RENASCENT

RENASCENT © 4/17/1999 - Reprint 4/8/18 ARC Publications (5,296 words) AssociationRenaissanceCreators@yahoo.com

RENASCENT
© 4/17/1999
ARC Publications (5,296 words)
AssociationRenaissanceCreators@yahoo.com
My life is now in its harvest time -
neophyte spring and summer folly long past -
able to muse now in rhythm and rhyme:
achievements, milestones, mistakes that last -
for I’m protean and kaleidoscope in nature,
and my twilight compels me to share knowledge vast.

If I knew at fourteen what I know now,
my life would radically not be the same -
but youth does not have wisdom of wise owl,
so I did not major in law or play political game -
instead took a covert role among my peers
resulting in a modest part of local fame.



My pilgrim’s progress traversed a labyrinth way
in experiential and academic studies of note -
insatiable reading and intellectual study my play
with child development, counseling psychology my coat -
covering multi-layers of social concern and service
culminating in Renaissance Philosophy I wrote.

I know there is one God – a Divine Being
founded on exhaustive study and soul knowing -
Who is infinite – always was – all seeing.
And the mystery of God’s ways are ever sowing
coupled with free will in each and every one -
like air – invisible – sometimes felt and flowing.

Good and evil have abounded from beginning of time
portrayed in individual, family, society, and nation -
most visible in government and religious clime,
for evil rules best with power and station,
camouflaging what’s best for all by hypocrisy -
enjoying their elitism and authoritarian celebration.
The irony of it all is plain to see -
laws are made by religion and state
to create a triangular hierarchical tree
that places the few at the top who rate -
targeting the lowly – the different – the masses -
to serve them and justify their slate.

America has the ideals at least in talk -
supposed to stand for equal standards for all,
but without a doubt doesn’t walk the walk,
for semantics overrule justice under the law -
discrimination against minorities, homosexuals, women
reducing stature so that our country cannot stand tall.

The United States claims under God as its rule
stating in a Constitution respect for Divine and each other,
yet persecution of minorities from beginning reveal the fool
who condemned minorities, women, homosexual sister/brother,
and dares to use The Holy Book as its precedent
which condemns all that do not love like a mother.
Jewish, Christian, Muslim…peers laud Divine Plan
to love God with our whole heart, mind, and soul;
and to love each other as self for each woman and man,
yet their interpretations and laws reduce the whole -
imitating the infamous who used words like final solution -
saying innocents won’t be on the hereafter role.

Role models abound who have shown the way;
Mother Teresa, Raoul Wallenberg, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King;
are at the top of my list who inspire my prayers every day -
Victor Hugo, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dante, Dickens wrote words that sing.
Their classics call each generation with never ending truths -
respect and equal justice for one and all make heaven’s bells ring.

History reveals the norm of the courageous solo voice;
James Baldwin, Victor Frankel, John Steinbeck, Taylor Caldwell,
who implore us to focus on God’s gifts and rejoice
that we are co-partners in heaven and earth’s swell -
born to praise, love God, help and serve one another -
perpetuated for each generation to learn and to tell.
From morning mass throughout my prayer day
I have communion with these great souls,
coupled with saints, angels, martyrs, family kin who now lay
in marked and unknown graves for whom the bell tolls.
They teach consequences of failure to walk in shoes of another,
for there is justice by a divine God come what may.

In an ongoing spiritual metaphysical odyssey
I visit abodes in the netherworld far and near,
guided by guardian angel on enlightenment journey -
joyous times are watching family so dear -
Mom no more crippled, ice skating like a star -
retarded sister’s impeded brain now crystal clear.

Dad’s the life of the party playing gin rummy -
and my childhood friend lost at eight,
is playing so cheerful and sunny.
My angel introduces me to mentors first rate -
so many who have been my inspirational counselors,
and shows me those waiting behind the gate.
In first experience, Jesse, my guardian angel from birth
immediately took me to the realm of the Most High,
but I only watched others newly arrived from earth
have their personal audience where all is known and why.
Yet from afar I could feel the magnificent love and joy,
as Divine Arms welcomed evoking ecstasy cry.

