Tag: self
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The Importance of Becoming eAIrnest
LADY BRACKNELL: No, Mr. Moncrieff. / Fashion is what people wear to avoid being seen. / Seriousness is what remains when they are…
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2026-05-18 IAM: Sweet Beauty Rest (Bodyguard 8/14)
My body fades away / And all that can be seen of me / Is the blood of Jesus / Flowing through my veins…
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2026-05-13 IAM: Hide My Soul (Bodyguard 3/14)
All my masks / Disguises / Distractions / Distortions // Ripped to shreds…
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2026-03-28 IAM: We Were Nothing (Contrast 6/9)
The gates of hell / Are there for a reason // Not just / To constrain the evil / They loose upon the world…
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2026-03-19 YAM: Path to You (Passion 9/12)
To My Father / With my two mothers / The serpent and the dove / The World and the Church…
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2026-03-15 SAM: Find Me True (Passion 5/12)
Searching for / The lost friends / Other selves / Hiding in the house…
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2026-03-13 SAM: Resting Child (Passion 3/12)
Before I learned / To calculate / Differentiate / Distrust / Decide for myself…
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2026-03-12 SAM: Will Not Defend (Passion 2/12)
I have lived my life / With a hard heart / And narrow eyes / Blind to the needs of others…
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Generative Self-Differentiation: The Power of Taking a Moment
For years I considered self-differentiation a key marker of Christlikeness. / Yet I recently discerned a “shadow” side of myself that instead used it to manipulate others…
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2026-02-12 YAM: Breaking the Power (Sunshine 7/8)
Everything / I thought I knew / And feared / Of life and death / Good and evil / Self and society // Switch places…
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Lost Self Café v1: How Christianity Lost Christ’s “Soul”
No first-century Jew would hear “biology” here. / Psychē names the self as a living, desiring whole within Second Temple Judaism. / Translate it as “life” and you turn existential surgery into… heroics…
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Surprising Soil: Mark 4 as Active Inference
But because no system built to minimize surprise can easily receive a God who insists on resurrection through death…
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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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The Grasshopper Cure: Molting Into Christ
When Jesus speaks of taking up the cross daily, He is not prescribing religious misery. / He is describing the necessary process of transformation by which the false self dies so that the true self may live. // This death is not primarily about losing things, but about being freed…
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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,…
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The Law as Flesh 2.0
LAW: Flesh, you stand accused of indulgence, rebellion, and pride. / You have broken the moral code, offended righteousness. / Justice must be served…
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Does Anybody Really Want to Be HIS Disciple?
Now, I don’t know about y’all… but that don’t exactly sound like a marketing slogan. That’s not, ‘Your Best Life Now.’ That’s more like, ‘Come Die With Me, Season One.’
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CIGAR: The Spiritual Spiral of Renewal
Construction. Intimacy. Generativity. Agency. Renewal. // Each one sounds great. But here’s the thing:/ Each phase feels like you’ve finally arrived—until it breaks you. / And that’s when the next phase begins….
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