The moon is a balloon the title of a book authored by David Niven, a poem by E.E. Cummins Who Knows If The Moon’s
who knows if the moon’s
a baloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky—filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should
get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their baloon,
why then
we’d go up higher with all the pretty people
than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody’s ever visited, where
always
it’s
Spring) and everyone’s
in love and flowers pick themselves
[…]
Bearing fruit in all seasons? And a heavenly City coming down from Heaven? Smile
Don’t let reflected glory inflate your head as in Bring On the Empty Horses (another one by David Niven) /
But do remember Who is the Head
Only shame and a blood red moon can come from it in the first case.
Gideon was a reasonable man and sent of God, but he “did not quite make the grade” so there is a lesson for us in there. It is in man’s (fallen) nature to look out for our own glory, (respect from others, the good name of our family _that one is important, indeed God’s Word tells us so). Unlike the sons of God singing and ringing it out at the majestic appearance of the Morning Star (it is Mazzaroth in the Hebrew) Job 38
Christ Jesus is my Head He is my God He is powerful And He reigns over all things Jeremiah 23.5, visible to men and invisible _For God said: He is the One in Who i take all My Pleasure. (This would rightly be called Plaisir d’Amour.) Le don de la Grâce _God’s perfect Sign of His accreditation, the Son He is powerful!
There are two witnesses known to the Church they are the fig tree and the olive tree , they are in the company of the Vine Judges 9.7-13
I told you there was going to be NO religeous talk, i did not say anything about capitals. Or some images projected for us in a book called the Bible. Don’t get irritated.
the story i wanted to tell within this context is a story of two ewes and two wolves
Some years back set in Brussels in a square let us name the wolves as vanity and the other fear, that is on the allegorical level and that level is no less real than, i understand, the events to have been, somewhere in the nineteen fifties
a shepherd had around a hundred sheep and one day in the mountains he finds twenty lost, this was in wolf infested country on the Greek – Yugoslavian border so these twenty were astray lost and it was impossible for him there to abandon the remainder to go and look for the missing sheep
When in the evening the shepherd returned to the village enclosure (percarium, schaapskooi, whitherspang (OR -spoon) On his way there he found two ewes down a little valley not far away from the ‘twenty, ‘ but separated from them, and there they were held by two wolves
However God had shut (or locked) the wolves’ jaws
Jesus is Awesome Amazing! He is Brilliant
Does this sound like a ‘fairy’ tale to you? Well <saphir> in the Hebrew does mean ‘to tell’
The story was told to me by a Greek miner in response to my witness to him of Jesus’ reality in our very own lives, and to men to mankind or society
CONCLUSION
this man was found by God’ s judgment to be a faithful and caring shepherd by the Great Shepherd AND KAI God saw his heart
everything, nearly, today is a little too much for me, “cela me dépasse,” as the shepherd was not so much “out of his depth” rather than found wanting there where he was at _not your ‘wanting’ in the usual English sense/ His Shepherd however was AND is forever Faithful, Sincere
Isaiah 11.5 emeth Elmeth
aleidha = true as against false _ the shepherd that day in his day of judgment saw his little flock saved And the whole village learnt about it and far afield i’ d hope
JOY GOD IS FAITHFUL
to joy in our hearts when the pressure is on
to do the Word AND
(How on earth can you say that in French?!)
to do Love
And trees clapping their hands _How do they do that? It is not discrete AND KAI it is more than one. It is One.
One level of this story is factual and as heard from the man, the other is allegorical. No less true. Just using the images familiar to many of us familiar with sheepses and goats
In Dutch we call this ‘duiding,’ Ferdinand de Saussure would have named it “to signify“ meaning
the oil of gladness we have in Yesuah, there we have truly seen the Father, Abba!
And therefore spoken forth.
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