Month: November 2014
Upon Them Has Shined A Great Light
Bride of Christ, Family of God
If our debate about the way we relate to each other as the body/family of Christ does not first stem from our understanding of our need, and the nature of our relationship with our God through His Son, by His Spirit, then the debate will go on. And our relationships will be dysfunctional.
For example:
If those who are the children of God through a right relationship with His Son, Jesus, confirmed by the presence of His Spirit within their own spirit, are called the bride of Christ then would not all have to relate to Christ as husband…including men, singles, divorcees, widows/widowers, children, teens, and wives? If each understood, believed, valued and lived in light of Christ as husband, comforter, provider, leader, lover, ‘head’, forgiver, restorer, friend, saviour, would we not better understand ourselves and our own roles in that light?
Just wondering.
My Mum
Janette Marie
Precious, gentle mother
Prayerful, kind of heart
Welcomer of persons
Young, or old, from near or far
Garden always blooming
Flowers all arranged
Cleanliness within
For tasty treats you’re famed
Kitchen is abuzz
Confiding, cuppas, fun
Eating, talking, cooking
You, or yours, or everyone
Children, children, children
One or two, or twenty-four
Painting paper, bricks or pavement
Lego, Barbie, cars and more
Drive you to the hospital
To church or Boy’s Brigade
Deliver pamphlets, meals and love
In birth or death or just g’day
Singing nursery rhymes or hymns
Any tune or note or pitch
Burn the veges or the sausages
Roasts go off without a hitch
Boil the kettle, hang the washing
Iron and vacuum, mop the floor
Change the sheets before the next lot
Comes a-knocking on the door
One moves out, and one moves in
Army, neighbourhood and youth
Follow moving van to homes
Old ones gone, new friends en-group
Laughing, crying, sorry
Cuddle, comfort, pray
Petticoat and lipstick
Barefoot, loving God all day
6/11/2014
Merilyn
Been away. Saying farewell from this world to my step-mum. Loved. Missed. Always remembered.
In gentleness you spoke and thought
In quietness you moved
In otherness of focus
Was the path you oft did choose
In jest, your laughter hearty
In grief your focus set
In cheeky shifts of humour
Work with diligence was met
In children, love rejoicing
In grandies, care and pride
In family, time well-spent
Love with husband from on high
You saw beauty all around you
Brilliant colour from the rose
Form of mankind in all seasons
Adorning cakes and walls along your road
Determined, gentle battler
Crown of persistence on your brow
Hopeful, enduring constancy
Now complete and wholly sound
I love you
28/10/2014