Scriptural Reasoning

‘And they multiplied exceedingly’ ..
Exponential growth, the oppressors controlling and yanking the horses’ reins lose their control as the wild horses of Nature reclaim the power. Now, and at last, the world can start again and in a distinctly different way.🌅

No one needs to prove anything. Just be yourself without self-loathing. Love yourself whatever anyone else does. Hate no one, loving everyone whatever they may do. Try to stop them if they are doing harm but without violence. Self-defence and arresting someone is not violence. Feel sorry for people doing ridiculous things, which is a way of loving them. Hatred never works. Always be learning from Nature, from other creatures besides human beings : from dogs and cats, birds, little insects, from all of the World’s creature kingdom. They all have such a natural nobility and they bring so much joy and inherent richness to our lives simply by being themselves. Unlike humanity they feign nothing. They can always help us reorientate when we feel we’ve lost our natural connection. They can help us all be the best of what it is to be human. All of Nature can revive and inspire us - also, trees and flowers, everything that grows. Also, not to forget that what we deem to be inanimate nature - rocks, beaches, landscapes and seascapes, soothing nightscapes and stirring dayscapes are an essential part of our world to wonder at with joy and fascination, all critically part of the creation we are also part of. All this experience and emotive response can fuse in us so we are all a conscious part of all being. All of this has the capacity to bring out our love and kindness, our inner joy and a deeper sense of happiness. This is not only serious but also dense in fun and humour. We can appreciate so many animals that help us also feel and enjoy the comedy of creation - the braying of a donkey, the quirky movements of birds. So much of creature-creation can bring us deep joy and enable the lightness of comedy to fill our lives. We can all be vessels to receive the full breadth of light’s spectrum. Please let us all be open-hearted and open-minded receivers, not needing to restrain ourselves but just allowing ourselves and all life to wholly be.

‘Spiraling mid-ascent into clear blue
Azure without walls or clouds or moons,
Gull-dance without a floor: aerial happiness,
Neither sowing nor reaping above the waves.
There I left him wash away from the rocks,
Their foam and away the ash at sea level.
Rejoins through plankton and kelp and crab.
The sash is the sky of mirrored surfaces
And those birds from the cliffs above
Soar away from my ritual of a last thought.

‘Dearest, precious Israel and all Israelis, I appeal to you, not as a Jew, but as a grateful Abrahamic brother in the faith of the forefathers and mothers, by whom we gentiles gain adoption. The Ishmaelites are all around you and in your midst and truly in you, they are not Amelek. But it is time for your own sakes to return to civil society of your own making. Jabotinski was very clear, folllwing the demonstration of strength there must be the greater strength strength demonstrated in conciliation, furthering the Abrahamic Covensnt by which as half brothers they have had shared access with you from the beginning. I would enjoin you. Yours is a future together with great powers of the Misdle East is your destiny. Through friendship only shall you flourish as they flourish with you. But you already know this is so. Please put a moratorium on the warrior state you have become; your destiny is to create a verdant Midlke East with you jshmaelite brothers and not a few Christians.

‘There is a curious notion, that language betrays its objects.’

‘The moment a community is told, in God’s name, that they are most excellent, therefore most favored, the decline into idolatry is swift.’

Isaiah 33

:7
הֵ֚ן אֶרְאֶלָּ֔ם צָעֲק֖וּ חֻ֑צָה מַלְאֲכֵ֣י שָׁל֔וֹם מַ֖ר יִבְכָּיֽוּן׃
Hark! The Arielites cry aloud;
Shalom’s messengers weep bitterly.

:8
נָשַׁ֣מּוּ מְסִלּ֔וֹת שָׁבַ֖ת עֹבֵ֣ר אֹ֑רַח הֵפֵ֤ר בְּרִית֙ מָאַ֣ס עָרִ֔ים לֹ֥א חָשַׁ֖ב אֱנֽוֹשׁ׃
Highways are desolate,
Wayfarers have ceased.
A covenant has been renounced,
Cities rejected
Mortals despised.

:9
אָבַ֤ל אֻמְלְלָה֙ אָ֔רֶץ הֶחְפִּ֥יר לְבָנ֖וֹן קָמַ֑ל הָיָ֤ה הַשָּׁרוֹן֙ כָּֽעֲרָבָ֔ה וְנֹעֵ֥ר בָּשָׁ֖ן וְכַרְמֶֽל׃ {ס}
The land is wilted and withered;
Lebanon disgraced and moldering,
Sharon is become like a desert,
And Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

Isaiah 29

:24
וְיָדְע֥וּ תֹֽעֵי־ר֖וּחַ בִּינָ֑ה וְרוֹגְנִ֖ים יִלְמְדוּ־לֶֽקַח׃ {ס}
And the confused shall acquire insight
And grumblers accept instruction.