Jesse said - the entry into Heaven is like when we were born -
transition from physical death channel to spiritual life,
with your angel guiding you to the Infinite Morn:
our Creator Who Is, always was, Healer of all strife;
and in that moment of embracement with the Godhead
comes illumination of your sins that cut like a knife.

If past sins are forgiven, you see friends and family
who awaited your coming with celebration planned;
but if sins need retribution, you are not free,
and angels escort you to learning sites and areas banned
called Purgatory and Hell by most religions -
where some have waiting hope and others damned.
It was some time before I asked to visit there,
for I first needed to explore heaven’s dominion,
and hopefully meet my role models so fair -
plus I was eager to learn how it was run.
What were the dynamics of keeping track of it all;
how did God communicate with each and every one?

Jesse took me to the primary control guidance center -
spiraling and circling were heavenly souls and angels -
looking outward reminding me of an air traffic tower.
I could see cameos of people against landscapes of hills -
cities, beaches, every imaginable view from kingdom come -
giving me impression of Internet linking web skills.

Somehow there was a knowing communion with our Creator
coupled with seeing, hearing, feeling all goings on -
response seemed to be dependent on spiritual love store
that was debited with loving thoughts, deeds, communication,
and credited when the opposite was in force -
resulting in a wail of shared lamentation.
When love was evident, you heard bells ring
giving weight to religious maxims, that opposite of love,
caused the universe to cry and love made it sing.
The trespasses and good were woven above
into an elaborate network pattern of connections
guiding synthesis through spiritual symbolic dove.

Why the pain and anguish to good people I asked Jesse?
For free will to exist, events must run its course -
or else there is no choice which is opposite of free,
and then God would be accused of force -
which is not the fertile ground for love,
so evolution is natural beginning at source.

And the spirit of God is in each and every thing
from inanimate to animate from beginning of time.
All nature, plants, animals, humans are evolving -
evolution and Divine Creation are same rhythm and rhyme.
Adam and Eve were made from the primordial ancestry dust,
but it’s not the rib but equal side that was prime.
Can’t we have interference with inhuman like Hitler,
and clarity over conflicting issues like abortion,
capital punishment, homosexuality, ethnic fear?
The answers are in your collective unconscious accumulation.
God is love for unborn, homosexuals, all races and creeds
inspiring maxim of love/protection to all for every generation.

A parent can’t walk, speak, and feel for their child.
The role is to teach, role model the best to be,
so that the growth and wonderment is order not wild -
yet also protect from force that enslave the free.
Evil must be cast out from the good -
banished by God’s spiritual authority.

How do we know for sure who is good and what is evil,
when demonic principalities are capable of chameleon ways?
Hitler was followed by masses: state and civil;
Jones led an innocent flock into a suicide craze.
America claimed the bible justified minority discrimination
to conquer Indians, overrule women, and keep slaves.
Clergy perpetuate indeterminate Biblical interpretation
distorting what was really taught by divine law -
creating customs and rules bound to fail under temptation -
claiming infallible authority to condemn those without flaw.
Instead of explaining semantics of multi-meanings,
innocent claimed to be sinners by religious bourgeois.

Evil is always known by the following;
prejudice, unequal law, discrimination,
hatred, bigotry, murder, lying,
adultery, idolatry, dishonor, truth distortion;
it can be covert or overt, venial or mortal –
most visible are genocide, abuse, and extortion.

But evil flourishes most when solutions aren’t found
for poverty, despair, suffering, and fairness -
sabotaging the helpless and hopeless to be bound
in a life that is denied pursuit of happiness.
Countries and religions camouflage evil
by not living up to the spirit that God can bless.
America’s Statue of Liberty represents what should be –
open borders welcoming all to freedoms shared –
pregnant taken care of as hosts of Divine Legacy –
life imprisonment for evil doers without death impaired –
blacks, homosexuals, all minorities held in equal standing –
Divine Law says love – not hypocrisy declared.

