Category: Art

  • Dream: Sky Dancer

    Dream: Sky Dancer

    My enemies are powerful / But also insane / I take to the skies / To safeguard my brain…

  • Gut Check, Inc.

    Gut Check, Inc.

    I find myself on another plane of existence. Talking to some sort of a stomach thing. GutBrain: I am not some mere “thing.” I am a highly-evolved neural complex. Far older than you, you neo-cortical whippersnapper!

  • Immanuel Encounter: On The Beach

    Immanuel Encounter: On The Beach

    He takes a piece of His own broken, nail-scarred body and places it in my mouth.

  • Cheapskate, Inc.

    Cheapskate, Inc.

    Earnest: Whaddya mean? Aren’t you the persona that flails me when I waste food, time, or money? / Cheapskate: No, sir! I’m just pointing things out. I’m the accountant. Not the enforcer. / Earnest: Um, then who… / Cheapskate: Meet Guido. / [Hat tip to Myth Inc. Link]

  • Dream: Psalm 51 (or not)

    Dream: Psalm 51 (or not)

    As usual, I am sure I know this. / And desperate to give the answer. / There’s two problems…

  • Man[ager] of War

    Man[ager] of War

    Your most urgent and important problem is that you don’t “own” what you truly want — especially the price you must pay to get it.

  • Dream: Fan Ceiling (Soup Money)

    Dream: Fan Ceiling (Soup Money)

    I am a student in a dormWith an “adulting” assignment:Order takeout from my favorite restaurant. ConvenientlyMine is on the top floor.

  • Dream: Bait-and-Switch (Undercover Spiritual Warfare)

    Dream: Bait-and-Switch (Undercover Spiritual Warfare)

    Is this how we use spiritual warfare to set free those we love? / 
Watch and pray while Christ takes their place? / 
Hold the boundary so nothing interferes?

  • Lecherio: Eleventh Night, or As You Love It

    Lecherio: [angry] Damn you! Why must you be so annoying? / Fool: [mimicking Lecherio] Why must YOU be so annoying?

  • Orsinine: Eleventh Night, or As You Love It

    Hat tip to William Shakespeare Act 1, Scene 1. Orisino: Fool! Play me a love song. Fool: But I thought you wert sick of being in love with the Lady Olivia. Art thou even more fool than I? O. Exactly! I want to gorge on love and vomit it up,…

  • Dream: Bi-Cycle Desegregation

    Dream: Bi-Cycle Desegregation

    On the one hand, all of us on both sides share the same visceral disgust of the unclean. / Far worse than the mere contempt They have for Us. / Letting the untouchables roam freely would spark a violent reaction and further entrenchment.

  • The UnGiver FINALE, Part 6/6: BloodHeart

    The UnGiver FINALE, Part 6/6: BloodHeart

    “Strike me down, will you? Ready to take my place, and inherit my powers? Do it, then! Let someone else bear this burden, this unending torment. Kill me now, and damn yourself to hell.”

  • The UnGiver, Part 5/6: BleakHeart

    The UnGiver, Part 5/6: BleakHeart

    I sit at a table with my brother and apparently-not-dead long-lost Father. Refugees in a small shed on the estate of our mad mother. Wondering how in the name of the Emperor-Beyond-The-Sea I will find the Gift that can restore our family. When all I can look at is the…

  • The UnGiver, Part 4/6: BoundHeart

    The UnGiver, Part 4/6: BoundHeart

    The bottom falls out. Literally. The ground in front of the door opens up and swallows the two of them. Then seals up behind them. The birds, which had paused at their screams, resume their idle chatter. Leaving no sign they had ever been there.

  • If I Were Hamas: An Exercise in Empathy

    I can imagine being a true believer in Hamas… / If I knew a cure for this horrid compulsion, I would have used it. But from what I can see of the world outside, no such cure exists.

  • Connect Others With Jesus Challenge – Day 2 Homework

    Jesus was playing with me, like a girl with her Barbie.

  • Dream: Family County

    Dream: Family County

    My first thought / When I woke up / Was that this was what the church should be / What our family should become…

  • Dream: Prince of Nerds

    Dream: Prince of Nerds

    I even win an award.
 “Mr. Popular”
 It includes the right to crash any party.
 Not just at nerd camp.
 Any camp.
 (Though it may just be honorary)

  • Earnest the Sinner vs Narrator

    Earnest the Sinner vs Narrator

    “Listen, I’ve been playing your little narrative games for years now. And frankly I’m getting a little sick of it. It’s time we finally had an honest talk.”

  • Dream: Mighty Fortress

    Dream: Mighty Fortress

    He asks me if I want a “fortress piece.”
 / I see he’s gotten out one of his MTG-style card games.
 / I assumed this means a special box-like thing for holding the cards.
 / But he’s pointing to a coffee cup.
 / White, ceramic, tapered at the bottom.