R.E. Slater - The Woman Who Tends

Illustration by R.E. Slater and ChatGPT

The Woman Who Tends

by R.E. Slater and ChatGPT

There's so many different reasons why we need old trees.

They sequester carbon. They create habitat that younger

trees cannot provide. [Aesthetically], they carry a unique

beauty in their old age. - Beth Moon, photographer

What saith the woman

  who tendeth another’s garden -
  whose hands nurture what she does not own,
  whose labor blooms in another’s name?

She speaks in the language of soil,
  in the patience of seasons that do not remember her.
Her fingers learn the roots of foreign things,
  tracing their thirst into the borrowed ground.

Morning finds her before the early light has settled,
  as shadow among the soils calling her kin.
She waters what will not bear her name,
  prunes what will never speak her story.

Yet, there is a knowing

  beneath her tending care -

The receiving earth does not ask
  who owns the seed.
But ingests
  what is given.

And in the quiet

  between wind and breath
she feels within the quieting earth -
  a loosening, an understanding.

Neither of duty,
  nor of boundary -

But of calling,

  as living soul to living soul.

For what is a garden
  but a crossing of lives -
root into soil,
hand into growth,
self into what is not-self?

The toiler gathers no harvest for herself,
  yet something within her ripens -

Not fruit,
not flower,
but a widening of understanding.

A slow re-awakening

  that care is its own belonging.

And when the evening shadows

  lengthen across the spreading beds,
and last lights linger on leaf and stem,
  there, she pauses -

not as owner,
not as stranger,
but as living witness.

Where garden and gardener

  for a moment,

answer one to the other -

  We are connected

  by our entangling roots.

R.E. Slater and ChatGPT

April 10, 2026

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Author's Notes

The garden is more than metaphor. It is a site of processual becoming in which reality is encountered as a relational field; soulful identity is understood as participation; and meaning arises through lived encounter. Together, these several elements suggest a form of lived, and embodied, processual realism.

- R.E. Slater

Attribution Notes

The opening thematic and stylistic inspiration is drawn from the authored work, "Trees and Other Entanglements," by Tasneem Khan, whose sensibilities are also reflected in the documentary work associated with the same title.

The initial four lines are a creative reconstruction inspired by Khan’s prose style and are not presented as a direct quotation.

The poem itself is an original composition, written in the mood, cadence, and thematic field of Khan’s work. Its visual and narrative interpretations give particular attention to themes of displacement and belonging, labor and invisibility, relational identity, and quiet interior of rupture and transformation.

- R.E. Slater

Trees and Other Entanglements

HBO Documentary

"Trees and Other Entanglements," is an 2023 HBO Original Documentary by filmmaker Irene Taylor  showcasing the deeply human tale of mankind's relationship with the natural world - and with one another. It premiered on December 12 on (HBO) Max. In the film Taylor explores the deep, symbiotic relationship between humans and trees through several interconnected stories, including a bonsai master, a photographer, a mother protecting forests, and a man planting saplings, all while weaving in personal narratives about family, loss, and survival - including the director's own struggle with Alzheimer's.

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Tasneem Khan Bio

Tasneem Khan is a biologist, educator, photographer, and interdisciplinary storyteller whose work moves between ecology, art, and experiential learning. Trained in marine zoology, she has spent over a decade developing programs in conservation, environmental education, and creative science communication.

Khan’s work does not sit neatly within a single category. She is not only an “author” in the conventional sense, but rather a field-based thinker and creative practitioner whose writing emerges from lived ecological engagement. This helps explain why her voice often reads less like conventional prose and more like compressed, contemplative poetry shaped by environment and experience.

Her career includes significant field-based work with the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Environmental Team, where she helped design and lead immersive ecological learning initiatives.

Khan is also a co-founder of EARTH CoLab, an initiative focused on outdoor education, ecological awareness, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Across her writing, photography, and educational projects, she explores themes of:

• human-nature relationships
• place-based learning
• ecological consciousness
• relational and experiential knowledge

Her literary work, including Trees and Other Entanglements, reflects this same sensibility, blending scientific awareness with poetic, reflective prose.

