“2 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Phil 2:1-11 ESV)

Stark cubbyhole reality, present and accounted for yet tried and tested: are you Worrisome? Are you staring down a Broadsheet unwritten upon? Where is the Impetus to drive forward amidst the Impetus scarcely to have a figure-ground metaphor, a backdrop, a Setting? We scarcely have a Metaphor or Figure-Ground backdrop, only as well we scarcely frighten around what we Do Have, the cubbyhole stark and filled with alacrity, our Patience and our Diligence to Thrive in Expansive cocoon, because we Thrive under the duress or under the ways and means called Comprehension.

We comprehend and we Thrive, because in utero or machined lockstep, in machined lock and chain, in machined padlock so Pertinent and Related to our status and our very Being. Think on Christ, who from His perch atop the Hill of Calvary, saw all the world yes Forgiven, but all His hopes of being spared the axe, Denied. Therefore in the sickbay or in the healthsome Gambit, the healthsome Furious Refusal to concede to banal boring hegemony or frustrated hindrance, we are Awakened to do our deeds Pleasant and Copacetic, though all in a mirrored little outlook, but in that Outlook found Expansive and of Glad Tidings. We are Glad, and Awakened, and Brushing Off the hindrance or the frustrated and banal tedium.

After all, it is a Locked Posture now Owned: God’s place on His Cross is Locked and frustrated and enigmatically frozen shut, but He therein first Dreamed and stepped into the skyward walk, the dance unto Soon Ascension, only this: that first a little Love and constrained but in the constraint found Expansive, for the disciple and observer to Witness and be Healthily Upbuilt therein.

Therefore the storyline is not “Even though He had a Cross, Christ was expansive and filled with discovery…”, but “Precisely in His Cross, Christ was energized and Created Anew to live into the Hour…”. The Cross… to us it looks wooden and stark, but wrapped up in that Image is an Experiential facet, that it Carries us through to Tomorrow. It carries us, because all comers can relate and ascend to that small but inwardly expansive Perch, in any career, occupied with any Purchase or Good Deeds, filled with any Loving Deeds or Healthsome Rapport with the folks gathered around… all of us, like that Centurion who said “do not follow me home, but just say the word and it will be done…”, we are already in the Vista of what the Babe in manger is bringing about, fighting spirit and constrained wrestle, opening divine, copacetic Place and Scope small to fight within.