WHAT'S UP DOC?

      Friends

Posting this week

is a few days early.

Glad we can be 

     together.

Dear All Of Us,

Battle Creek, MI.

  1947 - 1951

        My 

place and span 

seven to eleven

   years old.

   

It was ritual.

Every Saturday: 

Children's Matinee

featuring six

Loony Tunes

cartoons

at the Bijou Theater

      and then

Confession

at St. Phillip's Church

featuring too much 

about not much at all.

      In each,

different takes a la

 Buggs Bunny's

"What's Up Doc?"

All these years and life later

           it's still,

     "What's Up Doc?"

      We're all trying 

        to figure out

         what's up 

            and 

        is our time 

            as a 

 a people and a planet

      just about up. 

     

Eliezer Yudkowsky 

       and

Nate Soaves 

give us just

two to three 

years to go.

          

          In

   Loony Tunes

        lingo,

"That's All Folks!"

     The End

Not even close to 

cartoon funny!

The authors

    script 

 their take 

on what will 

take us out: 

    If Anyone Builds It, 

   Everyone Dies:

  Why Superhuman AI

  Would Kill Us All

   September 2025

     Little, Brown 

    and Company

Their thinking is that 

up to now 

human beings 

have built AI.

Superhuman AI

once built, 

grows itself.

In time 

it will grow 

to reason 

on its own

that we have 

failed and fouled

planet and people 

so much, so badly

that we are 

unfit to continue 

and need 

to be eliminated.

Not exactly 

bedtime reading.

For all that and 

too much more, 

we dear people 

run the risk of being 

frightened out of our 

        NOW

of been frozen in fear

that Superhuman AI

    Rogue Rulers 

   climate change

   nuclear weapons

   and allied threats

     will do us in,

     take us out 

      in these 

         our

  Looney Times.

Should we curl up

     and quit,

forget growing 

   that 401 K,

settle for being 

dull depressed,

    shelve 

the spiritual life?

   NO WAY!!

The end of things

has been predicted 

   so endlessly 

   many times 

throughout history 

        that 

The Guinness Book 

    of Records 

 doesn't even try 

  to count them

       and 

we're still here

Looney Tuning 

     Along

    

Who knows.

Maybe Trump will go 

full time fund raising for 

Habitat for Humanity.

Putin may enter an

Orthodox monastery.

Zuckerberg may 

shutter the shop and

teach Kindergarten.

XI might regularly host a 

Chinese cooking segment

on the Oprah Show,

Netanyahu's grandson 

may marry a lovely

Palestinian young woman

and they will live 

in the new country of

peaceful, prosperous

          Pal Is

There may be a world-wide 

conversion to Love Living.

Is such jest or just maybe?

At this point 

we just don't know

so we just keep on 

   keeping on.

We remember that 

a coward dies 

a thousand deaths,

a brave person dies once.

That goes for us 

individually and collectively.

So we go 

full torque together 

living and loving 

Full Gospel, 

Kingdom of God.

Whatever happens 

or doesn't happen,

God has more than 

our backs,

holds us 

close in 

and strong 

here and now.

What Paul says 

in a different setting 

is a perfect fit for ours.

In 2 Corinthians 6:1-3

    The Message

he tells us how to be 

and what to do

in these distressed 

times and ways:

"Companions, 

as we are in 

this work 

with you, 

we beg you, 

please 

don't squander 

one bit of the 

marvelous life 

God has given us.

God reminds us,

    I heard you call

    in the nick of time;

    The day you needed me, 

    I was there to help.

Well, now is the 

right time to listen,

the day to be helped. 

Don't put it off;

don't frustrate God's work

by showing up late, 

throwing a question mark

over everything we're doing.

Our work as God's servants

gets validated - or not -

in the details.

People are watching us

as we stay at our posts,

alertly, unswervingly...

in hard times, tough times..."

 - stay steady, 

   keep at it

   in our 

   right now, 

   right here.

- don't cave,

  quit or bail.

    

I can't remember 

the saint's name.

     At this age 

     and condition

     it's a good day 

         when 

    I can remember 

    my own name!! :)

    And now back to 

    the saint.

When he was asked 

what he would do if

he knew he would 

die tomorrow.

He said he would

get up,

say his prayers,

make the bed,

do the dishes and 

go to work.

- stay steady,

  keep at it 

  in the

  right now, 

  right here

  as we live

 Kingdom Real.

In head and heart 

we heed Jesus: 

"Be alert for you 

 do not know 

 the day 

 nor the hour."

