Taylor mali poem - StumbleUpon

Taylor mali poem - StumbleUpon

Well, believe it or ...... no just believe it we are moved!!!! Moved in would be a bit of an overstatement since we are still up to our ears in boxes. But, the Internet is now connected (is this new Telus high speed ever fast) and the bed is set up. Perhaps I will now become motivated to write.

I have been setting up my computer, and stumbled upon this mali poem Very interesting. Thought you might find it interesting.

TTFN to quote one of my favourites.

Well folks, here it is the middle of summer ( then again it might last more than two weeks) and we, that's Elaine and I, are not moving but waiting to move. We have been pretty much packed up for a month now since we needed to sell the 5th wheel we have been living in for the last three years or so. At least thats what we thought. It turns out that the 38 ft 5th wheel is not a readily sale-able commodity. Sooo we have been camping in the 5th wheel. You know the routine; "Honey have you seen _____?" Thats normal since I am usually the asker. What isn't normal is the answer. "Oh we packed that, I know exactly where it is." Followed by an increasingly frantic search of the container first by 'The finder of all things' and thence by 'The fixer of all things.' This situation escalates in direct proportion to the importance of the misplaced, packed, or lost object, you know shoe laces, through to recovery disks for the just crashed computer. If you know me well you will know that I made the last one up, after all why would I make a recovery disk? The computer has never crashed before, at least not in the past ten years or so. Oops, that's not quite true as I did fry the CPU in the desk top last year, I guess that qualifies as a crash. You should have seen the smirk on the face of the tech when I explained why I needed him to recover the data off that hard drive.

Come on now give me a break, I was only trying to clean out all that dust which was clogging up the cooling function of the CPU and the Power supply. Remember, I am 'the fixer of all things' so what else would you expect from me.

Just maybe there is a lesson tucked away in here somewhere. Is it that waiting can be hard? Perhaps, but then again it might just be that I need to learn that some things need the specialist to do the fixing. Oft times I try to do what the Holy Spirit was given to us to do, ie point out where the real problem is and then to point us to the real source of power for the implementation of the of the solution. I am not off the hook since I still have to be willing to appropriate that power by faith. Oh, did I tell you that even the faith has to be accessed from the Saviour. Good thing though, because while I want to 'Be in control" and try to play at being God, the real truth is that I just don't have either the power or the faith within me.

What about you?

War, Is it necessary? Peace, Is it realistic

I came upon this site when studying for a Peace lesson I had been asked to prepare for our Home Group. I was fascinated by the Cafe concept not to mention the content. Thought you might find it interesting.

Third Way Cafe (Peace Blend) - Third Way Media

When you can't move

Well we are moving, having purchased a condo in Langley city.

There could be so much to say if I weren't so tired from getting the 5th wheel ready to sell. Please pray it does sell.

In the last post I wrote that more was coming. What I was thinking about was something I wrote a few years ago. In this case the main character couldn't move. Can you imagine that. Yes some of you can through experience. I can only imagine, which is what I did and wrote a short play in verse for narrator and four voices. I called it "Flat On A Mat," I hope you enjoy.

FLAT ON A MAT

A poem for narrator and four voices

Narrator

Flat on a mat he lay

helpless and forlorn.

Flat on a mat he lay

this man from Capernaum.

He had learned to listen carefully,

since his limbs he could not move,

to the sounds of feet of friends or foe.

Often alone and abandoned,

he learned how and when to cry out.

Schemuel

“Where go you now – don’t leave me alone

Who do you go to seek?”

Friend

“Joseph the carpenter’s son, Jesus, is causing quite a stir.

He’s teaching and healing with such great power

The rulers are all in a flap.

‘He’s stealing our sheep!’

‘He’s blaspheming God!’

‘Just wait till the Romans hear this!’ ”

Schemuel

“Please help me, I’d see him if only I could.

I knew him when he was a child.”

Friend

“Wait here,

I’ll get Caius and Zeke,

I’m sure they will help

and Maxim is still in his shop!”

Schemuel

“Maxim will help? Surely not!”

Friend

“Oh yes he will help, says your bad for his trade.”

Maxim

“”Come let us be off,

he’s been here quite long enough

depleting my profits what with welfare and all.

Perhaps Jesus will fix him enough

to take him off our hands!”

Friend

“Be quiet Maxim, You know he can hear

and feels deeply as you or I.”

Caius

“Look at the crowd, the house is full

we can’t even get near the door!”

Friend

“Lets try the roof!”

Others

“It will not work:”

- “The stairs are too narrow.”

- “He’ll expire in the heat.”

- “There’s no door up there you know”

Friend

“Just get on with it, and don’t complain!

Careful now! – lift that tile with care

don’t let any drop.”

Zeke

“There, I see him below,

looks ordinary to me.”

Maxim

“Tie the ropes well,

careful, don’t let him fall.”

Caius

“Good,

they’re taking him now from below.”

Zeke

“I can’t hear, be quiet,

I think he said something ‘bout sins.”

Maxim

“The Priests and Law Keepers

are rabid with rage!.”

Friend

“He’s speaking again.

They’ve stoped shouting.

Schemuel’s moving his arms! Now his legs and feet.”

“Look he’s sitting up and rolling his mat!”

Maxim

“And now he’s walking out of the house.”

Friend

“What was it that Jesus said?’

Zeke

“All I heard was something ‘bout going home.”

Caius

“And I thought that Jesus was just one of the guys.”

Narrator

Flat on a mat was he

Then Jesus spoke you see

What does Jesus speak to thee?

© 08/08/2004GNMcL

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Moving Who would have thot.

Moving!----what a word.

So simple

yet so vastly

complex

Moving! surely you know what I mean

you don't?

well perhaps it does need a little clarification

After all

I have the advantage since I have been thinking about it

for a few months now

Lets try the old reporters standard

W, W, W, W and W

oh lets add an H in there

just for good measure

Then again we might take a different approach

think of the options

moving over - wow the possibilities

moving up - the ladder, the food chain, in society

moving out - from home, a house, a relationship

moving away - finally, for the first time

moving on - in life, in love, from?????

moving not - satisfied, stuck, dead

What does your imagination conjure up

Where you are or have been, likely

informs what each phrase brings to mind

Well I have to keep moving here

more to come

pretty ordinary, eh

yes I am Canadian

PS Have you moved lately?

Blessings