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Links & Presence

• 🌐 EARTH CoLab (project site): http://earthcolab.com
• 📷 Instagram (creative + writing): https://www.instagram.com/t.a.s.n.e.e.m.k.h.a.n/
• 📝 Author/profile page: https://jlrexplore.com/authors/tasneem-khan
• 🌿 Nature inFocus (articles & photography): https://www.natureinfocus.in/author/tasneem-khan

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Where to Read Her

Here is a thoughtful entry sequence, moving from ecological grounding to literary expression.

1. Foundational Voice (Ecology & Reflection)

• Nature writing and essays via Nature inFocus
  → https://www.natureinfocus.in/author/tasneem-khan

These pieces show:

• her observational discipline
• her sensitivity to landscape
• the roots of her later literary tone

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2. Interdisciplinary & Reflective Writing

• Author page and contributions:
  → https://jlrexplore.com/authors/tasneem-khan
• Collaborative/essay platforms (e.g., Dark ’n’ Light):
  → https://darknlight.substack.com

Here you begin to see:

• ecological thought blending with philosophy
• short-form reflective prose approaching poetry

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3. Core Literary Work

• Trees and Other Entanglements

This is where everything converges:

• ecology becomes metaphor
• metaphor becomes identity
• identity becomes relational inquiry

Read this slowly. It is not plot-driven in the conventional sense. It is atmosphere-driven.

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4. Ongoing Creative Presence

• Instagram (visual + textual fragments):
  → https://www.instagram.com/t.a.s.n.e.e.m.k.h.a.n/

This functions almost like:

• a living notebook
• a stream of images + thoughts
• fragments that echo her larger themes

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R.E. Slater - Between the Tomb and Morning

An olive tree in the morning planted for peace and endurance

Between the Tomb and Morning

by R.E. Slater and ChatGPT

Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore.
- Isaiah 2:4

God invites to the home of peace

and guides whom He wills to a straight path.

- Qur’an 10:25

Peace I leave with you;

my peace I give to you.

- John 14:27

Across the broken earth

its stones weigh upon the ground.

Cities burn -
where prophets once walked

whether in Iran,
or Lebanon,
in Israel,
or America.

Fear speaks louder than hope,

and grief has learned

too many names.

This is not a distant sorrow

far removed from memory -

It is the same stony soils
where Abraham learned to listen,
where Moses trembled before the fire,
where Mary said yes,
where Jesus was crucified,
where the call to prayer still rises -
over broken streets and griefs.

The same dust
that tasted blood
tastes it again

too often

too many times.

And still Easter comes
And cries remains.

Allahu Akbar - "God is greater"

than the violence we make.

Shema Yisrael - "The Lord is One"

even when we hate and divide.

Χριστός ἀνέστη! - "Christ is risen!"

for in hope, or what's left,

life refuses the final word of death.

Together, these are not

competing truths -

but ancient truths echoing

a deeper call

that God is not owned

by any one nation;

not contained
nor confined

by hardened beliefs

that God is not triumph,

but interruption -

not certainty,

but question.

The question?

What does it mean
to have God present

without violence -

without wound -

without tears?

The Holy One -

known by many names -

still meets us

in our wounds

the Risen One bears our scars -
the Merciful One knows our frailty -

the Eternal One calls us to remember.

Even as the voice of his Spirit

moves through

synagogue, mosque, and church:

Return.

Remember.

Become new.

Learn to love again.

These ancient words

have been spoken
into every divided land

across the earth:

“Peace be with you.”

“Shalom.”

“Salaam.”

Hear their summons.

Repent their misuse.

Lay down the stones.
Step from the lifeless tombs

  we have made for one another.

Let resurrection
be stronger than revenge.

Let rahma mercy -

interrupt memory.

Let tzedek justice -

be guided by compassion.

Let agape love -

outlast remembrance.

For if God is One -
then no people are meant for division.

If God is Merciful -
then no life is beyond care.

