Creative love, when I've been cold, or wet,
or dry, or bold, or almost scared to death,
in all these things, I can share with you, bet
you feel them presently in me, a feath-
er, hair, or tooth, or nail in hand or foot,
cannot fall off, be driven into wood,
without you knowing, feeling, and it could
be said that if a cup of water should
be given to "the least of these", it was
so given to yourself, or your anoint-
ed one, who was rejected too becoz,
you were yourself rejected, un-appoint-
ed, spearned by who you fed and watered, clothed,
& sheltered gave a space, & home within,
your place, where you would walk and talk. We loathed
to walk, we baulked, we felt embarrassed when
there came an opportunity to join
with you, in ways most intimately done,
to be, in fact, in ev'ry way, in loin,
in heart, in mind, in purpose, right at one
with you, in your embrace, and when you traced
the line of jaw or neck, enmeshed within
your secret self shown to who lived and faced
their maker, lover. Oh my GOD, I sin,
unless response is Everything and All,
to love unbridled, unbounded, allowed
to author me (a god, but only small,
a baby, yet a fetus). Be hallowed!
..Be hallowed, by this one, here, now, at least
this starts the rest of this one life's response.
Is this quite fair? You give to me a feast,
and though I'm naked, blind, and poor at once,
you let me, as you did old Enoch then,
accept the offer of your company,
as you would walk through your world now, and when
you choose to do so. I would live to see
this world through your eyes, and you may take mine,
and look through them, as though they were your own,
these hands & feet, if yours may be divine,
but too, rejected, as has been your "throne".
* " ..stays in me, and I in them" (John 6:53-59)
"‘If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you for ever – the Spirit of truth. … you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realise that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.’ … ‘Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. … That the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.
"I in them, and thou in me" (John 17:20-26)
1 Sam 8:7; Jem 15:6; ; Luke 10:16;
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