yvalker (tip toe)

Thursday, 8 May 2025

second day - travelling back to Lakeland (Coonabarabran to Toowoomba)

Headed off when the kids left for school (& returned to get phone charger). Made it to Coona, where the tyre place was that had helped fix my trolley wheels/tyres in 2022CE. Asked about new tyres for the camper-trailer, unable to be procured in Orange Tyre shops. They had two in stock, and fitted them.

Thanks Jonathon and Warren (Warren has his back to us in the far right of this photo, but also see the blog for Monday 25July 2022CE) .

We kept the best extra one and tube to be added to the trailer spare.

Dropped in to see Keith and Margaret in Narrabri who had hosted me in 2022 as I walked through Narrabri.

Thanks for the cups of tea & bickies.

Swapped driving, and Dave said he was going to go halves with me in the fuel (by paying for every second fill up). What? Talk about support crew! Thank you Dave. And thank you creative love...

We drove turn and turn about,

Here's Dave driving me once we hit queensland. We listened to someone reading a first century letter about changing whole world-views and praxis to one with Jesus Christ as the model human. Originally written in ancient Greek, but this was translated into modern English. Still it was a very different world back then. We talked about stuff like male and female connected, being the model of divinity*.

Then made it for a lovely Spag.Bol. at the King's place (Tez & Kath) with Sam & Eb, and their two daughters, little sweeties.

A lovely sleep, in a lovely bed.

Wednesday, 7 May 2025

heading back to Lakeland (Qld) to resume the walk

Monday the car was fitted in for a rego slip (pink slip) at a mechanic in the nearby town of Canowindra. Thanks for fitting me in Ben! And my rego was renewed for another year, so it shouldn't be a problem when rego was due to expire early next month. Bought a truck battery for XTM battery box. And my daughter arrived on the train for her birthday on Tuesday.

Well Tuesday I was trying to finish jobs with the car and house. A mate who is a chippy decided to come and help out on the walk as part of a support crew, driving up with me, leaving Wednesday Arvo. My eldest daughter's birthday celebrations this night.

Wednesday, last minute fitting of DC to DC charge cables for battery box, with Anderson plug on end. Removed Solar PV cell from car roof-rack, threw in bag of clothes and esky. Picked up Dave & his bags of gear. Went to see my wife Katrina at workplace, dropping off some gear I had mistakenly left in the car. When we got to her work place we found a bunch of friends visiting from Bendigo on a road-trip kind of pilgrimage. They said hello, and Goodbye and blessed us with a prayer for Godspeed and handfuls of autumn leaves falling down and waved as we left to drive off towards Dubbo.. what a lovely farewell from Orange!

(From the left, Katrina my wife, Dave my support crew buddy, Arlia, Ainslie, Jonas and Rachel (& two of their daughters), Lucas, Raff, middle daughter of Jonas & Rachel, Emily. Thanks for your well-wishes, prayers, presence, and participation in the "leaving" process)

We joined my son and daughter-in law and three grand-daughters for dinner in Dubbo. I read some of "Dogman" to my grand-daughters, and my son Gilbert printed some coloured question cards with Australian bush scenes on them for us to discuss during the days of the walk. We slept on mattresses in their study that night. How rich.

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Friday, 10 January 2025

stepping out (& in)..

So I invite you to participate

within my world, surrounding, & inside

my virtual reality relate-

-ing not as just my friend whom I’d confide

in; but also Creator of the lot.

For that story about this world and you

admits the worst, bring's out the best we’ve got,

and makes most sense of process, life, and truth.

And now I want to de-program myself

from living as my godless nature wants -

and I see your great grace in giving health

& insight, choice in how my growing’s gone

so, you let me participate within

your own creative project, this whole world,

and this one self within it where you hurled

me, what an honour. What about my “sin”?

(My “falling short”, my less than ideal ways,

my immaturity, self-centred-ness,

my lack of want to integrate, display

some more of your commitment just to bless.)

I know it's here within me, lurking still,

and trying by its weedling to control.

The leader that you picked has showed how will

I ever step out, then take up what role

you have for me within your new cre-a-

-tion. And it's stroke of genius does the job

of pointing out a new and living way:

take up - my cross

, my king’s desires (don’t rob).

Tuesday, 7 January 2025

moving…walking…ON

("still" in Orange)

My God! There’s things in my life where I need

some help to work out ways to do them well.