America’s youth, and the Catholic Church’s old age
started with the best of ideals and divine law –
countries and religions would imitate if acted like sage,
but laws are twisted and polluted with evil éclat –
Divine Word and Spirit overruled to serve demonic force
with goal to capture human souls and shout hurrah.

May I ask specific questions on my mind
that cause prejudicial censor on earth
like what about marriage unsigned
blessed by God at Adam & Eve’s birth –
church and society condemn this, call it sin?
What God joins together is of Divine Worth.
There may be a calling between men and women
for an entire lifetime or it may be brief,
or there may be blessed same women and men
and also multiple partners for simultaneous motif.
It is government and religion who calls God’s ways sin –
they have trespassed on righteousness of Divine Belief.

But what about divorce, adultery, and incest law?
Who did Eve also mate with if not a son?
For in the beginning heredity had no flaw,
but with progression of man, sin won.
When guided unions are blasphemed and abandoned,
Evil camouflages to distort what God’s love is based on.

But if a union is guided in a separate way,
and the relationship maintains spiritual love -
God’s blessings are ongoing – not fey.
Synthesis mystery linking one to another is known above
not to be judged or known by mortals on earth -
the pattern is ethereal like flight of a dove.
So polygamy is not wrong, but O.K.,
and divorce is approved of too –
is that what you say?
It’s not a matter of right or wrong, but God’s view
which is constantly overruled by government and religion –
it is the spirit of love that is true.

Please, I need examples to understand –
for it is hard for me to grasp.
I’m like the alien ward upon foreign land.
Changing agreement requires contract to unclasp
recognizing union is like growing children -
freedom the rule not poisonous asp.

What parent who truly loves their child
thwarts their growth with rigid rules?
Encouragement to be free but not wild,
independence cultivated to not be stubborn mules,
reading, learning from the wise and history
are the gifts to children – treasured jewels.
And if their child was not happy in one place,
would not the advice be to consider another?
Every loving parent desires to see happiness on child’s face.
A child is nurtured and protected by parent and other,
the spirit of love is the holiest of all;
that is only law imposed on sister and brother.

If a man first chose a celibate role
and then experienced physical love,
who dares to condemn God’s soul?
For each one of you is in communion with above;
men and women are not animals dictated by one instinct,
have a free will protean nature overlaid by God like a glove.

Would a parent say to a child at age ten stop growing?
Impossible you say, for the body has to seek more.
So it is with your mind and unlimited learning –
history, society, education, culture is an infinite store
and synthesized nature with God is omniscient,
ever evolving - spiraling onward, upward from its core.
It is not the multiplicity of mates that is sin,
but the abandonment and neglect of a commitment –
where one goes on a different path to win
while neglecting a vow of honor and development.
When love is honored for one or many,
blessings are bountiful for full enrichment.

Adultery and divorce disrespect the loved one
by covert deceit and extinction of the union.
Abraham did not commit adultery with Hagar who had a son.
Yet staying with a mate who abuses is a sin under Zion –
where love is sought from mind, heart, and soul is the law
for the family of God – each and every scion.

When mates need to transform
for reasons of love and need,
the spirit of wisdom will be the norm.
Caring prayers will be the seed
to let go and let God guide each path
to Divine Will like a musical reed.
Attention to evil increases principality power.
If a loved one stays in a depraved relationship,
all are threatened to become sick and sour.
Letting go to God with prayer for that kinship
is not divorce or abandonment but obedience
to nurturing and tough love friendship.

Christ was accused continuously of sin
for not adhering to laws of the time.
He was role modeling to God’s kin
that He came to divide universal clime,
rigidly set in un-empathetic law
against the spirit of Divine Sign.