30

:1
ה֣וֹי בָּנִ֤ים סֽוֹרְרִים֙ נְאֻם־יְהֹוָ֔ה לַעֲשׂ֤וֹת עֵצָה֙ וְלֹ֣א מִנִּ֔י וְלִנְסֹ֥ךְ מַסֵּכָ֖ה וְלֹ֣א רוּחִ֑י לְמַ֛עַן סְפ֥וֹת חַטָּ֖את עַל־חַטָּֽאת׃
Oh, disloyal children!
—declares GOD—
Making plans
Against My wishes,
Weaving schemes
Against My will,
Thereby piling
Guilt on guilt—

:11

ס֚וּרוּ מִנֵּי־דֶ֔רֶךְ הַטּ֖וּ מִנֵּי־אֹ֑רַח הַשְׁבִּ֥יתוּ מִפָּנֵ֖ינוּ אֶת־קְד֥וֹשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ {ס}
Leave the way!
Get off the path!
Let us hear no more
About the Holy One of Israel!”
…

:15
כִּ֣י כֹֽה־אָמַר֩ אֲדֹנָ֨י יֱהֹוִ֜ה קְד֣וֹשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל בְּשׁוּבָ֤ה וָנַ֙חַת֙ תִּוָּ֣שֵׁע֔וּן בְּהַשְׁקֵט֙ וּבְבִטְחָ֔ה תִּֽהְיֶ֖ה גְּבֽוּרַתְכֶ֑ם וְלֹ֖א אֲבִיתֶֽם׃
For thus said my Sovereign GOD,
The Holy One of Israel,
“You shall triumph by stillness and quiet;
Your victory shall come about
Through calm and confidence.”
But you refused.

:18
וְלָכֵ֞ן יְחַכֶּ֤ה יְהֹוָה֙ לַחֲנַנְכֶ֔ם וְלָכֵ֥ן יָר֖וּם לְרַחֶמְכֶ֑ם כִּֽי־אֱלֹהֵ֤י מִשְׁפָּט֙ יְהֹוָ֔ה אַשְׁרֵ֖י כׇּל־ח֥וֹכֵי לֽוֹ׃ {פ}
Truly, GOD is waiting to show you grace,
Truly, to arise and pardon you.
For GOD is a God of justice;
Happy are all who wait, in turn.

:20
וְנָתַ֨ן לָכֶ֧ם אֲדֹנָ֛י לֶ֥חֶם צָ֖ר וּמַ֣יִם לָ֑חַץ וְלֹא־יִכָּנֵ֥ף עוֹד֙ מוֹרֶ֔יךָ וְהָי֥וּ עֵינֶ֖יךָ רֹא֥וֹת אֶת־מוֹרֶֽיךָ׃
My Sovereign will provide for you meager bread and scant water. Then your Guide will no more be ignored, but your eyes will watch your Guide;

:21
וְאׇזְנֶ֙יךָ֙ תִּשְׁמַ֣עְנָה דָבָ֔ר מֵאַחֲרֶ֖יךָ לֵאמֹ֑ר זֶ֤ה הַדֶּ֙רֶךְ֙ לְכ֣וּ ב֔וֹ כִּ֥י תַאֲמִ֖ינוּ וְכִ֥י תַשְׂמְאִֽילוּ׃
and, whenever you deviate
to the right or to the left,
your ears will heed the command
from behind you: “This is the road; follow it!”

Genesis 49

שִׁמְע֥וֹן וְלֵוִ֖י אַחִ֑ים כְּלֵ֥י חָמָ֖ס מְכֵרֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

Simeon and Levi are a pair;
Their weapons are tools of lawlessness.

בְּסֹדָם֙ אַל־תָּבֹ֣א נַפְשִׁ֔י בִּקְהָלָ֖ם אַל־תֵּחַ֣ד כְּבֹדִ֑י כִּ֤י בְאַפָּם֙ הָ֣רְגוּ אִ֔ישׁ וּבִרְצֹנָ֖ם עִקְּרוּ־שֽׁוֹר׃

Let not my person be included in their council,
Let not my being be counted in their assembly.
For when angry they slay a man,
And when pleased they maim an ox.

אָר֤וּר אַפָּם֙ כִּ֣י עָ֔ז וְעֶבְרָתָ֖ם כִּ֣י קָשָׁ֑תָה אֲחַלְּקֵ֣ם בְּיַעֲקֹ֔ב וַאֲפִיצֵ֖ם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ {פ}

Cursed be their anger so fierce,
And their wrath so relentless.
I will divide them in Jacob,
Scatter them in Israel.

‘As the crow flies” over hill and dale,
Announcing Halloween and all manner of decay
We see through the grey the notes of late
As the straw breaks in the wind, the smoldering
Wick blown out; weary bones seek their rest
If not their resting place and guard the song
In their dying hearts: “Caw, caw, caw!”
Serenades them, consoles them
With the prospects of darkness.
“My soul is soot”, darkened from the war;
A shade that will never give way to morning,
For them I have no more tears, since tomorrow
I will weep again for others newly buried.
And the great of the earth too are afraid,
Testings that always go wrong until their story
Changes hearts and minds; the obvious
Lesson is not in their “teachable moment”.