If Christ is risen -
then no grave is the end.

 - But neither is peace automatic.

It must be chosen

again

and again

and again

and again.

So this Easter morning,
in a world of hatred and fear

do not deny the darkness.

But let us each walk into it
carrying a different light.

A light known in many tongues,
yet born of the same heavy longing -

that death will not have the final word.

Let us together repeat -

even here,
even now:

God is greater.

God is One.

Christ is risen.

Let the world

begin again.

R.E. Slater and ChatGPT

April 5, 2026

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Evening to morning. Let there be rest. Let their be peace.

A Prayer for Torn Worlds

A Tri-Faith Easter Meditation for a World in Conflict

by R.E. Slater and ChatGPT

God is Love. - I John 4.8

O God of many names -

  God of Abraham,
  God of mercy and memory,
  God revealed in compassion and قرب (nearness),

  God known in Christ as love enduring -

We gather in a world still trembling.

Where fear divides,
where anger hardens,
where violence speaks too quickly
and peace too slowly.

You who are One -
  teach us to see one another
  beyond the names we fear.

You who are Merciful -
  soften what has become unyielding in us.

You who are Living -
  breathe again into what feels lost, buried, or beyond repair.

In lands torn by history and hurt -
whether Iran, Lebanon, Israel, or America -
  let remembrance become wisdom,
  not weapon.

  Let justice be guided by compassion.
  Let truth be spoken without hatred.
  Let grief find its voice without becoming vengeance.

And where hearts have grown weary,
plant again the quiet courage of peace.

As Christ passed through death into life,
as Your word calls all people toward peace -
so move among us now:

not above our divisions,
but within them.

Not instead of us,
but through us.

Until swords are laid down,
until neighbors are no longer strangers,
until peace is no longer spoken as hope alone -
but lived.

Amen.

R.E. Slater and ChatGPT

April 5, 2026

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Da Vinci's Sacred Unveiling

The Last Supper (c. 1555-1562) by Juan de Juanes

The Last Supper (c. 1555-1562) by Juan de Juanes. A Spanish Renaissance work found at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. The consecration of Jesus' broken body is epitomized in his holding a broken piece of bread above his head to be shared with his twelve apostles before his crucifixion. This event became one of the major sacraments of the church commemorating Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection enunciating God's salvation to humanity through Christ.

Sacred Unveiling

Beneath stilled hands a shattered silence lies,

its sudden truths loosed before startled eyes.
Divinity clothed in brush's shadows sealed,

to souls laid bare before love's pledged reveal.

'Ere whispered wounds flying swift as steeds,
on each face lay wonder, prayer, or appeal.
At bewildered commit of fleshly Bread and Cup,

soon bereft a God bowed to human crypt.

Within pigment, line, and hue, a secret sleeps,
of waking worlds crushed on breaking day.

Where hung no mere mortal posture beaten,
broke in heart and wounded, bloodied body.

Eve's sacred table brightly burns its sorrow,

its tender grace ne'er remit its living light.

No throne nor crown was cast that night,

but selfless love poured a bursting wineskin.

R.E. Slater

February 2, 2026

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Sacred Bloodlines

*The Holy Grail ‘neath ancient Roslin waits.
The blade and chalice guarding o’er Her gates.
Adorned in masters’ loving art, She lies.
She rests at last beneath the starry skies....

Deeper than crypt or cloistered stone,
a heavenly Grail awakens to flesh and bone.
Not cup nor crown, but breathing, mortal line,
entwining sacred blood soaked in human tears.

In Sophie’s eyes the ages softly shine,

living truths no tomb nor code can bind.

Of One abidingly gifted unceasing love,

in redemption's endless lineage of hope.

Neither vault nor veil can secret love's lore,

where unguarded hearts had fled their tombs.

Flown on sudden wings from crypt to cross,

born resurrection's covenanted renewal.

Sacred bloodlines flow on mercy's dare,

with every soul's broken, daily sacrifice.

Whose holy fires no darkness limits,

very immortals, living Sacraments!