Those who say are sinners, who are not,
are imitating Christ’s condemners,
for they twist the spirit of Divine Lot.
They who uphold minorities are the hearers
of the parables teaching love, tolerance, forgiveness.
They who condemn God’s Law are the besmearers.
One ethnic group will hate another;
one race will condemn different from them;
homosexuals will be persecuted by sister and brother;
a country will massacre helpless without requiem;
and all will claim the love of God guides their will,
with history repeating demonic success ongoing protem.

If homosexuality and transformation of marriage is not wrong,
then what other laws that are preached are untrue?
When sin is claimed as church song
for mandatory church, abstinence, fast for you
is distortion of Law of Love and Ten Commandments
sabotaging the Divine View.

What should we do about crime and punishment
with severe issues like murder, euthanasia, and abortion?
Do not kill does not mean protecting devilment,
self-defense in unjust war has absolution,
but when possible incarcerate enemy to live out life
letting God continue mysterious way of convolution.
Conception no matter how the source
perpetuates the hermitage of God’s plan –
protecting this child is the due course,
interfering with another’s life is the ban.
Yet, again the individual decides with free will -
God’s guidance is personal for each woman and man.

How does God punish and reward
all who are aware and unknowing?
Is heaven divided by a fjord?
Parents give time out to a child disobedient and destroying
the peace and harmony of a home for a length of time;
God does the same for all who are knowing.

Imagine contemporary time watching TV for a year
non-stop with no other human interaction,
Now exponentially multiply that and see a mirror,
for punishment is that isolation and subtraction
from all who loved God and each other.
Yet, in the immortal infinity, it is but a fraction.
The anguish of seeing yourself in everyone –
the good and the bad while being exiled,
and denied the countenance of our Divine One,
knowing you have to become again like a child –
this is the suffering of hell that is assigned
while the meek inherit heaven and the mild.

You were told to become like little children
who are guiltless of hatred, prejudice, all evil
so that your maturity would be a Godly citizen
without malice obeying Divine Law of God and civil.
Your free will chose to follow Divine Inspiration,
or be consumed by demonic boll weevil.

How long will a punishment last,
and is there not suffering and pain?
For those who served before demonic mast
and gave allegiance to principality reign,
they are doomed to experience afflictions caused
with duplicated scenario in hell’s domain.
Is hell then like Dante’s Inferno
where punishment fits the crime,
and are all judged from New York to Salerno
encompassing all directions throughout time?
Dante wrote the inspiration as you do now
in similar rhythm and rhyme.

I don’t have the courage like him
to visit that bottomless pit
and see those who courted sin,
at least not yet, so may we sit
and rest awhile in a serene place
where there is conviviality and wit?

I know just the place to cheer you –
a cabaret with music and song –
it’s always been your favorite view.
Instantly without fanfare or prolong,
like a twinkling star in a dark sky,
I was with an entertainment throng.
There were favorites of mine from my youth,
and some from my mature age.
I watched them from a front row booth,
as they sang and danced on the stage;
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Natalie Wood,
Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, John Denver – country sage.

Kate Smith, Lawrence Welk, Jimmy Durante,
Liberace, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire,
Judy Garland – and it was all free.
Talent filled the room to share
God’s gifts of music and laughter
that were a beatific prayer.

Are they always here to entertain?
Do they have homes to go too?
And in heaven does it ever rain?
Picture a bucket of water beautiful and blue;
now empty some into many cups –
same water but now a multi- view.
Picture the aurora borealis –
the soul is an energy source
that upon communion with Divine Bliss
can rest or exponentiate in force.
And just like God is everywhere,
the soul is synthesized with Almighty Course.

In a soul’s personal mansion space
creative design personifies heart’s desire –
rain, snow, sleet or sun shines on their place
with amenities like pool, hearth and fire.
We can visit yours after here if you like,
or maybe you want to hear angelic choir?

