Category: Devotional
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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…
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2024-12-07 IAM: Injective (Raising 9/11)
My stains / Cover their sins / While His purity / Drains them…
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2024-12-06 IAM: Served (Raising 8/11)
I fall / To pieces / Like Humpty Dumpty // I look for Jesus. / He says: / “Look to your enemies…”
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2024-12-05 IAM: Led (Raising 7/11)
I am a pulsar / A celestial beacon / Shooting gamma rays / Across the universe…
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2024-12-04 IAM: Altared (Raising 6/11)
The cross / Inside my shattered heart / Has become a black hole / Its gravity / Sucking in / Everyone / Who had received / A piece of my heart…
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2024-12-03 IAM: Swell (Raising 5/11)
The ties that bind / Me to others / Are pulling me / In too many directions…
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2024-12-02 IAM: Reunited (Raising 4/11)
The connections / Slow my wild gyrations / Without becoming entangled…
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2024-12-01 IAM: Envisioned (Raising 3/11)
Every step I take / Or rather make / On the invisible staircase / Is not a linear climb // I am drawing a map / Painting a picture / Telling a story…
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2024-11-30 IAM: Traction (Raising 2/11)
My leap of faith / Up into thin air / Landed me on / An invisible stair…
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2024-11-29 IAM: Lighter (Raising 1/11)
I must be willing / To commit to the next step / Even if I don’t know where or what it is // To lose my balance / After having fought hard to gain it…
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2024-11-28 YAM: Radiate
The weight of my sins / The pressure of society / The burden of responsibility / The gravity of relationships / The load of identity // Relentless / Inescapable / Crushing / Destroying…
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2024-11-27 SAM: Mouthful (Payback 3/3)
I realize / The enemies / I was running away from / Were the orphans / Human and inhuman / I had fathered / And abandoned…
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2024-11-26 SAM: Penitent (Payback 2/3)
I take the young lamb / I had been protecting / Who used to eat from my hand / And my table // And lay it on a stone altar / To prepare a feast for my enemies…
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2024-11-25 SAM: Beached (Payback 1/3)
Upstream / Against a fast-flowing river / Ahead of my enemies…

