Wednesday, November 8, 2023

TAKE HEART


Dear All of Us,

Thanks for reading this!

It's far from fluffy lite.

Please stick with it.

Please read all of it.

Not because 

it's so darn good, 

but because 

it's so darn critical.

Please read all of this. 

Slowly.

Pray it.

Ponder it.

Give it wide welcome,

head and heart.

Hopefully then

  TAKE HEART


We're in trouble.

Let's face it.

Civilization and planet 

are in peril.

They may not make it - 

literally, actually.

It's terribly possible

or worse.

That's why I ask us all 

to stick with this,

to read all of it

and that with 

the eyes of the soul.


We are using up 

the resourses of six planets.

We only have one,

and we are abusing it to death.

World leaders just aren't and can't, 

except to hasten hell on earth.

The few have the most.

The most don't have enough.

Few are in communion with 

The Common Good 

as value and guide.

Religion has lost it's soul.

Technology has gotten 

ahead of us and the lead 

is a spin out, trip up, pile on.

Standing on clouds of 

media and political illusions

has replaced a firm footing, 

             one

       Reality Based,

    and so sadly much

     just falls through

          dashed in 

delusional disappointment.


Consciously, unconsciously,

or in blinded denial, 

we nevertheless 

wrestle with all this and

in that wrestling 

so many of us 

are pinned in fear,

losing heart and match.

Can we ever 

TAKE HEART

hoping to win?


We sure can.

God is bedrock Reality.

That's where/how 

we take our stand.

That's where/how

we place our hope.    

 "GOD IS LOVE"

        and

    loves us 

  passionately.

That love energy 

powers victory.

That love energy 

winds to a win

no matter 

the opposition.


Life is a wrestling match.

It calls for a "flat out", full 

             GO

We move and maneuver, 

position for good.

We just don't give up

           Ever

We let the deep down of us, 

the presence and power 

of God Love that is our core,

surge through us.

That goes for us as individuals 

and us as a community.

We do all we can to be 

           REAL

            in 

    attitude, value, 

   effort and action

     based in the

        REALITY

          and 

       ENERGY

        that is  

     GOD LOVE

     We stretch 

     We struggle 

          for 

        justice.

Our game plan is 

The Common Good.

We let play through us

the surge of creation

and redeeming recreation.

We're not only going to survive,

we are going to thrive.

All around us may fall apart.

         We won't.


The demons of Empire

raping reality,

putting civilization 

and planet in peril

will not prevail.

We will because

  love wins.

They are no match 

for our team.

No matter 

how tough,

how sinister,

how perverse, 

the push and power 

of Empire's evil,

we will take it to the mat

pin it, 

pin it flat 

for the count and out.

     TAKE HEART


Thanks for reading all this.

          ******


  To help us  

  TAKE HEART 

we do and share

a deep listen to this 

 POWER PROMISE

   "But in all these things

    we overwhelmingly conquer

    through Him who loved us." 

We spend slow time, 

We center listen to this

  POWER PROMISE

that nothing and no one 

will separate us from 

The Love God has for us. 

       We have 

  God's Word on it.

         We 

   TAKE HEART


         "So, what do you think?

          With God on our side like this,

          how can we lose?

          If God didn't hesitate 

          to put everything on the line for us, 

          embracing our condition 

          and exposing himself to the worst 

          by sending his own Son, 

          is there anything else 

          he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us? 

          And who would dare tangle with God 

          by messing with one of God's chosen? 

          Who would dare even to point a finger?  

          The One who died for us 

          - who was raised to life for us! - 

          is in the presence of God 

          at this very moment sticking up for us. 

          Do you think anyone is going to be able 

          to drive a wedge between us 

          and Christ's love for us? 

          There is no way! 

          Not trouble, not hard times, 

          not hatred, not hunger, 

          not homelessness, 

          not bullying threats, 

          not hunger, 

          not backstabbing, 

          not even the worst sins 

          listed in Scripture: 

              They kill us in cold blood 

              because they hate you.

              We're sitting ducks, 

              they pick us off one by one.

          None of this fazes us 

          because Jesus loves us. 

          I'm absolutely convinced 

          that nothing - 

          nothing living or dead, 

          angelic or demonic, 

          today or tomorrow, 

          high or low, 

          thinkable or unthinkable - 

          absolutely nothing can get 

          between us and God's love 

          because of the way that 

          Jesus our Master embraced us."

                 Romans 8: 31-39

                   The Message

                         We

                   TAKE HEART 

                 and we share it.

                         ******

                   frankly speaking

              spirituality for the street

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Let us hold in love and prayer

the peoples of our global family

in the grip and pain of war.


Looking forward to 

our gathering here 

next week.

Love to all

John Frank

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