“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. Lights in the World 12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. 14 Do all things without grumbling or disputing, 15 that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, 16 holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. 17 Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. 18 Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me. Timothy and Epaphroditus 19 I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you. 20 For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. 21 For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. 22 But you know Timothy’s proven worth, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel. 23 I hope therefore to send him just as soon as I see how it will go with me, 24 and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself will come also. 25 I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need, 26 for he has been longing for you all and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill. 27 Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. 28 I am the more eager to send him, therefore, that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious. 29 So receive him in the Lord with all joy, and honor such men, 30 for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was lacking in your service to me.” (Phil 2:1-30 ESV)

Middle ground resume-wise, the strange Genius of boots-on-the-ground readiness and backdrop, matches all dreamer’s and designer’s intentional output with unintended backdrops of Support. Entire families off-limits, until: until the middle-of-the-road working class Gladsome Friend beckons, belongs, becomes. Like a groundswell of those Things that Spell Victory, each of us in our respective Perches is Called to do the Mitzvah (good deed) unto a Mindset Unknown, Out There, and we… we this mind’s servant, harbor no preening or condescending, looking down the nose, at what digs, what abodes, what poverty-cursed, stricken Climate this new friend belongs in.

Belongs, because we are too rich for that blood, to some. To some, it is “obvious” that powers-that-be bless this one out of the rabble, with their playwright, with their commodified stories, with their scientific Exhortation and Studied Freedoms to live in grand Freedoms most pondered, observed, Phenomenologically-Appreciated.

If we are a phenomenon, let it be Understood, we are such only to a higher class of Being, one Educated and Tutored with some divine Access unto storylines that spell twenty-years of sweat-of-the-brow Education to others. Others live their whole lives in the relative dark about some Fact or Missive, and these… such as these… the spirit lays Heavy on such as these. Because they were like us with a child: note the Advanced Stages of reasoning, coupled with the utter naivete around Facets that require a year, a decade, or more to Mature in and Revolve into Being around.

The gentlefolk, man and woman, who coddled us a bit, who urged us with lightest grin on the face to “Straighten the back”, who voted for us even as parent and church was in utterly Patient Prayer that One Day… Some Day… even such as we ourselves would lurch forth from the womb of said middle-road Friends, and cajole and exhort and testify unto God’s Grace.