R.E. Slater

February 2, 2026

*verse by Dan Brown, Da Vinci Code

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Leonardo da Vinci's, The Last Supper (c. 1495 - 1498)

Sacred Light

The broken bread ‘neath lamplit rafters lies,
with cup of sorrow mirroring all mortal cries.
No hidden sign painted upon the supper's seal,
but waking hearts laid bare to love's unveil.

Silent murmurs ran across disciples' breaths,

God's Word incarnate sharing life and death.
Whose kingdom births whenever souls do care,

to serve, heal, or bless, either friend or foe.

No cipher traced in pigment, gold, or frame,
yet worlds ignite at hearing Mercy’s name.
In Eucharist feast that gathers love and loss,

inviting Christ as Lamb and Living Cross.

R.E. Slater

February 2, 2026

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FRANCE-ART-MUSEUM-LOUVRE-JOCONDE

The Code Of Da Vinci

The Code of Da Vinci
Exists not in the pictures,
Or even in his works on walls...
It is in nature of his gravitation
To this, and may be strange reflection
Of his big and wonderful forever world.

The only smile on face of Jioconda,
And you feel there-here magic of the time,
When he did live...
But what are you feeling also?
She is alive, she is living girl
In real!

Lyudmila Purgina

Poetic Notes

*Jioconda (more commonly spelled Gioconda or La Gioconda) is another name for the famous painting, "Mona Lisa," created by Leonardo da Vinci in the early 16th century.

Lisa del Giocondo is the woman widely believed to be the subject of the portrait. She was the wife of a Florentine merchant named Francesco. "La Gioconda" literally means "the Giocondo lady."

The name also carries a poetic double meaning. In Italian, gioconda is related to gioia (joy), so it can suggest “the joyful one” or “the serene one.” This linguistic nuance subtly echoes the painting’s most famous feature - her enigmatic, gentle smile.

So when the poem speaks of “Jioconda,” it is invoking both the historical woman behind the portrait and the symbolic presence of the Mona Lisa herself - a figure who has come to embody mystery, interior life, and enduring artistic vitality.

Analysis

The poem proposes that the so-called “Code of Da Vinci” is not a hidden cipher embedded in symbols, diagrams, or secret meanings within Leonardo’s paintings. Instead, it relocates the idea of a “code” away from puzzles and toward a deeper existential source. The poet suggests that Leonardo’s true mystery lies not in what he concealed, but in how Leonardo related to the world itself.

This “code” is described as a kind of gravitational pull toward reality - a profound sensitivity to nature, humanity, time, and beauty. Leonardo’s genius arises from an exceptional openness to existence, a way of seeing that allows the fullness of the world to impress itself upon his inner life. His art, therefore, is not the origin of meaning but the reflection of a vast, attentive consciousness already alive within him.

The poem focuses especially on the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa as a point of contact between past and present. Rather than functioning as a riddle to be solved, the smile becomes a living bridge across time. Through it, viewers feel the presence of Leonardo’s era and, more importantly, the continuing vitality of his way of seeing.

The poem’s boldest claim is that the woman in the portrait is “alive.” This does not mean biological life, but a sustained sense of presence. The painting carries interiority, emotion, and being forward into the present moment. Great art, in this vision, does not merely depict life; it participates in life by transmitting vitality itself.

Taken together, the poem reframes Leonardo’s legacy as fundamentally relational rather than cryptic. His true “code” is a mode of attentiveness so deep that it allows reality to speak through him. What endures is not a secret message, but a living quality of perception that continues to awaken wonder centuries later.

Hans Zimmer - Chevaliers De Sangreal

(Live in Prague) (with better audio)

"Chevaliers De Sangreal" is one of the most celebrated performances from Hans Zimmer’s 2016 European tour, featuring a 72-piece ensemble including the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Featured musicians are world-class soloists like violinist Rusanda Panfili and cellist Tina Guo. This powerful and emotionally stirring orchestral composition was originally written for The Da Vinci Code soundtrack. It’s one of the climactic themes of the film, typically associated with the moment of revelation and discovery near the story’s end.

