It is a hot day.
I leave my dog in the car.
DBJ-PS73: 2nd Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice
StandardThis Tuesday, July 27th we reprise our Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice by meditating on justice and injustice via Psalm73.
Continue readingDBJ-MOGA+: Moses and other Redeemers
StandardSupplemental verses for Moses Overcoming God’s Anger
Continue readingDream: Yellow Candy Grace
StandardMy friend and I are hard-luck kids
In Sunday School
He’s dying of cancer.
The teachers try to take an offering
Of the bright yellow candy we both like
But rarely get
Dream: Checking-Out
StandardThe Takeaway
The fear of God should “pressure” me
To prioritize treating my family
With the fruits of the spirit
Even over accomplishing
What I thought He told me to do.
Dream: Love Story
StandardThere is a story within the story
One story is a fairy tale.
Sort of like Beauty and the Beast.
DBJ-MOGA: Moses Overcomes God’s Anger (Exodus 32)
StandardAt 2-4pm on Sunday, July 18th we will ask Jesus to disciple us through one of the most confusing and disturbing passages in all of Scripture, at least to me: Exodus 32, where Moses apparently talks God out of destroying His people.
DBJ-ECC3: Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice
StandardThis Wednesday (June 30, 2021) I invite you to join me in encountering God’s wisdom in Ecclesiastes 3, as part of the Bay Area Summer Peer Mentoring group for the Octet Collaborative.
Continue readingDream: Lost In Transit
StandardWe are passengers on a lost flight
Or maybe we knew someone who was
Or maybe we are just pretending. Continue reading
Breaking The Grievance Circuit
StandardSixSeconds EQ is named for the fact that the initial emotional response to an external trigger only lasts about six seconds.
I have noticed that certain triggers activate a self-perpetuating “grievance circuit” in my mind. This keeps a narrative justifying my resentment circulating in my mind; because I don’t know the appropriate action needed to resolve that trigger — and my psyche considers it too important to ignore!
This is vital information; but also a huge waste of resources. I must confess I don’t yet have a practice for reliably addressing this kind of problem, but here are some questions that might help:
Continue readingPoem: Love in the Shadow
StandardIt is easy to love when you walk in the light
When everything’s clear, and the future is bright
And all can agree on what’s wrong and what’s right
Continue readingDream: Terror Hoops
StandardArena
I am in an Arena.
At least in the building.
I’m backstage, on the edge of the Court.
Watching a man go out to be arrested.
A former basketball player.
He was going to blow the place up.
I helped turn him in.
I’m hoping he forgives me.
That he knew what he was going to do was wrong.
And is glad someone stopped him.
But more than that.
I’m hoping he doesn’t feel alone.
That he doesn’t think I hate or despise him.
DBJ-2021-06-25: Reconciling Reformers
StandardUnsolicited Fatherly Advice
StandardBased on everything I have learned over the last several years, here is my current practice for how to confront someone I love that I am concerned about.
It reflects many painful learnings about what I have found to be counterproductive, but I am sure there is still room for improvement. Let me know your thoughts!
Continue readingPlaylist DBJ-SHON: Salome’s Honor
StandardSalome, the mother of James and John, and her complicated relationship to advancing the ministry of Jesus.
Continue readingRedeeming Aphrodite: Girls Knight Out (Part 11)
StandardContinued from Part 10
Prologue
I stand in the Box of Hades
Holding the hand of Eve.
While the Multitude tears Adam to shreds.
Over and over and over again.
Time seems to stop.
Or perhaps speed up to infinity.
We are frozen somewhere between horror and awe.
By the depths of his sacrifice.
Somehow, thought resumes.
Something snaps me out of my reverie.
Was it a shout from Adam?
Some movement from Eve?
I remember his final command, to save his Bride.
My Mother.
Who suffers no man to rescue her.
From whence no mortal ever returned.
What could a Son of Adam like myself possibly do?
Especially having surrendered the Master Key of Peter!
And then I realize.
I do know one who is neither man nor mortal.
And I’m pretty sure she owes me a favor…
Aphrodite
Continue readingEffective Righteous Prayer
StandardThere are many types of prayer, for many reasons and occasions. This is my current preferred practice for “prevailing” prayer — when I am not ready to take no for an answer.
Continue readingExercising Good Judgement
StandardIt is dangerous to judge others.
It is irresponsible not to.
Communion of the Betrayed
StandardSimilar to HeartSync or Sozo, Communion of the Betrayed (COTB) — also known as Soul Shift — is for inner healing of emotional woundings; but as a public co-devotional practice, inspired by DBJ.
COTB is designed specifically for people who feel they have been betrayed by someone close to them (as Jesus was). This is a very deep wound that requires extraordinary grace.
Special thanks to Jamie Winship of Identity Exchange for his input and encouragement.
DBJ Family Edition (John 13)
StandardA simplified version of DBJ-LOVE-5 we used with our parents and kids.
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