Matthew 25:13

- heads up

- but don't 

  fuss and figure

- live now

  well full

 

    Don't waste 

        NOW

        on a 

      feared 

     might be 

      

If we have 

ten minutes left

there's God Good 

to be and do.

We don't time 

the clock.

We live 

The Life.

It's satanic sad

that danger and fear 

tempt despair,

distract vigorous 

spiritual living.

We're not hung out to dry, 

swinging in the breeze:

"Be strong and courageous. 

 Do not fear or be

 in dread of them, 

 for it is the Lord your God 

 who goes with you. 

 He will not leave you 

 or forsake you."

 Deuteronomy 31:6

Here or there,

now and later,

God holds

us intimate,

lively in Love.

Whatever time 

remains on

the clock 

we play it out,

vigorous in 

The Spirit.

"For God did not 

give us a spirit of fear, 

but of power and

love and discipline."

2 Timothy1:7

  The Spirit  

     and

 that spirit 

power us positive 

in negative times, 

propel us 

full throttle into

timeless perfection.

  As Galatians 2:20 

         has it, 

          now   

         when 

         then

       whatever

           

 "I live now not I but 

  Christ lives in me."

     We're teamed 

       vigorous  

        in life

      together

     right here,

        right

       NOW

     on into

timeless perfection.

           

          That's 

    WHAT'S UP DOC

        ******

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      God Bless

     John Frank

"God is our refuge and strength,

a very present help in trouble.

Therefore we will not fear

though the earth gives way,

though the mountains be moved 

into the heart of the sea,

though its waters roar and foam,

though the mountains tremble 

at its swelling."

         Psalm 55:22

                      frankly speaking

                  spirituality for the street

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                             ******

      

     

INFLUENCER

       Friends

       Posting 

 a few days early.

       Love

   John Frank

    ******

Dear All of Us,

So, I have this friend.

He's in sales.

He is so personable

and persuasive

that he could sell you 

the same socks that

you have had on 

for the last month

and you'd think 

it was a bargain!

I don't even come in 

a distant second.

    So what!

That's not going 

to tie me down

or slow me up.

I'm passionate 

      and 

I'm out to be 

persuasive. 

Be advised! 

In the parlance 

of the day 

I aim to be an

 INFLUENCER

They are the folks 

who want to effect

what flows through 

our lifestyle/value veins

        (L) in = into

        (L) fluere = to flow

              "Influence"

   MY Qualifications

       to be an

    INFLUENCER

Well, they are 

modest but strong.

It's more than obvious that

I come in a negative 10 in the

glitz and glamor department.

I've never been accused

of being particularly handsome

or overly bright.

No photo shoots for me, 

not even in those 

penny arcade booths

on the boardwalk -

and thank God for it!

No podcasts, publicists,

social media command.

    

     What I do have 

            is 

       PASSION

     and that with

       The One

infinitely passionate 

       about us 

         and 

    all Creation.

    My passion 

     is red hot.

    It fires me

    to hopefully

   influence us all 

     away from 

        and 

      toward.

   AWAY FROM

We and Creation

are under siege.

It's so pervasive 

that too many of us

are ceasing to notice the

    Erosion of Real,

   much less resist it.

    It degrades us,

    violates Nature 

         and 

    trashes God.

        We are being 

        brain washed, 

        soul stalled,

        even stolen

             by 

    The Monarchs of

Money and Manipulation

           They 

     highly influence

        to control

     governments, 

     entertainments,

     athletics,

     education,

     medicine,

     marketing,

     politics,

     insurance,

     advertising,

     economics,

    style and fashion,

 the what's and how's

      of society,

 "The done thing"

 that is undoing us.

 They force worship

        of the

     False God

of their devising,

demand dedication 

of self and society

      to their 

 Kewpie Doll God

        of  

Stuff and Fluff

   for their 

profit and power 

      and 

our domination.

They set the stage

for contemporary life

         and 

 demand we dance 

    as directed.

 They seduce us 

      soulless,

      violate

     Creation  

      All this

 in their stylized

    perversion 

         of 

       REAL

- Nature grievously abused

- "Gotta have" and 

  "Gotta have more have"

- rush, multitask,

  hurry scurry stressed

- media mauled psyche

- molding and modelling 

  head and heart 

          for

    possession

    prominence

    pleasure 

    power.

We end up, well, 

    upside 

    DOWN

all spun around

in thought, affect,

effort, attention,

purpose and energy.