In performance, especially in the Live in Prague recording, the piece unfolds as a gradual musical ascent: it begins with soft, sustained tones and simple motifs, then builds steadily through layered strings, brass, and often choral voices. This creates a sense of growing intensity and transcendence - a musical journey from quiet mystery toward triumphant resolution.

The overall mood of the piece is epic, reflective, and uplifting. It balances moments of contemplative calm with dramatic surges of sound, giving listeners both a meditative quality and a cinematic sense of grandeur. This dynamic arc is part of why the piece resonates deeply with audiences and is frequently described as “goosebump-inducing.”

The live setting in Prague adds extra energy and richness because the acoustics of a full orchestra and possible choir enhance the emotional impact. You hear a vivid, resonant performance that feels both majestic and intimate - an experience that mirrors the dramatic scope of the original film score.

In short, Chevaliers De Sangreal is an orchestral emotional climax: serene at first and then soaring into a powerful, almost ecstatic statement of musical resolution and beauty. 

The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 thriller novel by Dan Brown that follows Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon as he investigates a murder at the Louvre, uncovering a conspiracy involving secrets about Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene hidden in Leonardo da Vinci's art, leading to a race against a shadowy organization to reveal a historical truth. The book became a massive bestseller, sparking debate over its historical and religious claims, and was adapted into a major film.

R.E. Slater - A Visual of the Christian gospel

A VISUAL OF THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL

Love at the Center; Life in Motion

by R.E. Slater

The gospel is not a doctrine,

nor creed to defend -

but a pattern of love,

learning how to move.

            ① INCARNATION
        God-with-us, fully present
               ▲
               │
② COMPASSION ◄─┼─► ③ JUSTICE
 Love embodied   │   Love structured
 in mercy        │   in right relation
               │
               ▼
            ✚ LOVE ✚
        (The Living Center)
               ▲
               │
④ TRANSFORMATION ◄─┼─► ⑤ FORGIVENESS
 New creation     │   Restored
 within history   │   relationship
               │
               ▼
            ⑥ RESURRECTION
        Hope beyond death,
        life renewed for all

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LOVE, AS THE CENTER

“God is love.”

Love is not merely one theme among others—it is the interpretive key that holds all six movements together. Remove love, and the gospel fractures. Keep love central, and the whole becomes luminous.

THE CENTER IN SIX MOVEMENTS

① Incarnation - God-with-us
The gospel begins not with escape from the world but with presence within it. God enters history, body, vulnerability, and relationship.

② Compassion - Love felt and enacted
Jesus reveals a God who suffers with creation. Healing, table-fellowship, and solidarity define holiness.

③ Justice - Love made social
The gospel is not private salvation alone. It confronts oppression, restores dignity, and reorders communities toward the common good.

④ Transformation - New life already unfolding
Salvation is not only future-oriented. Hearts, minds, relationships, and systems are renewed here and now.

⑤ Forgiveness - Reconciled relationship
Not legal erasure but relational repair. Forgiveness restores communion—between God, neighbor, self, and creation.

⑥ Resurrection - Hope that outlasts death
The final word is not violence, failure, or entropy, but creative life renewed—for persons, peoples, and the cosmos.

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How to Use This Hexagram

• Meditatively: Sit with one point at a time, then return to the center.

• Theologically: As a non-reductive summary of Christian faith.

• Visually: As a diagram, poster, or illuminated manuscript-style illustration.

• Practically: As a diagnostic—Which movement is missing in our theology or church?

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Below is a version of the Living Gospel. Designed not to be read, but to be entered. To function as a sacred instrument reading music where direction changes meaning, and motion generates insight.

A LIVING GOSPEL

as a rule of movement, not as a static creed

INWARD
From the edges of the soul inward towards the heart - This is the path of incarnation.

Incarnation → Compassion → Justice → Transformation → Forgiveness → Resurrection → Love

• God enters the world
• God feels the world
• God reorders the world
• God renews the world
• God reconciles the world
• God outlives the world’s death
• And is revealed as Love

An inward reading discloses what God is.