Jesse, are you saying mine is already here
even though I have not passed on?
Oh yes, let’s go first to my rest home so dear.
No sooner thought than there I saw my Parthenon.
Often I lulled myself to sleep imagining me there
where dreams and prayers rested upon.
To the west was an ocean blue,
east had Yosemite look with waterfall,
north snow capped mountains with rainbow hue,
and south was a menagerie mall.
The balconied terrace had pool, Jacuzzi
with roses weaved throughout all.

My loved dogs, Oscar, Cinder & Fawn –
whose vibrant colors sired their name –
were consorting with animals brawn –
lions, tigers, and bears – all tame;
and children were frolicking everywhere
with some adults playing baseball game.

Recessed back from terrace was workroom –
open air vista facing majestic view.
To my left was wall screen with power zoom
computer connected that linked heavenly view,
for even in my dreams I prayed to help
evermore in eternity what would ensue.
My desk was centered with computer to left,
and right wall had massive book library.
Even in heaven, without books, I would be bereft
for although I would meet my mentors in eternity,
it was their words on paper that inspired my soul,
and taught me to choose God’s will to be free.

Further back was vast bed with headboard facing ocean around
with sophisticated imagery to summon thunder, lightening, rain,
for I loved to sleep to nature symphonic sound.
From this higher floored view of heavenly claim,
a spiraling staircase descended to living quarters below –
kitchen, dining, parlor, guestroom domain.

For heaven is a mirror of earth
without pain, suffering, sin,
and a collective synthesis of all birth.
Food is abundant for all heavenly kin,
and Epicurean pleasures are bountiful -
Self-happiness is adoration to God – win/win.
On earth, sin is anti-God and neighbor –
disrespect to self and other –
elimination of God at core –
refusal to honor God’s family of sister/brother.
Pleasure – work – obedience is adoration to God
in all that we are – prayer to God/Holy Spirit/Mother.

Jesse, is there life throughout universe;
are there other planets like earth?
When our Creator began Creation Verse,
cosmos evolution was a Divine Birth
conceptualizing infinite galaxy
all with the genetics of Godly Worth.

Yes, there is life everywhere
with evolution process ongoing;
infinite is Divine Imprimatur –
eternally ever sowing.
The constant universally is:
Loving God Who Is All Knowing.
May I visit another planet with life
similar to humans as I know them?
Do they have pain, joy, and strife;
are there demons that condemn?
Has their evolution progressed further;
will humans ever meet them and when?

Yes, we can visit others if you like
who have life forms similar to you.
Demonic principalities roam everywhere to strike;
humans in next millennium will view.
Scientific achievements in space exploration
are progressing towards cosmic milieu.

And like before to the cabaret,
and then to my mansion retreat,
I was in a futuristic foyer
with flowers smelling sweet.
There were humanoid men, women, and children;
each had a backpack with a fold-down seat.
The appearance of which was soon evident,
for one suddenly rose straight into the air –
traversed a little way – sat on seat unbent.
They were different in look, all had long hair,
with sandals and tunic garments flowing,
and countenance savoir-faire.

I didn’t see vehicles of any kind,
nor vending machines for food.
Communication was by telepathic mind,
with a serene peaceful mood.
They were more evolved than humans on earth –
polite, sophisticated - an elegant brood.

No police authority roamed the place,
and multi-ethnic culture
was diversified on each face
role modeling earth’s hope and future.
Yet this wasn’t heaven but another planet
that obviously was peaceful and mature.
Jesse, how did they succeed
when we have failed so on earth?
They live their creed
of loving God and each other of worth;
truth, service, equality rule their domain
with respect for all life even before birth.

Children are taught respect and love,
problems are small, sins are venial,
allegiance to God first above,
and how to stand tall
by cultivating integrity and empathy
with equal consideration to all.

Is there a planet where the devil reigns
even more than my earth home;
may I see their hills and plains?
And again, in an instant, I did roam
to a place that made me shudder,
for wailing permeated all like foam.
Again, humanoid persons I saw
with different ethnic look,
but all seemed slaves to law
armed on a towering rook.
The masters were all of one color
pointing weapons toward every nook.