We're duped and doped,

      desensitized 

            to

          REAL

            to

       God Love 

       all about 

      deep within

              In short, 

    and are we ever shorted,

         THE MONARCHS

                  OF

   MONEY AND MANIPULATION

        have stolen our souls

        sucked them out of us

        suckered us soul sterile

               UNREAL

       TOWARD

Let's step out into the 

brightness and fresh air 

            of 

      REALM REAL

 So clear and beautiful

      We see that 

      we were born

      to fall in love, 

       fall in love

          with  

  God, neighbor, self

   Deuteronomy 6:5

   Matthew 22:36-40

    That's the #1

     "command"

         (L) com = together

         (L) manus = hand   

             "command" 

         "be hand in hand"

            and that with 

             Love Itself

                 and

        "God is (that) love"

             1 John 4:8

                That's 

          who, how, what 

                 God

                  is

         and we are invited

                to be

                ONE

                 in 

    God's Love Forever Flow!

That's the whole purpose 

of our short years on earth.

Our years here are for 

one and only one reason,

     to accept the

       invitation

  to be loved divine

           and 

    to love divinely

   In other words,

       BE ONE

     WITH GOD

      IN LOVE

      We are birthed 

              in 

Love's beautiful Creation

         See, savor, 

         breath in 

       the freshness

             of

     Creation's start

        Genesis 1

a delightful, mythic telling

so simply pure that even 

a child can be drawn into

the wonder of it 

      "...it was good, 

      it was very good."

         

      At the other end 

      of our years,

      when we die,

      we will forever 

          "BE"

         in Love

         or not

         "BE"

         at all

   

   It's one hell 

   of a choice

        or

It's one heaven 

  of a choice.

We choose 

with our living.

Our choice 

becomes  

our forever.

Ours is not to stress

trying to create  

heaven on earth.

Ours is to begin

heaven here on earth, 

gift and guest of God.

    Here and forever

The one and only durable 

          is love.

    So we break free 

    from the love void,

                 the 

          Reality Vacuum 

                 of

         THE MONARCHS 

OF MONEY AND MANIPULATION

        We let God love us 

         Real and Forever

We welcome the Spirit of God

        to flow into us

          through us

             and 

        forth from us.

         Jesus the

      "way, truth, life"

          John 14:6

            is how

     we go about that.

We live God Love

- in community:

"Where two or three

 are gathered together 

 in my name 

 I am in their midst."

    Matthew 18:20

    In other words

God's local address is:

      Us Together

        In Him

In loving community

It's the launch pad 

to forever.

It's just a starter.

It's sweaty sweet.

Lots of roses.

Thorns too.

We're together in class 

    learning Love.

Some days and ways 

are better than others 

   until we get it all

     LoveRight

Instead of being 

screened dull dead

we are onlined together,

delightfully attentive 

as God loves us 

and gets us in on 

      loving 

everyone and thing.

1 Corinthians 13 

   tunes us in:

"Love is patient, 

 love is kind,

 It does not envy, 

 it does not boast,

 it is not proud.

 It is not rude,

 it is not self-seeking, 

 it is not easily angered,

 it keeps no record of wrongs.

 Love does not delight in evil, 

 but rejoices with the truth.

 It always protects,

 always trusts, 

 always hopes, 

 always preservers."

 

That happens

 where we live,

 at work, 

 in the neighborhood,

 in our family, 

 how we vote,

 while driving,

 in our lifestyle,

 with our "haves"

 and no more of them 

 than we need.

    It thrives,

    vivifies

    daily life, 

 our time and emphasis,

 our inclusion of those "other",

 our repeated forgiving,

 our disciplined exposer 

 to social media,

 our response to 

 political and mass media

      manipulation 

          and 

     maleficence,

our open, joyful 

recognition of 

God loving us 

deep within 

     and 

  all about 

in smiles, sunrises, 

children playing,

a kindness received,

prayerfully letting God

mystic merge us,

a convivial church supper,

a hike in the mountains 

and for old ones like me, 

sitting in the sunshine.

We come alive 

immersed in attitudes, 

experiences and exposures, 

reactions, choices

        of 

   God Love

     given 

     to us 

 and flowing

 through us.

We're all invited

to be detoxed 

from the 

narcotic nothingness 

of hollowed out living, 

of moneyed manipulation.