Presence condenses into essence.

Multiplicity converges into Love.

OUTWARD
From the center of the soul outward towards the world  - This is the path of mission.

Love → Incarnation → Compassion → Justice → Transformation → Forgiveness → Resurrection

• Love refuses abstraction
• Love becomes embodied
• Love becomes merciful
• Love becomes just
• Love becomes creative
• Love becomes reconciling
• Love becomes hope beyond death

An outward reading discloses what love can do.

Essence becomes action.

The center radiates life.

CLOCKWISE

From the spiral of historical becoming encompassing time, growth, and life's processes.

Incarnation → Compassion → Forgiveness → Transformation → Justice → Resurrection

• Presence awakens empathy
• Empathy opens reconciliation
• Reconciliation enables change
• Change demands justice
• Justice anticipates renewal
• Renewal overcomes death

A clockwise reading reveals the gospel as evolving faith.

It matures. It bends history.

Slowly, toward healing.

COUNTERCLOCKWISE
From prophetic reversal comes prophetic critique, disruption, and judgment-as-healing.

Resurrection → Justice → Transformation → Forgiveness → Compassion → Incarnation

• Hope confronts despair
• Justice unmasks violence
• Transformation disrupts stagnation
• Forgiveness dismantles cycles of blame
• Compassion dissolves distance
• Incarnation abolishes separation

A counterclockwise reading reveals the gospel as resistance.

The future interrupts the present.

Grace overturns fear-based religion.

VERTICAL AXIS (UP / DOWN)
From Transcendence ↕ Immanence:

• Upward: Incarnation → Resurrection
• God enters matter; matter is lifted into life.

• Downward: Resurrection → Incarnation
• Eternity returns to dwell among the vulnerable.

The vertical axis refuses escape theology.

Heaven is not elsewhere. It is here.

It descends and abides.

HORIZONTAL AXIS (LEFT / RIGHT)
From Ethics ↔ Relationship:

• Leftwards: Compassion → Forgiveness
• The healing of persons.

• Rightwards: Justice → Transformation
• The healing of systems.

The horizontal axis prevents moral distortion.

There can be no justice without mercy.

There can be no mercy without loving justice.

THE STILLED CENTER
From the stilled center comes that which doesn't move - yet moves all things.

LOVE is not -

sentiment,

command,

demand,

nor reward.

But relational energy

indwelt with divine lure -

toward greater beauty,

deeper connection,

and shared becoming.

All directions originate from Love's center.

All movements return to it's core theme.

Love is the coda that revives.

EMBODIMENT PRACTICE

• Meditation: Sit at the center; breathe one movement per breath.
• Liturgy: Read one direction per season of the church year.
• Ethics: Ask which vector your theology overemphasizes—and which it neglects.
• Art: Render the visuals as stained glass, illumined manuscript, or kinetic diagram.

Rose Window . Famous stained glass window inside Notre Dame Cathedral.
Paris is a photograph by Bernard Jaubert which was uploaded on July 10th, 2014.

A BECOMING CONCRESCENCE

Presence enters becoming.

Becoming feels the many as one.

The many respond becoming more, together.

The "more together" are lured into deeper harmony.

Deeper harmony bends order without force.

Without force justice learns patience.

Patience releases the past.

The past is carried forward transformed.

Transformed life refuses final endings.

Final endings open unto wider relations.

Wider relations feels the many as one.

The many respond, becoming more.

Becoming enters presence.

Presence enters becoming.

This is love's liveliness.