And not just one, but many, I concede.

But also there’s two tendencies from hell:

The one is to be lazy, in effect

to say it's up to you to make it work.

And often you have stepped in, and just swept

me up in your good purposes. You lurk

about the place, just trying to help out.

Supplying air to breathe, and often food,

some friendly face who smiles instead of doubts.

But sometimes my response has been quite rude:

instead of looking up, blessing your name,

instead of copying my father’s way

of seeing all the good that is to blame

for life continuing, then rightly say-

-ing something with my mouth to credit where

creative love has stepped in once again,

to be a kind of priest, who won’t just stare

zombie like, but look up, and disdain

the kind of independence that won’t thank

someone for spreading goodness round the place.

My other tendency’s to “soldier on”,

not looking for my orders, “on my own”.

And you want neither. You want kids who’ll shine

out with your family’s spirit, like your Christ.

Oh, thank you for your gifts of love sublime:

his spirit, and his life - all sacrificed.

I love you,

too.

Saturday, 9 November 2024

Break Month 002 - (posting weekend Sat 9th Nov 2024)

Yep, more dependence on my walking (through life) partner ...

Learning the disciplines of sharing life, with its ups and downs, trustingly, with a really good friend, or two.. Stretched to the edge of my capacity, then a bit more, I guess to learn to live in the space beyond my ego-self's boundaries and limits, as part of a family/ clan/ tribe that is bigger than "me".

Needs met and exceeded.

Almost too much to say. I'll try to put some more down... On topics like..

Work

Being creative. Changing the world, by looking for and participating in creative options, one step at a time, one day at a time, one leg at a time, with all that I am growing to be… it feels like I am learning to walk on water. A casual-relief teacher at a local High School. Helping humanity with house-renovations, and sharing accommodation and/or community with neighbours.

Study

Reading about, and participating in presenting alternative culture to me-centred living. Still living in the afterglow of Ian McGilchrist’s book The Master & his Emmisary - on Left and Right Human brain hemispheres functioning. Adding some other books/podcasts looking at alternative cultural views on walking through life, focussed on and focussed by Yeshua Ben-Natzaret.

Community

Sharing life deeply with neighbours on every side (& gaining a couple of “enemies”). Maintaing a rhythm of life that allows for slow deepening and real sharing of life, weekly walks around our community, joining in with a gym, meals shared with good friends & new friends, weekly coffee with a few blokes, sharing gear & the time of life with others…

"Mission"/ being "sent" into this world…

Not living to do what I want. There is a real paradox here, as soon as I try to put this one into words (which are not the realities they speak of, though they are meant to be related truly to them.

Living to play the rolê of a human, as understood through the cultural narratives of the Judaeo-Christian scriptures. A person, who looks at the big picture, and chooses to act for the good of the whole, prioritising the priorities.

Alongside others..

Choosing to keep connected, as deeply and truly as possible to the realities of people’s lives, as understood through their lived experiences, rather than through their virtual & verbal experiences.

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miss ta walker?

The good that Jesus Christ called “God”

through hell & high water,

is walking, and has always trod

with 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 the kind who’re “open up”

to what they were made for:

it doesn’t matter: tiny bub,

or a hundred in the shade, for

they’re like God’s kids, his child-er-en,

his own daughter or son,

whether new-born, or 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

causes pain, they still barrack ta

see it win. They have confidence

and know the mys-stur-y

of love that is it’s one defence,

won’t throw it out for just what’s 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 that power and glory are

by God owned, and on loan,

instead of them being "The STAR”,

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.

Mean-while God’s still brooding, weaving,

walking throughout his world.

“Looks” have often been deceiving,

half (his grieving) has not been told!

Jesus told us his secret plan:

to hide within the weak,

the smallest, slowest, of human-

-ity’s face, is from where he’d peak.

We’re used to looking up to ’mpress

not down to beneath us;

so he who’s real, to real-ly bless

uses 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 ways divine.

I want to give more airplay to

the stories of these ones

who let God look on this world through

the eyes of his daughters and sons.

I want to walk just as he walks

I want to see as he,

to listen as he does (and talks),

let his story be 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 with your true coaching,

one day, I’ll be the kind of man

that can handle man’s reproaching,

or human praise, and not become

sep-ar-a-ted from 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 from eyes within.

(An audio recording at piano (draft 1) made Thur 13/03/2025)

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