“..That evening they heard the LORD God walking in the garden, and they hid from him among the trees.”(Genesis 3:8)*
The good that Jesus Christ called “God”
through hell & through high water,
is walking, and has always trod
w’ his people, they’re his daughter.
It’s like there are two kinds of folk
who live throughout the Earth
- and I don’t mean the “sheila” / “bloke”
dichotomy, for what it’s worth –
I mean one kind who’re “open up”
to all that they were made for:
it doesn’t matter: tiny bub,
or hundred in the shade, for
they’re like God’s kids, his child-er-en,
his own daughter or son,
so whether new-born, two, or ten,
he loves them (and he’ll discipline)
-not in that harsh, embittered way-
but still enough to learn
the worth of all they do or say;
they learn respect, and they won’t “turn-
-on ya”, and then just be diff’rent,
they get God’s character!
They’re “open up” to love and when’t
brings pain, they still can barrack ta -
- ta see it win. They’ve confidence
and know the mys-stir-y
of love that is it’s one defence,
won’t throw it out for what’s just seen!
These folk come in shapes and sizes,
cultures - all seem diff’rent,
but the thing that each one prizes:
’s what eternity’s culture’s meant!
It means all pow’rs and glories are
sourced in this God, yet spread “on loan”.
Instead of they themselves ‘THE STARS’,
they want God’s light of LOVE more shown!
The others - have already died,
some grieving has been done;
but plans of God are now being tried
to raise them up, each one.
And meanwhile, God’s still brooding, weaving,
walking through his world.
The “Looks” have often been deceiving,
half (his grieving) ’s not been told!
As Jesus said, his secret plan
’s to hide within the weak,
the smallest, slowest, of human-
-ity holds eyes through which he’d peek.
We’re used to looking up t’impress
not down to beneath us;
so he who’s real, to real-ly bless
would use this ruse to bequeath us
his blessed image growing up
within our hearts & minds
and beings, that by showing up
will rule his world, his way - divine.
I want to give more air-play to
the stories of these ones
who let God look on this world through
his daughters’ eyes (and sons’).
I want to walk just as he walks
I want to see as he,
to listen as he does (and talks),
his story, let get told in me!
And so this goal I know I’ll slowl-
-y keep on moving to;
a walker only, but I’ll go
on day-by-day walking with you.
Not only with self-discipline,
but too with your true coaching,
one day, I’ll be the kind of man
who handles man’s reproaching,
or human praise, yet won't become
self-focussed overlooking you
and your care, in that christened ONE
who walked the dusty streets then too.
Please now again, as long ago,
come walking in some skin
and bones, and let me see, please show
your world to me through eyes within.
So when you wake me up each day
I’ll use your strength to rise -
response to partner is not “pay”.
I’m not scared stiff of my demise.
You open up my ears and mind,
as you see fit to do,
as I join in, my eyes too find
capacity to see right too..
things here on Earth, at heaven’s edge,
with sometimes hints of through,
this stage of all developments.
My partner? Yes, I will see you.
Alright, ok, ah-ha, amen!
Yes, even when I can’t
quite fully grasp, or comprehend.
I’ll start to walk; e’en when I aren’t.
* The oldest copies we have of Genesis are in the Hebrew language. Each horizontal line of Hebrew is read from Right to Left, then each successive line is read from top to bottom. See Genesis 3:verse 8 to the left.
Through y our country ...
. Listening to people in our country
. Recording and passing on others' stories
. Forming short-term community
. Focussing on Jesus by listening to a First Century Rendition of the gospel (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, The Acts of the holy s6pirit of God teamed up with a new body of Christ - on Earth as in Heaven) together, and learning together to tell it.
. Modeling an alternative way of life that is based on the mission of Jesus, which was a mission of action, and interaction, healing, wholeness, truth-telling by analogy & story-telling, and putting himself into the public mix via fraternizing with the common folk.
. Placing the soles of our feet (or sandles/shoes) on this land as the meek who will (according to Jesus, in the end) inherit the land.
. Walking with the Creator God in the land he has made us "shomers" of (Hebrew word for "custodians" or "stewards").
I am called Paul Walker (not so much ‘the fast and furious’, as “the slow and curious”), and at school I am also called “Mr. Walker” (which sounds like “missed a walker”) and I don't want anymore to miss accompanying that great Walker, or be one of the walkers who was missed because he ran to hide (see the Genesis 3 quote at the top). For more discussions on Why walk? And to get a feel for some of its impacts on me… See Micah 6:8 & these blog posts from 2nd, 3rd Dec… 2021; 19th, 20th, 22nd, 24th (A, B,), 25th Mar 2022, and (the right margin of the desktop-view of) my walking blog: the kick-start-walk finished near the end of 2025 (yvalker.blogspot.com) . Here’s an Audio recording of Gen3:8 and “missed a walker”.
Join me for stage 2 -
which might be “share in the walk of life nearby, & several weekend walks around Orange in 2027”.
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