play ball and we sing.

We share liberally.

We live love because

       God is love

       1 John4:8


Lent is a great opportunity 

        to press 

       "refresh"

      

     God looked over everything

     he made; it was good, 

     so very good.

          Genesis 1:31

         The Message

     

  And that was just for starters.

           Party On!

          John Frank

            ******


           Here at 

      frankly speaking

we gather from many lands,

live in many distinct cultures,

are as varied as the stars.

All are welcome in our diversity,

one in the joyous unity that is God.


             frankly speaking

   spirituality for the street 

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Hey,

let's have such 

a rip roaring

good time partying

that everyone will want in.

            ******



 

    









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