Radically Happy

Author: Dr. Ernie

  • 3/29 Limerick: Power Surge

    Your Body’s been bleeding for years / As each lost sheep disappears / But if we touch Your hem / The power to love them / Will shine through the joy in our tears

  • 3/28 Limerick: Wake Jesus

    When I’m adrift in this lake / Help me, Lord, to see Your wake / You’re not still asleep / Your promise you’ll keep / For even death’s glory, you’ll take!

  • 3/27 Limericks: New Skin Whine

    The voice of our flesh
 / Refuses what’s fresh
 / And clings with a death-grip to “Mine!”

  • Faith Life Cycle: Each Next Consummation

    1. Faith in Self 2. Faith in the Law 3. Faith in Grace 4. Faith in our Cross

  • 3/26 Poem: Mess. I? Ah!

    The reason I need a MessiahIs because of the, quote, “Mess I Are”It feels like I’m fighting a hydraMy striving will not get me far

  • 3/25 Limerick: Gift Withholding

    If You are withholding Your gift
 / Maybe it’s due to our rift
 / It’s always worthwhile
 / That we reconcile
 / To show the world we get Your drift!

  • Dream: Duck Type Casting

    Dream: Duck Type Casting

    These kids are in love with an actual duck. One of the larger kids dresses up in a giant, non-realistic duck costume. They go on various misadventures. This intersects somehow with Amazon Web Services (AWS). [Clearly I’m working too hard!]

  • 3/24 Limericks: HyperSense

    And how can I act
 / When meaning is lacked
 / And cost of failure immense?

  • 3/23 Limerick: God-Pardner

    Lord, I want God as my pardner So I can best do what I oughter With you at my side I’m your secure Bride And we raise the world like our daughter! So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees…

  • Dream: Super Poop Check

    Dream: Super Poop Check

    I am walking my dogs Qhuinn and Frolic on their yoke leash, as usual. I pass a bit of small dog poop. I wonder if I should pick it up. This is not a simple question…

  • 3/22 Lyrics: He Wills

    HE WILL always love you
 / Though you might not believe it
 / HE WILL give good blessings
 / Yet you might not receive it

  • 3/21 Poem: Revealing Love

    No wonder we struggle with pain
 / Despite all the prayers we have kneeled
 / Our eyes cannot bear the hard truth
 / Of how much for us God has feeled

  • 3/20 Limerick: Marvel, Heroes

    We are not all of us heroes But we can still testify, “He rose!” When Grace triumphs Law He fills us with awe And calls us to cast nets while He rows

  • Jonah’s Brother

    Jonah’s Brother

    Jonah: Please don’t tell me this is for another whale pun! Earnest: I actually wanted to talk to you about bitterness and judgmentalism. J. Say, did you ever hear the one about the whale who…

  • 3/19 Limerick: God Bless My Foes

    Blessings on all of my foes!
 / For even the worst of my woes
 / Serve but to reveal
 / The pain that I feel
 / Is what brings the healing Christ chose

  • Me Encountering Jesus 2023-03-18

    Jesus had a huge grin on His face. I heard the words “So Happy” over and over. And I started sobbing great gut-wrenching sobs.

  • 3/18 Limerick: Lighten Up

    Lord, help me to lighten up Even as I drink from Your cup The bitter tastes sweet Knowing we’ll meet At the time of the final sup

  • 3/17 Limericks: Word Choke

    I know it may sound like a joke But sometimes on Your Word I choke The truth that I find O’erwhelms my mind Fearing that I’ll end up broke Lord plow up the soil of my heart Make me the place where you start Sowing your joy So we destroy…

  • 3/16 RSVP: Salt Mine

    Lord, now that I’ve left Your ocean 
 / I find myself struck by the notion 
 / That salt is the thing that I lack 
 / For which I must always go back

  • 3/15 Limerick: Unfolding Mystery

    The story which our lives make told 
 / Is one which must slowly unfold 
 / The mystery seems dark 
 / But grace is the spark 
 / That unveils the path we enrolled