“A Place To Reflect” [Reflections on Ralph D. Sawyer's Translation of One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies - Battle Tactics of Chinese Warfare - #1B] (Mk.11:24;Matt.5:43-48; John 3:16; 20:28; Rom.12:21; 1 Cor.15:24-28)

As I read item number one,
One Hundred, Sawyer’s thought becomes
A place for me to think, reflect,
On “Jesus’ stomping evil” – yet.

What’s even more is setting there –
Five thousand years where people tear
The countryside apart in wars;
Diverse terrain; books keeping score –

While thought-providers reflect on
Events around, what’s come and gone;
It’s like a crisis-hospital
As training-context general –

For people learning counseling –
The cases form a steady stream
Of need demanding to be met;
So too with China’s wars – forget –

A place like my home – prairie town,
No mountains, population ’round;
We export folks to other space;
We’d barely scrape up one good case.

I had not viewed a region thus –
That each has some unique-type fuss
Where over long-term we can see
The things they’ve learned – their “Specialty”.

So thank You Lord, for thoughtful folk,
Who, over time, learned war, and wrote
Their tomes with care about their past,
Where folks and lands-diverse are vast.

For it’s a microcosm’s place,
Reflecting vastness of deep space,
Our home in coming centuries;
But more than that, theologies.

Not theory – much more practical –
Your life, strategic, tactical;
As You defeat the evil one –
Last task You have until You’re done.

For we as humans have a need
To learn of “War by loving deed”;
You taught us in Your homeland-space,
Inviting us as human race –

To join You on Your Kingdom-layer,
Through Scripture, action, constant prayer,
To bide in You – Field General –
On task which seems ephemeral –

But concrete is, I’ve come to see,
Involving common folks like me
In larger scope and scale of task,
Which frames Your gifts, for which we ask –

Once they’re received – then we try on –
Show how to use in world gone wrong;
Lord, thanks for this auspicious start
To learning this – and what’s our part.

Thanks Lord for this.

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