The young/old were hauling massive stones
building idols of demonic dominion
reminding me of earth’s historical tomes -
noticeably lacking was the warmth of a sun.
I did not need to see anymore,
evil had same pattern in every constellation.

But I was ready now to view hell’s domain
for a brief look at punishment to fit the crime –
a place where even I prayed for rain
on the fire, brimstone and grime.
Jesse knew my thoughts and there I was
seeing the lowest of all slime.
The horror was in excruciating scope
as I watched multi-views of vignettes
that spun like a kaleidoscope
with most unknown in silhouettes,
but one I recognized with sober anguish -
Hitler reliving as victim one deed in God’s gazettes.

For the entire span of victims life is repeated
with perpetrator now in innocent’s role
feeling every moment of persona cheated
to cleanse blot on fiend’s soul.
Every person trespassed on he would become
with no one praying shul.

For everything is recorded in book of life:
the bad, the ugly, and the good.
Nothing is forgotten – all remembered – joy and strife.
Soul united with God knows `not’ from `should’
with emissary guidance throughout brief earth span.
No one is an island, nor can hide spirit with hood.
If you turn your back on God’s Divine Will
of love as the highest law to live by,
and instead follow evil which is to kill
the Holy Spirit of life and die,
then punishment must be given outside heaven’s gate
by soul experiencing lessons in vivo that made God cry.

Jesse, when a soul is punished by reliving trespass,
who are the others that share the scene,
for most sins involve another or mass?
On earth you have a virtual reality machine
that simulates a multi-dimensional realm,
it is that process that is used for unclean.

Your life is recorded – every thought, word, deed
lives in Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s nooesphere,
available for retrieval by universal creed.
From the beginning all is crystal clear
demonstrated vividly by whom you call savants
who display knowledge of heavenly sphere.
Knowledge lives on through all genes
coupled with environment
and also telepathic means,
but greatest source is Divine Wonderment
Who knows all from beginning to infinity -
every nuance, feeling, and accomplishment.

How do the savants accomplish their skills
like the movie Rainman portrayed
and Lemsky’s piano playing thrills
in a blind, cerebral palsy body displayed?
Picture a piano with all its keys –
one must still touch it to release trills.

Humans have contrived so many words
to try and describe Divine Mystery,
but they are as ignorant as the birds
who follow God’s directory.
Big Bang, Black Box, Simultaneous Regeneration
are euphemisms that parallel Almighty Mastery.
Scientists want to prove God’s existence
imitating Tower of Babel.
Their efforts are nonsense
for they are incapable
as the ant in understanding human dimension.
God was, is, always will be unfathomable.

Jesse, some religious leaders on earth
advocate murder of homosexuals, abortionists, and minorities
claiming holy war perpetuated to each generation birth,
and there are Arian groups who issue hatred decrees.
How does one person stand up against evil claiming Divine Right?
Love, prayer, fasting, and truth exorcise demonic deeds.

Love has multi-dimensions as you well know.
Reading a story to a child is nurturing love,
tough demonstrated by police arresting foe,
hiding Jews during holocaust was transcended from above.
Underground Railroad during Civil War was love in action;
civil disobedience is symbolized with spirit peace dove.
Attention reinforces is the norm to remember,
tough-love/extinction censor negative.
Television mesmerizes you with repetitive gear,
incarceration separates offender from where society live.
Speaking out against hypocrisy best role modeled by Christ
opposing religious who too claimed divine narrative.

Remember always that God is with you
and knows the mind, heart, soul of everyone.
Living a life following Divine Law is highest view
commanded to every parent, daughter, and son.
All inherited this invocation impressed in their soul.
You follow Him, and let Him handle what will ensue.

