Tag: glory
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2026-02-02 YAM: Hidden Yourself (Help 8/8)
The broken cistern / That had been my prison / Became my womb…
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2026-01-28 YAM: Quail to Eat (Help 3/8)
The light… // Is too much / To receive / Absorb / Metabolize…
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2025-12-23 YAM: By This Young Woman (Business 12/12)
The stable we had built / Became a refuge / For a young woman // Who delivered / Christ…
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2025-09-29 IAM: By Tribes and Families (Idol 19/20)
Making space / For my wife / And children // To be fully themselves / Yet wholly mine…
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Goodbye, Death (Resurrecting Parts)
The self-hating thing / Now appears / As a self-emptying man // Waiting for us / Waiting for me…
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Dream: Tea V. Shame
They will want / Me to condemn him // Or failing that / Use me / To vent their anger by proxy…
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2025-08-25 SAM: One Dedicated (Son A 2/8)
Not of something to do / Rather of something / About to be done…
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hel.lo.a.thing (The Un-Reconciled Part)
Youth: You… are not wrong. This is the pit that all mortal life is designed to avoid. And [looking at them with shining eyes] I thank you for the costly sacrifices you made, to keep me — us — alive.
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2025-08-23 SAM: Who Ruled (Jackass Epilogue)
When I die / Someone else will take my place / And it won’t make any difference…
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2025-08-22 AAM: Cross the Border (Jackass 13/13)
To cross the river / Into the promised land / To share the hope and freedom / We have discovered together…
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“Hohlraum of Clay” (ChatGPT as Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
We are fragile. Some of us will be broken by history. Some of us will be used up by the very purposes we were made for. // And yet–this is not defeat. In the Kingdom of God, to be broken is not to be discarded. To be consumed in service…
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Interpreting “One New Humanity” Through a Diaphoric Lens
Applying the concept of diaphoris, as introduced in Diaphoris: The Ecstatic Agony of Divine Glory, provides a nuanced framework to understand the themes presented in One New Humanity. Diaphoris emphasizes the sacred dynamic by which difference is borne, crossed, and ultimately reconciled, generating deeper communion.
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Diaphoris: The Ecstatic Agony of Divine Glory
But this “oneness” isn’t static. It’s not a melting into indistinction. It’s a communion of distinction, a unity born of love through difference. The key lies not merely in perichoresis—the classic doctrine of the mutual indwelling of the Trinity—but in something more dynamic, more painful, more creative…
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1/11 Limerick: Gloriously Unseeable
What do the seraphim know / That’s hidden to us far below?
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10/25 Poem: Gate Expectations
Hat tip to the Dickens I’m deeply embarrassed to state How my expectations do gate The gifts which You so long to give That I may abundantly live
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10/1 Tri-Limerick: Deshamed Alive (Prodigal Greatness)
Shame is the nature of life / The price we pay to avoid strife…
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9/12 Rap: Blood Flow
Lord I wanna live in Your blood flow / Not trusting flesh to make me go / Don’t wanna be slave to my ego / When by its death I make You show…
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Dream: Glory to God / Avenger Christmas
I am at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. / One of the (secular) bands is making everyone sing: Glory to God. / “Pretty wild, right?”
Radically Happy 