Category: Devotional
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2024-12-27 IAM: Ablaze (Noel 3/7)
Just when I had made my peace / With nothing happening / The world tilts / And heaven falls over…
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2024-12-26 IAM: Unhoused (Noel 2/7)
I have left / The sheep of my thoughts / The shelter of my ego / The heights of my arrogance / The depths of my despair // All that is left / Is the fog of uncertainty…
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2024-12-25 IAM: Dominated (Noel 1/7)
MIC Check Today’s Most Important Challenge is… Immanuel Approach Memo I am… shepherding my thoughts. It is not easy workBut I’ve learned to enjoy it I’ve befriended most of the sheepThough there are still unruly onesI often need to chase down UsuallyI am too focused on themTo look up at…
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2024-12-24 SAM: Uplifted
A twisted mess of contradictions / At the center of my own universe // It is all I can do / To hold it together…
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2024-12-23 YAM: Desirable (Mouthless 5/5)
I am simultaneously / Emptied and filled / Connected and separated / Losing and finding myself…
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2024-12-22 YAM: Harvested (Mouthless 4/5)
Jesus opens His mouth / And cuts a door / In the fabric of reality / Takes me by the hand / And pulls me with Him…
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2024-12-21 YAM: Come Union (Mouthless 3/5)
Jesus has come / To claim me as His Bride // But I have no mouth / To speak the words / That lay on my heart…
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2024-12-20 YAM: Belonging (Mouthless 2/5)
I am in the chorus line / All by myself / Yet unable to sing / For I have no mouth…
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2024-12-19 YAM: Interceding (Mouthless 1/5)
Mischievous children / Who knew no better / Struck me with a stick / Knocking off my lips / Leaving a hollow spot // I want to cry out / But cannot…
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2024-12-18 IAM: Clothed (Alive 8/8)
I am… human. / Formed from the dust / Of stars, soil and strife // I am overcome / By the naked horror / Of their sacrifice // I cannot lift my head / To see the Father…
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2024-12-17 YAM: Abounding (Alive 7/8)
I am the animals / My carbon locked / In every cell of their body / As they feast on plants / And each other…
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2024-12-16 YAM: Dispersed (Alive 6/8)
Together / We break down the diamond / Into charcoal Fertilized by the blood of Jesus…
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2024-12-15 SAM: Doubled (Alive 5/8)
Every piece / Torn out my broken heart / Becomes a colony / A garden / An undersea forest…
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2024-12-14 SAM: Mantled (Alive 4/8)
My diamond-hard heart / Was crushed into slippery graphite / And bouncy buckyballs / Over the blood and water / That flowed out of Jesus…
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2024-12-13 IAM: Seasoned (Alive 3/8)
His love / Is injecting itself / Into the empty space / Around me…
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2024-12-12 IAM: Cleaving (Alive 2/8)
The words of Jesus / Cut through my diamond-hard heart / Splitting me in two / Revealing its hollow center…
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2024-12-11 IAM: Faceted (Alive 1/8)
I am… a diamond. // An octahedron of carbon / Floating in empty space…
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2024-12-09 SAM: De-Light-Ed (Raising 11/11)
We no longer need / Windowpanes like me / In the throne room of Jesus // To let in light / To protect from weather // He is our light / He rules the weather…
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2024-12-08 IAM: Governed (Raising 10/11)
They dance around / The margins of the city / Singing songs of salvation / That become living walls…
Radically Happy 