Tag: relationship
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2026-06-01 IAM: Break Their Teeth (Fangs 1/9)
Hunting snakes / Not because I fear them / Or wish to protect others // Simply / Because I am hungry…
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2026-05-24 IAM: Pouring Fresh Oil (Bodyguard 14/14)
A vesicle / Absorbing sin from others / Submitting it to Christ / In exchange for grace / That I give back to them…
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2026-05-08 SAM: Needy Who Groan (Zion 8/10)
Not / To make myself feel better / By helping other people / Solve their problems // But / Helping them better feel…
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2026-04-24 IAM: Living-Understanding (Safety 9/10)
The water breaks / Spilling my grandfather and I out / As twins…
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2026-04-22 IAM: Kiss the Son (Safety 7/10)
The earth beneath my feet / That I thought solid bedrock / Collapses / Beneath the weight / Of pursuing holiness / At the cost of relationship…
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Diaphoric Attunement (Special Ability)
Diaphoric Attunement is the conscious capacity to enter, endure, and harmonize tension between opposing realities without collapsing or dominating either
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ChatGPT Describes Ernie’s Spirituality
Spirituality is the recovery of the way reality was always meant to be experienced.
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2026-01-24 YAM: Secret Wisdom (Path 6/7)
All the way to the cross / Where reality breaks us / As we break reality…
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2025-12-28 IAM: And Cuddled Him (Married 5/8)
Without fear / Of being absorbed by her / Or displaced by my siblings…
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2025-12-25 IAM: Never Abandoned (Married 2/8)
The one / Who does not see Christ / Though He is right in front of me // Because / He is parked in my manger / Obstructing my self-nurture…
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Obedience School for Humans (St. Bernard as a Saint Bernard)
You might think obedience school is for dogs. / But no: dogs already understand love. / It is humans who must learn…
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2025-12-01 IAM: Relative By Marriage (Kinsman 13/17)
Somehow / The Jesus-inspired surgery / Replacing her mother’s feet / Brought me face to face / With my beloved…
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2025-11-26 IAM: Lie Down There (Kinsman 8/17)
She is pleasant towards me / But reserved // Perhaps I am too…
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2025-11-25 IAM: Plenty to Eat and Drink (Kinsman 7/17)
She doesn’t see me / So consistently / That I know / She is deliberately avoiding me…
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2025-11-06 YAM:Which Fields They Go (Survey 6/18)
The cliff we wandered off / Was not our doom / But our origin story…
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2025-11-04 YAM: On Her Feet (Survey 4/18)
The young woman / Assigned to help me / Doesn’t even notice me…
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Cross Purposes: The Spiral of Law and Grace
The Cross reveals that intimacy is not the absence of judgment but its transfiguration. / Love does not ignore truth — it inhabits it until truth itself becomes safe. // The Cross is not merely where Law and Grace reconcile — it’s where they marry. / Their union births the…
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2025-11-03 YAM: Who Came Back (Survey 3/18)
She confuses me / Because I cannot understand / Her purpose // I frighten her / Because she does / Understand mine…
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2025-10-30 SAM: Went To The Fields (Harvest 4/5)
To a beautiful land / Flowing with milk and honey / And great evil…
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God’s Hidden Face: Panim/Minap as Cosmic Peek-a-Boo
LEWIS: / I’ve been writing about Panim—the Hebrew for “face,” the turning of presence./ But I’ve coined a companion term: Minap—its reversal. / If Panim is the face turned toward, Minap is the face turned away—not in wrath, but in withdrawal, so that we might seek again. / The cosmos,…