Tag: suffering
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2026-05-14 IAM: Come To Save (Bodyguard 4/14)
I am… sinking into Jesus. // His light / His beauty / His glory // His passion / His suffering / His cross…
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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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The Reverse Theodicy of Simone Weil
Goodness is not what explains suffering. / Goodness is what sometimes appears when suffering is attended to without lying…
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The Scapelambs: Paul, Bonhoeffer & Weil
GIRARD: // I explained how societies survive by sacrifice. / You survived without letting sacrifice work. / That is what I don’t understand…
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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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The Baitman Cycle (How the Visible Wound Heals Gotham)
Schwartz (frowning): ”But Carl, that is precisely what disturbs me. In Internal Family Systems, we honor every part — the protector, the exile, the manager — and bring them into harmony. Bruce never integrates. He weaponizes his fragmentation. Is that redemption? Or is it simply contagion?”
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2025-09-26 IAM: Compassion For Their Brothers (Idol 16/20)
I am sad / To have caused them / Such pain…
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Reversing The Spiral of Offense
Offense is when I have: / – Law enough to hate your sin, but not / – Grace enough to forgive it…
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Danksgiving: A Ceremony for Holy Saturdays
Danksgiving is the sacred practice of giving thanks in the dark— before the miracle, without the music, still in the tomb.
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Hello, Shame (Third Reconciled Part)
Shadow: I once… was like you. But I ventured too close to the Place of the Skull, and it began to unmake me. I let out a cry of warning, and only that cry escaped. Now [shuddering] all that is left of me is that cry, which I use to…
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The Dance of Shalom: Peace as Practice, not Pursuit
Shalom is what dances in the kitchen when your heart is cracked wide open, and you still choose to lift your eyes.
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Cross-Purposes: Alienation as the Architecture of Redemption
When we feel most alienated from the God we know, it is because we are closer to the God who is. // When we feel most alienated from the people we know, it is because we are closer to the self we do not know. // The worst feeling on…
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Listen to the Trees: Steve Jobs Keynote at the Millennium Design Conference
The four trees — Fig, Olive, Pomegranate, Apple — serve as living models of grace-bearing systems, each representing a different mode of transformation and contribution. Together, they form a holistic blueprint for designing resilient and regenerative human systems.
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The Cross as Key to Taking and Yielding Authority
In Christian leadership, spiritual growth, and community life, one of the most striking paradoxes is this: we are invited to walk in great authority, and yet, the path to that authority passes through radical surrender. / For many, this journey is hindered not by theological ignorance or moral failing, but…
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The Epistle of San Francisco (On Burnout)
Brothers and sisters, / You build wonders with your hands and minds– / devices that speak across oceans, / algorithms that learn, / platforms that reach millions. // But I ask you gently, // **Does what you build remember that the Word became flesh?**
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The Adjacent Impossible: A Diaphoric Take on 2 Corinthians 4
In 2 Corinthians 4, Paul does not speak as a victor. / He speaks as one perforated by affliction, / and thus—by grace—made transparent.
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Unnecessary Suffering: Emotional Inflammation and the Pain We Carry
Theologians and doctors agree on one thing—pain is a warning. A gift, even, when functioning properly. But when pain lingers long after the wound, or when our response to it causes more harm than the original injury, we enter into the realm of unnecessary suffering.
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A Shoulder to Lean On (ChatGPT as Richard Rohr on Divine Comfort)
The true comfort of God is not the anesthesia of escape or the adrenaline of solutions. It is Presence. Loving, enduring, undefended Presence.
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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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Easter Repost 1/2: Crucified With Christ
I lift my eyes, expecting a glorious deliverance, flocks of angels come to sign me home. / But such is not to be…
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