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
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Hey,
let's have such
a rip roaring
good time partying
that everyone will want in.
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