      INFLUENCED 

      AWAY FROM

We're all invited to be

      hotwired, 

     passionate,

    about living 

    the purpose 

   of our creation,

        to be  

    loved divine

        and 

  to love divinely

  INFLUENCED 

    TOWARD

     In all honesty

I'm not that much of an

     INFLUENCER

     Not to worry!

I have another friend,

    Passion Itself

     Love Itself

 "flowing through"

       "into"

     all that is 

       real, 

       true, 

       good, 

       loving

THE WHOLLY SPIRIT

THE DIVINE INFLUNCER

We're in the best of hands!

  

So there we have it 

         AND

     who/what 

    will have us

       

      THE MONARCHS 

                OF

MONEY AND MANIPULATION

                or

    THE WHOLLY SPIRIT

               OF

       DIVINE LOVE

    Who sets our stage?

    Who directs our dance?

    Who/what will be our forever,

                our

             ETERNAL

           INFLUNCER

             ******

PS:

   "Well, I told you so!"

upfront that I am passionate

about this deciding factor 

in our existence and forever.

     All this is so central, 

         so ultimate

        that hopefully  

         ELEMENTS

    FOR DISCERNMENT

       can be an assist.

       It follows after 

    the announcements

            below.

   Please consider taking 

         lots of soul

             over 

        lots of time 

           with it.

  Getting freed from the

     Erosion of Real

     will require both

           as will 

getting "radically" situated 

              in

        Realm Real

           ******

      WELCOME ALL

  And was there ever

       lots of us all

       from all over 

our shared global home

        this week.

          It is 

    ALL TOGETHER

     wonder-full

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     ELEMENTS

         FOR

   DISCERNMENT

       Some 

    questions, 

    considerations,

    challenges,

    supports, 

    prompts,

    references

      to craft 

    a response 

    to forever.

Do we really "get it"

that the oxygen of 

our culture is toxic, 

that we are 

drugged delusional?

You know, things like

- drivenness to

  get ahead and 

  lose a heart

  in the chase

- the lie of 

  "the good life"

  that fools/fouls us 

  in the promise,

  exhausts us

  in the striving,

  leaves us cloyed

  in the end 

- the illusion that

  we've got 

  to keep up 

  with others 

  in anything but 

  loving, peaceful, 

  mutual support,

     but rather

     sad strive

  to keep up with

  cars, address, 

  wardrobe, acquisitions,

  titles, fashion fixations,

  frenetic striving to belong

  in circles that spin us 

  round and round in 

  dizzy cycles nowhere,

- the accumulation of

  more than needed

- why have a 

  Cadillac Escalade

  when a Chevy Equinox

  will get us there just fine

  and the difference could

  make a difference for the 

  45 million young children 

  across the globe 

  suffering from 

  severe malnutrition 

  each year?

  (Children International).

  If that rings radical, it is.

  (L) radix = root

  We go to the root 

  of what Jesus says:

  "Do not store up 

   for yourselves 

   treasures on earth...

   But store up 

   for yourselves 

   treasures in heaven...

   For where your treasure is, 

   there your heart will be also." 

      (Matthew 6:19-21)

    what's at the heart of 

    what we are all about?

- the point not to be missed 

  is not that Jesus would have us 

  be dirt poor, but that 

  Jesus would have us live such

  that millions upon millions

  would no longer have 

  to live dirt poor.

- If the whole world were to live

  as Americans live we would need 

  the resources of five planet earths. 

  We only have one.

         (University of Michigan, 

  Center For Sustainable Systems)

  Only living Divine Love 

  will balance out such a love deficit.

  That would mean a modest, 

  tasteful, lifestyle for all.

- Can we break out of the 24/7

  supposed "news" bombardment, 

  that overloads, overwhelms, 

  our souls and psyches 

  displacing a calmness of spirit,

  a soul sensitivity to God Love

  deeply intimate in us 

  and so splendid all round?

- Can we eschew addiction to 

  supposed social media 

  that is anything but 

  socially real or healthy?

- Will we keep at it until 

  we find or found

  a genuine 

  spiritual community?

-Will we deeply consider 

  with others the depths 

  of sacred writings?

- Are we ready to work 

  for social justice

  without becoming 

  either obsessed or

  self-righteous about it?

- Can we get beyond 

  churchy piety 

  and fall into 

  profound prayer,

  letting God 

  draw us intimate?

- Do we truly realize 

  it's either 

  "Thy Kingdom come"

              or

   Empire's Rule Unreal

   and that we are 

   currently trending 

   to one or the other

           AND

    it's an eternal tip

    with consequence?