Jesse, what about latest in science endocrinology,
continuous fervor over birth control, artificial insemination,
and claims that science is imitating demonology?
Birth control is not extermination;
experiments disrespectful to human/animal life do not honor God;
aiding potential spirit is complimentary to Divine Creation.
Jesse, what about our laws that seem profane
like a prosecutor who knows defendant innocent,
yet continues to accuse in guilty vein,
or a public defender will advocate no internment
for someone who is guilty of crime?
We have a judicial system, not blind, but unsane.

America has an underground revolution
of solos marching to divine drum,
finding ways to protest in revelation
of higher universal hum.
If any statute makes a mockery of Divine Law,
soul conscience aspires to honor family sum.

You have famous artists modeling higher good:
Jean Houston, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg are three,
but most are covert with anonymous hood
working to protect and keep all free.
For though church and state have fallen far short,
the ideals and spirit are in Divine Decree.
Jesse, what about war like in Sorejevo?
Should America police other nations,
are we our brother’s keeper or not?
Holocaust history keep alive lamentations.
Always think small, big and great
to make wise decisions for all generations.

If your child was threatened, how would you feel,
what would you do for your family?
If you were the group others wanted to kill,
wouldn’t you plead for safety?
Loving God and loving your neighbor as self
often calls for life-giving bravery.

Jesse, how can we correct ills of America now,
and what are our biggest sins of the past;
what contemporary trespasses are considered fowl?
Theft of Indian lands, black enslavement, women as minority cast
a perpetual legacy of unfair justice and suffering
coupled with homosexual discrimination are sins that last.
It is no different now than from before.
Love of God and other must be followed by one/all -
in every individual, family, nation’s corps.
Respect, empathy, allegiance to Divine Law stands tall.
Individual to church to state is accountable
to hear and respond to God’s call.

Jesse, what about education for our youth?
We have become such a materialistic society,
lamentations are that young are uncouth.
Children aren’t taught `basics’, resulting in notoriety.
They don’t understand the process of `beginning, middle, end’
in spiritual, survival, technical, and character sobriety.

Children should be taught nature’s ways,
seasonal sowing and abundant harvest
to preserving for lean days.
Animal husbandry teaches sex best.
The academics of reading, writing, arithmetic
taught with warrior defense skills and spiritual rest.
Equality of teaching should be the norm
for male, female, and all minorities.
Drama, art, athletics, technical skills will form
empathy with multi-capabilities.
Adolescents will be inspired with Peace Corps duties
graduating to teenage military service abilities.

Jesse, what can churches do to help society?
Service should be their primary role
instead of ceremonial pomp egocentricity.
If every church had a congregation goal
of on-site medical clinic, shelter, economic help, food/clothing
coupled with child-care center/youth activities, bells would toll.

Alas, religious focus is on their structure,
as if a building perpetuates a divine ministry,
dismissing the widow’s mite who gains favor.
Mind, heart, soul is what God likes to see -
spirit like Corrie Ten Boom and Oscar Schindler.
It is action of love not facade that does endure.
Jesse, what about free choice
for drugs, euthanasia, abortion?
In the garden, free will was the voice;
`the cock crowed thrice’ in face of temptation.
Freedom given by God to choose, government’s role same;
`lead horse to water doesn’t result in drink’ is lamentation.

If the focus was on help during despair,
guarantee of counseling, assistance, fairness,
individuals crying out would know you care,
achieve a desired goal of luminese
that conception to death is God ordained
with free will choice the ambassadress.

Pro-life advocates need to empathize,
direct their service to the here and now,
care for abandoned children on the rise
who are deemed less sacred than the cow.
When orphanages are empty of every soul,
then champions for life can take a bow.
Jesse, it’s time for me to go home
to work with universal sister and brother,
I know we will often roam
to learn more about loving each other,
adoring God with whole heart, mind, soul,
caring/sharing with one another.

Thus, I am back at my home atrium
seeding work and prayer I know well –
caring and sharing life sum
in speech and writings that tell
of the greater glory of God –
His love in eternal Noel.
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