Dear All of Us,
So, I just got
a new pair of cargoes,
my favored most pants.
I'd ware them to bed
if I could get away with it.
Given their givens
and
given my givens,
though,
size-wise
adjustments
are requisite
if there is to be
any kind of a
FIT
(and that's
entirely up to
the cargoes,
of course!)
Not so our
spiritual lives.
There it's strictly
Double Dutch,
us and other,
when adjustments
are requisite for a
FIT
We and all manner
of things
material, spiritual,
social, personal,
and
environmental
interwork change
for a
God Good
FIT
It mostly means
much more than
a tiny touch
of tailoring.
For us to be
FIT
for a
maturing
spiritual life
means a
continuous
"re-sizing"
of our
images,
concepts,
attitudes,
relationships,
and
practices
about God,
about ourselves,
about just about
everybody
and
everything else.
It is decidedly
Adjust
for a
GOD GOOD
FIT
A lanky lean teen
can't fit into
a toddler
stout short.
We change
to fit in with
what is good,
as is
or we are
"unfit"
That hurts us
and
we hurt others.
That's because the
ONENESS
that is
God,
that is
What Is,
Goodness,
Existence,
Creation,
Reality
"Is"-ness
is
a
delightful dynamic, an
expansive movement,
God Good
creatively, continuously
unfolding forth.
"When i was a child
I talked as like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child.
When I became an adult,
I put childish ways behind me."
1 Corinthians 13:11
Freeing change
FIT
for fullness.
It's exhausting but
it's exciting because
it's expansive
in all directions.
So much for
"Give me that
old time religion."
When I was
five years old,
God was up there
in heaven,
busy at the controls.
Now at eighty-five,
God is deepest me,
all around,
endlessly beyond,
All In All.
In truth, though,
I can't
contain God
in a concept.
Happily,
Metaphor,
Analogy,
Simile
Poetry
speak a peek
into
The Mystery
of
What Is,
of
God
For me
at eighty-five
it's like this:
I am immersed
in a
Sea of Good,
flowing in
creative currents
of
God's Love
dynamic in delight.
I am in the flow
and the flow is
in me and
through me.
Sure, there is some
disgusting pollution
fouling the flow
right now
in our world
and in me.
It's in the
process of being
purged pure in
God's Redemptive,
Recreative Love
Currents.
Hey, I'm starting
to sound like
like a preacher!
Gotta Go.
I'm off for a walk
wearing my
new cargoes.
After my daughter
tailored them,
we're such a
comfy good
FIT
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FURTHERENCE
For Ponder Prayer
"Remember not
the former things,
nor consider
the things of old.
Behold, I am doing
a new thing:
now it springs forth,
do you not perceive it?
I will make a way
in the wilderness and
rivers in the desert."
Isaiah 43:18-19
- We need to let go
to take hold,
to be taken hold of.
"For everything
there is a season,
and a time for
every matter
under heavens."
Ecclesiastes 3:1
- It's time for what
where we are
in this
season of life?
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So good that
we all
fit together here
each week.
WELCOME
to all
newly come
among us.
Please feel free
to fit right in.
We'd be blest!
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prayerfully
size up
what needs
to be
"re-sized"
for a
God Good Fit
in us and
in our world.
See you next week.
A Blessed New Year.
Love to all.
God Bless.
John Frank
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