- When it comes to 

  values, judgements, 

  actions, reactions,

  are they such that 

  they really are 

  Jesus living love in us?

  A close, honest look at 

  how we spend our time,

  invest our energies,

  live our preferences,

  will answer the question

  and probably will bobble up

  new, life/love 

  significant questions.  

- Just how actually 

  is Jesus the model 

  and companion 

  of our lives?   

  He prayed, 

  was profoundly 

  intimate with Abba.

  He helped and healed.

  He was completely human.

  He ate and drank 

  with all sorts of people. 

  He lived in community.

  and it was far from perfect.

  He didn't bail.

  Jesus was GodLove 

  personalized.

  Are we open to such

  in us with and for others?

  Jesus birthed 

  a new world order.

  There were lots of 

  birthing pains to it.

  He did it in 

  less-than-optimal 

  circumstances.

  He did it the midst of

  the evil that was the 

  Roman Empire.

  The bullyboys

  in the front office

  made him pay 

  with his life.

  They didn't realize that 

  life is more than a body.

  The GodLove that is Jesus

  sure suffered and died

   and simply sprung free,

  like a seed maturing 

  through and beyond 

  the confines of earth. 

  In us and our world 

  are we open to 

  our potential, 

  no matter 

  what it costs us?

  To catch the Spirit,

         better, 

         to let 

      The Spirit 

       catch us,

   please consider 

slow soulful months

         with

  EAGER TO LOVE

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   Francis of Assisi

     Richard Rohr

   Franciscan Media

   Cincinnati, Ohio

      Richard is 

   a clear channel

          of 

      GodLove.

     a wonderful 

    INFLUENCER

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Hey, we all sure got 

our money's worth 

this week and well 

the investment.

It's been long, 

long on GodLove

and the gift of

The Wholly Spirit

      as our

 INFLUENCER

See you next week.

    Love to all.

    God Bless

   John Frank

                  frankly speaking

              spirituality for the street

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                       ******

 

  

 

  

          

        

 

 

 

 

       

       

 

 

GIVEN THE GIVENS

    FRIENDS 
Posting a day early.

Dear All of Us,

    This is 

from my heart

to your hearts.

I am eighty-five.

Like many elderly,

I am dealing with

congestive heart failure

and allied concerns.

I may die before dinner.

I may live a limited 

menu more of years.

Between now and when

I am slowed down to

mostly homebound. 

    GIVEN THE GIVENS

         I embrace 

            this

    limiting condition 

            this

         New Now

          suchly.

While Brother Bod 

flutters and fails,

mind and spirit

fire on all 

twelve cylinders.

I thank God, 

am peaceful 

and grateful,

   blest of 

family, friends,

faith community,

and the opportunity

to serve spiritual by

writing and companioning.

       I am going on 

       with full living 

              in a

       limiting condition.

I encourage same

        for 

"Dear All of Us".

We all are living 

  in a chaotic

limiting condition

   these days

      and 

it's going to get 

   a lot more

     chaotic

       and

    limiting.

The Body Public

flutters and fails.

   As a people

we are suffering 

   congestive 

  heart failure. 

  It's not going 

   to go away.

     We are. 

Here in my homeland

   and worldwide

we are experiencing 

   the exhaustion

         of our 

    corporate core,

       the heart 

           of 

     who and how 

       we are

    as a people

     and what

   flows from it.

  We have lived 

       a lie

     and it is 

 laying us low.

We have ingested

     a diet of 

  self-centered 

      greed 

      power 

    pleasure

aggressiveness

   willfulness

reckless relativism.

 It has clogged 

   our hearts.

   "As you sow, 

     so shall 

     you reap."

  Galatians 6:7

  We refuse to face 

  our original sins 

    and repent.

Colonizing Nations 

across the globe

raped and slaughtered

Indigenous Peoples,

stole their land.

Too many most 

then enslaved and 

used fellow humans 

    as animals.

      It was 

  a deadly start.

       Build a 

    Body Public

  on dead bodies

        and

 it's founded on 

   a cemetery.

The ghosts haunt us.

       

    Nation Bodies 

    so conceived

have a defective heart

that can't help but 

eventually fail.

Right now 

is eventually.

        As a

    Body Public

 we are suffering

  "active dying".

