yvalker (tip toe): September 2025

miss ta walker?

(version c) .. “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 all 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 peak.

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 in 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 to this goal I know I’ll slow

-ly keep on moving too;

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.

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 Holy Spirit 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 images, & 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 given us to be "shomers" (Hebrew word for "custodians" or "stewards") of.

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 “miss ta walker”) and I don't want anymore to be one of the walkers who was missed, because he ran to hide, or to miss that walker in the garden (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 towards the end of 2025.. yvalker.blogspot.com

Join me for stage 2 -

which might be “share in the walk of life nearby, & several weekend walks around Orange in 2027”.

If interested- comment below

or send a text to let me know.

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Mentioning Models/ Motivations

Below is a reason, model or motivation (or two) for my walking. Some are contradictory, but may still never-the-less be achieved on a given walk; e.g. times of solitude, time connecting deeply with others may both be achieved on a walk with breaks in it & with options like establishing a daily rhythm of silence for the first hour on the trail of each day.

. The sound of the LORD God going for a walk in the cool of the evening. (on hearing which, Adam & Eve after their disobedience, instead of joyously joining in, went & hid. This was a sign of their real, previous, death. They were now in reality "The Walking Dead")

. Adam & Eve sent out of the Garden Paradise, to the East, to till the soil from which they had been made; & the son of Adam (Cain) being sent as a “wanderer East of Eden”. (cf Nerida’s sheepdog story) . Enoch, about a 7th descendant of Adam, even after the great disobedience, the death of humanity, who “walked with God for 300 yrs.” . Terah & his son Abram, are wandering Arameans given a command by God, to go somewhere in particular - along the lines of their current desires/dreams, though not in line with slumping into doing nothing. This response to God’s command turned their wandering into purposive action; it meant Abe was travelling until God told him to stop. Then Abram travelled down to Egypt & back, (to escape a drought), & was then told by God to walk through-out the land, to see where his descendants would be inheriting, “because I am going to give it all to you”. God seems to be into inheritances, gifts that you will pass on to others, where you can rejoice in someone-else’s delight. . Jacob, walks off hundreds of km. to run from his brother's vengeance, to his old relatives & safety, with nothing but a walking stick, & returns >7 years later with a whole family. . The “Exodus”- the WAY out of slavery in Egypt, & into being a free people under God in their own land. Normally a trip that took less than 2 weeks, but for them took 40 yrs, while they waited for everyone (almost; with 2 exceptions) to die, before the new Nation entered it’s promised land. . Immediately after their exit from Egypt, this people were to walk for three days into the desert to worship the Creator Spirit there. It was here that Moses was then told to walk up a mountain that was to all appearances undergoing a volcanic eruption, where he stayed for over a month, receiving the insight of the Ten Words as part of the Stipulations of a Covenant the Creator Spirit was making with this people. But “to whom much is given, much will be required”. Alongside awesome blessings for keeping their part of this Covenant, the people agreed to (about 9) awful curses if they did not. . Jesus saying to the 12 "Come & follow me", then through all the towns of Galilee heralding the announcement of the Emperor's coming near. . Jesus sending his 12, then the 70 (or 72), out in pairs, to cover all the towns where he was about to go (with no provisions). . The 12 disciples' trip to Galilee (after the resurrection), to meet up with Jesus, & get their new marching orders. . Jesus sending the 120 (10x12?) out accross the earth (into all the world) to make disciples of Jesus as God's Christ + Phillip with the Ethiopian Official.

The Israelites were not the only people to be given a land by the Creator Spirit, but (a remnant of) their oral & written histories have probably been best kept. The blueprint for the bones of an ideal society given to this fledgling nation involved whole communities travelling every year, the length & breadth of their country (admittedly smaller than Tazzy) to a central Temple to (not fake-worship & fake-serve another human peer, but to) truly-worship the great King who actually made all the land (as well as the sea, sky & stars in the wondrous universe given humanity). They walked as pilgrims, singing psalms of ascent, camping overnight, continuing on in the mornings until they arrived (admittedly nowhere was more than a few hundred kilometres from “the Temple in Zion”). This same people, within half a millenium of entering the land, were all walking barefootedly from Israel & their beautiful Temple, as captives & slaves (once again) to Exile in Babylon. The prophets of the Creator Spirit had warned them about reaping what they sowed, about God not being mocked & about his hatred of hypocritical “worship bands”, and these covenant reinforcement mediators invoked the covenental “curses” on this rebellious & headstrong adolescent nation. [though often with a strange edge of future hope for a remnant, who would be faithful] About a hundred years after the Exile of the Israelites of the Southern Israelite kingdom (Judah), the current ruling Emperor, Cyrus the Persian, & the next Emperor(s), in a bid to keep good with “The God of Heaven”, send a delegation of these people (from a few of the 12 tribes which together had made up the Israelite nation in it’s heyday under King David & his son Solomon) back to Jerusalem in their homeland, & to the work of rebuilding the city’s protective wall & it’s Temple. This journey is in hopeful “fear & trepidation”. Yeshua, as a baby, is carried to Egypt (& back) by his parents, to escape from the Emperor's representative in that area: "King Herod". Jesus travels back to Jerusalem's temple after the 40 days in the desert. Jesus being filled with the Spirit at his baptism & then sent out into the desert for 40 days [without food (& water?)] Jerusalem Jews (under Saul of Tarsus, after Steven's Stoning) travelling through the Empire. Franciscan Monks Celtic Monks Pilgrims in Spain

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