Dear All of Us,
Right off the top
I want to thank each and all
for letting me be with you
each week, sharing
what and as I can.
You are generous and
I am grateful.
So is my wife.
Writing this blog each week
keeps me off the street
and out of trouble.
My wife doesn't get phone calls
from the police anymore to
"Come get the little old man
with the walker
down at the park
trying to get teenagers
to let him play
tackle football with them!"
And to think the medical people say
the last thing to go is our hearing.
Hope not.
I'm holding out for
a robust sense of humor
right up to take off!!
In the mean,
make that "merry" time,
let's blog on.
So, remember way back when:
"Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake,
Baker's Man"?
Such fun action as kids
and we've all been busy
ever since making
a lot more than patty cakes.
We're genetically
MAKERS
It's in our soul's DNA.
It shines out early on
as making
paper dolls and paper planes,
moves on to
making the bed,
making friends,
making numbers and nouns
work out in school,
making it work at work,
making love,
making a family,
making things right
making poems, gardens,
music and art,
software and supper,
making church a community,
making the environment safer,
making peace.
More and continuously
MAKERS
The Genesis story tells
from whence all this originates.
Genesis pictures God as
MAKER
and having one heaven of
a good time at it, too!
God saw all that God had made
was really, really good,
was mighty pleased with it,
and then God took a day off.
Come Monday,
right back at it and
on a roll ever since.
Creation isn't a was.
Creation is an is.
Creation is a
right now always.
Creation is a flow,
an outpouring of
God Goodness.
The God Dynamic
is shared in elements,
animals, vegetables, minerals,
all that is,
earth dirt to star dust.
There is this progressive,
expansive surge to it.
So far we still don't know
the tiniest of its pulsations
nor the extent of its vastness.
Genesis reports God
creating us people
in the very image
and likeness of God
- a shared DNA -
and asking us to help guide
God Goodness evolving
creatively and endlessly.
So, what does that
look like where we live,
in our right now?
Well, it's vast, wonderful
and wide open.
Literally everything we do
is meant to be creative,
us in sync with
The Creator,
together as
MAKERS
A little add on to
the examples above -
God and us together,
creative busy:
- making soup
- making room for interruptions
- making space for differences
- making music, in the shower
or at church
- making well an item
or service at work
- making a garden
- making a conversation good
- making a visit to a lonely person
- making plans for a family vacation
- making up after a fight
- making the roads safe
by how we drive
- making the house commodious,
the yard a bright/right place
- making newcomers welcome
- making pesty paperwork
a zone for patience
(I betray a bias here!)
- making things as
just and kind as we can
- making The Common Good
our goal and benchmark
- making a party
- making childhood
safe, expansive, wondrous
- making an art of all we do,
doing it with God
I hope this little reflection
enthuses our hearts
and frees our spirits
to jump in with God,
Team Creators
Together
Happy Holy
MAKERS
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at the beginning of time,
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Marcel Proust
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We actually get in on
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Have a great week
at this holy work.
Love to all,
John Frank
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