Wednesday, November 1, 2023

SAINTS ALIVE


Dear All of Us,

shout out,

     for

 "SAINTS 

  ALIVE!!"

They sure are.

And they sure enliven.

Not perfectly 

nor completely

but quite really.

Aplenty and 

all about are these 

     Saints Alive 

        and

    Enlivening.


They have lots of holes 

in their person and living,

gaps that weaken 

the weave of 

self and society,

The Wholeness of Cration,

Of God Real Rightness.

Not letter perfect,

there's nothing close to

"Goody Two Shoes"

about them,

They miss fire and mess up.


Recognizing those holes, 

they also recognize 

and work to accept 

     the cleanup, 

     the lift up 

     the fix up 

      of God's 

Redeeming Recreation.

They jump in with God

to work, to weave whole 

the fabric of existence for

self, society, all Creation.


        Saints Alive

live in all sorts of settings.

       That's where 

    God meets them

          and they

         ENLIVEN 

          be that

     poverty, plenty, 

ordinary, extraordinary,

        healthy, ill,

   peaceful, conflicted.

They are shaded sexual

in a rainbow.

Some "heady" 

Some more "hearty"

Some urban, 

others suburban, 

town and country

Some progressive, 

some traditional.

It's all rather sacred.


    "Sancta" 

in Latin means

      holy

      whole

      sacred

Saints accept the sacred

    the flow of Good 

      we call God

    in and through 

      themselves.

    They go with it.

   It is their essence.

   It is their animation.

   It is their mission.


They partner, 

they parent, 

they are single, 

they drive trucks, 

they take care of children, 

they farm, 

they teach,

they are chefs and tour guides,

they manage media, 

they are EMT's,

they are retired.

They are...


Wherever they are,

whatever they do,

they weave whole,

fresh new or refreshed.

They do God 

in their place and way.

They mingle and merge 

lovingly, cooperatively, 

creatively, energetically

with all present in their now,

people, plants to planets

        All Creation 

   in their span of now.

           

       SAINTS ALIVE

          Live God

          God is Love

    Saints Alive Live Love


"Love never gives up.

 Love cares more for 

 others than for itself.

 Love doesn't want 

 what it does not have.

 Love doesn't strut,

 Doesn't have a swelled head,

 Doesn't force itself on others,

 Isn't always 'me first,'

 Doesn't fly off the handle,

 Doesn't keep score of 

 the sins of others,

 Doesn't revel 

 when others grovel,

 Takes pleasure in 

 the flowering of truth,

 Puts up with anything,

 Trusts God always,

 Always looks for the best,

 Never looks back,

 But keeps going to the end...

 Trust steadily in God, 

 hope unswervingly, 

 love extravagantly. 

 And the best of the three is 

              love."

1 Corinthians:13: 4-7 & 13

          The Message 


       SAINTS ALIVE

       They are you!

Happy All Saints Every Day

          ****** 

    We're a bunch of

    sinners and saints.

Wonderful that together here

     we learn and live  

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         Love Life

   See you next week

        God Bless,

       John Frank

        ******