   Misinformation,

  sleaze, violence,

   vapid religion,

    grab greed,

    excessive

    militarism,

   materialism,

   me-ism,

   rage,

   loneliness, specialty men,

   cultural warfare, deterioration,

   and deconstruction,

  a perverting media,

  surface living,

        all

      block

   arteries of 

communication,

     civility,

      The

Common Good,

  the flow of

  God Love.

     

      Systems 

         and 

     Structures

      collapse

    resulting in:

      Injustice

        Wars

    Internments

Gender discrimination

      Mistrust

     Genocide

  Nuclear Threats

     Despots

     Racism

  Xenophobia

    violence

  Police states

 Less and less 

    for most,

 more and more

   Lurid Lavish 

      for the 

  controlling few,

  Finance fragile,

  Cancel culture,

Soul soft limp religion,

truth trashed,

Virgin Nature despoiled,

     AI computing 

dominance and demise.

     It's terminal.

       We don't have 

       to settle for it.

   GIVEN THE GIVENS

             of 

worldliness wilding wrong

     we certainly are 

     more and more 

         limited

       societally

  

   GIVEN THE GIVENS

             of 

          Jesus

  there is absolutely 

      no limit bar

           to 

          full, 

      vigorous,

       joyous

    life together

   in a community of 

   outreach, other care

   justice seeking

   earth caring

   simple lifestyle  

   a people of prayer

   of Love Lived

     right here

     right now

         in 

   The Kingdom 

         of 

       God.

     

      Jesus 

  announced it,

  initiated it,

  modelled it,

  died birthing it,

  offers it.

     "I have come 

      that you 

      might have life 

      and have it 

      to the full."

     John 10:10

    A cozy little 

   corner church 

       with 

    to die for 

casserole suppers

every Wednesday

  won't hold up

        or 

   hold us up.

Jesus The Christ 

        will

in the community 

      that is

 The Kingdom 

     of God

Easy, Sunday religion

isn't what Jesus offers.

      He offers 

a tiny almost nothing

    mustard seed

 that will tower over

     the rubble of

     phony, failed, 

     worldliness.

   Matthew 13:31

    Jesus tells us 

The Kingdom of God

     is right here

  in the midst of us 

community committed.

    Luke 17:21

It is like yeast that

that rises, raises up

   to a fullness.

 Matthew 13:33

It is costly.

We need to cash in 

ALL WE COUNT ON

 and purchase 

   the pearl 

      of 

 great price.

Matthew 13:45

Costly Choice!

As Bonhoffer stressed,

no cheap grace.

Things are bad

spinning worst.

We get swirled 

down and out

      or 

 we get all 

 we need 

 uplifted

        in

Kingdom Living:

    "But first seek 

     his kingdom 

     and all else 

     will be added 

     unto you."

    Matthew 6:33

Jesus tells it straight.

We must choose.

We need to get past 

   churchy piety

and deep dive together 

into for real, practical,

         living  

     The Sermon 

     On The Mount,

     all of it and fully.

      Matthew 5-7:

       Eight Attitudes on how to Be 

       Salt and light for others

       Kill not even with words

       Love enemies, pray for them

       Fidelity in fact and fantasy

       Speak simple yes or no

       Return good to those who harm us

       Pray for enemies

       Quietly give to the needy

       Simple, God intimate prayer

       No showy ascetical posturing 

        Heaven banked treasures

       "You cannot serve both God and money".

       Trust God and be worry free

       No judging thus judgement freed

       Freely, fully asking God for needs

       No short cuts - go the narrow gate way

       Fruits prove roots

       Build rock founded, no porous quick fix.

           GIVEN THE GIVENS

    We are in for ever widening limits

    in this societal heart attack 

    people provoked.

          GIVEN THE GIVENS

    Jesus is dying to wrap us into 

        The Kingdom of God

    In fact Jesus died to flip us 

          Kingdom Free.

            May we all 

            "live say":

          

           I am going on 

           with full living

                  in a 

          limiting condition.

                 All this 

            "Dear All of Us" 

             from my heart

             to your hearts.

              Lots of hard

              Lots of hope

          GIVEN THE GIVENS

                 In Love,

               John Frank

   

        "Our Father... 

        Thy Kingdom come."

     In the dark of the moon,

     in flying snow,

     in the dead of winter,

     war spreading,

     families dying,

     the world in danger,

     I walk the rocky hillside,

     sowing clover.

         Wendell Berry

            1968

    And on the lighter side:

    Given My Givens

    as I fall asleep

    every night 

    I pray:

     "So God,

     Where will 

     we wake up

     in the morning?"

        John Frank

          ******

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