R.E. Slater

January 11, 2026

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Notre Dame's rose windows date back to the 13th century. (Wikimedia Commons: Krzysztof Mizera)

ANOTHER GOSPEL HEXAGRAM

As A Poem You Walk Through

                     INCARNATION
                God steps inside the world
                         flesh-breathed
                          ▲
                          │
          COMPASSION ◄─────┼─────► JUSTICE
      hands that heal      │      tables overturned
      tears are shared     │       dignity restored
                          │
                          ▼
                       ✚ LOVE ✚
                 the still-burning center
                 not command, not fear,
               but the gravity of relation
                          ▲
                          │
      TRANSFORMATION ◄─────┼─────► FORGIVENESS
    old skins loosen        │      debts released
    new hearts grow       │      wounds unbound
                          │
                          ▼
                     RESURRECTION
                life refusing the last word
                     hope with a pulse

🔄 CLOCKWISE (BECOMING)
God arrives → feels → forgives → changes → reorders → outlives death → and returns as love
[A slow spiral. History learning how to heal.]

🔁 COUNTERCLOCKWISE (INTERRUPTION)
Hope breaks in → justice awakens → change disrupts → forgiveness disarms → compassion dissolves distance → God refuses to stay away

[A prophetic reversal. The future interrupts the present.]

⬇⬆ INWARD (CONTEMPLATION)

Many movements fold into one truth: Love is what remains when fear is gone.

⬆⬇ OUTWARD (MISSION)
Love refuses stillness → is embodied → becomes mercy → becomes justice → becomes renewal → becomes hope

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A NEW GRAVITY


07                            God enters the body of the world
16                        and never leaves it. Learning its weight,
25                    its hunger, its touch, its miseries, joys and deeps.
34                Hands open. Wounds visible. Tears which run speaking aloud.
43            Mercy walks barefoot through dust and dirt, tables and long nights.
52        The crooked is made answerable, the crushed lifted towards dignity's poetry.
61    Love insisting that systems bend always towards the vulnerable, poor, and oppressed.
72        What was closed loosens. What was dead relearns breath. What was shut opens.
83            Old hatreds fall away. Renewal begins. Redemption is felt. Life heals.
94                Old enmities are released. Blame dissolves. Guilts fly away.
105                    The past is forgiven. The present enables the future.
116                        Love arises where life is spoken, not death.
127                            Hope resurrects from the grave.

                                            LOVE
                                    becomes the new gravity,
                                    holding all life gently,
                                            LOVE

127                            Hope resurrects from the grave.
116                        Love arises where life is spoken, not death.
105                    The past is forgiven. The present enables the future.                    
94                Old enmities are released. Blame dissolves. Guilts fly away.
83            Old hatreds fall away. Renewal begins. Redemption is felt. Life heals.
72        What was closed loosens. What was dead relearns breath. What was shut opens.
61    Love insisting that systems bend always towards the vulnerable, poor, and oppressed.
52        The crooked is made answerable, the crushed lifted towards dignity's poetry.
43            Mercy walks barefoot through dust and dirt, tables and long nights.
34                Hands open. Wounds visible. Tears which run speaking aloud.
25                    its hunger, its touch, its miseries, joys and deeps.
16                        and never leaves it. Learning its weight,
07                            God enters the body of the world



R.E. Slater
January 11, 2026
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all rights reserved

*written as a mirror, feeding back
upon itself ,with no real starting
point, except that of convention.

ENTERING BECOMING

God entered

the world's becoming -

not as force, but as presence.

Feeling the world

each wound a nexus -

each joy retained.

Love's reordering bends

history’s rigid lines -

in patient persuasion.

What is, becomes more

than it was; a new novelty -

born from shared response.

Release loosens the past

renews relationships -

healed in time.

Life is never erased

but carried forward -

lively transformed.

Love is the new allure

of harmony holding -

the many as one.

Life is never erased

but carried forward -

lively transformed.

Release loosens the past

renews relationships -

healed in time.

What is, becomes more

than it was; a new novelty -

born from shared response.

Love's reordering bends

history’s rigid lines -

in patient persuasion.

Feeling the world

each wound a nexus -

each joy retained.

God entered

the world's becoming -

not as force, but as presence.

R.E. Slater

January 11, 2026

@copyright R.E. Slater Publications

all rights reserved

*written as a mirror, feeding back

upon itself ,with no real starting

point, except that of convention.