Dear All of Us,
Joe Cerone was retired,
but far from "retiring."
He was fun to be with.
When I'd ask Joe how he was
he'd often quip,
"Given my age and income,
pretty good!!"
Actually, beyond age and income,
there are a host of the
GIVEN
in how we are,
slender sleek, of ample proportions,
garrulous plus, tight-lipped,
sober serious, loose as a goose,
artsy, practical plain
a rare bird, garden variety,
nurd, naughty or nice,
all colorations of skin
and sorts of soul,
God Gifted
like stars seen
of a night clear,
all sizings of
physique and personality
from
diminutive gentle to
vigorous robust,
"Let's!!!" to "Let's wait!!"
from
"How long do I have
to stay at this party?"
to
"I'm good til dawn
and then let's go out
for breakfast!!",
and endlessly on.
THE GIVEN
of the
GIVENS
is that we
ARE
A total and pure
Given
We didn't create ourselves.
We can't sustain ourselves in being.
Fame, fortune, a pricy psychologist,
hearty health insurance,
a plump portfolio and like givens
can't hold us in existence.
Life
is
GIFT
Life is participation
in
What Is
in
Ex - IS - tence
Actuality
Being
the
Reality
we call
Good
name
God
experience as
LOVE ITSELF
We are a birthing,
a personalizing
of that
Love
We are an emanation,
a pulsation of God,
The Energy of the Universe
We are a radiation of
Reality Itself
unique in intensity.
We are a
GIVEN
Dynamic and Creative
in ways rivaling
that clear stary night
A gift to be
GIVEN
In the spirit and amplifying
the words of l Peter 4:10,
"The gift you have been given,
give as a gift,"
that gift is us
GIVEN
in relationships supportive
and generous to a fecundity.
We give as we are,
with our array of the gifts to be
GIVEN
Those relationships are
with individuals,
- spouse/partner, family,
friend, neighbor, enemy
- the needful of any sort or strip,
people, place, animals, earth,
air, waterways
- with groups such as
the marginalized
poor and powerless,
the lonely,
shunted elderly,
deprived and endangered children,
victims of poverty, war, discrimination
and their cause cancer capitalism,
the different and disabled,
our spiritual community.
Whatever our unique gifts
we are gifted to be
GIVEN
Not giving,
turning in to self
and off to other
blocks the
Creative Flow of Energy
distorts
Cosmic Existence
ruptures
Reality
voids
Love
Hurts Like Hell
Is Hell
Makes It Hell For Others.
No need to get wasted there!
Hey!
Good, Very Good News
"It's Gospel"!
We are
God Given
and
One with God
We give
What a WOW!!
It's a
GIVEN
******
We had a delightful
"Given"
this past week with
first time visitors from
Mali
and
The British Virgin Islands.
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Here's to
God Given
Given To Be Given
Love to all,
John Frank
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