Category: Devotional
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4/25 YAM: Waiter (Unmated-I 7 of 13)
He says / “Rest here / Awhile / I have to prepare / A surprise for you” // I cry out / “Don’t leave me! / I hate / To be alone…”
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4/24 YAM: Seer (Unmated-I 6 of 13)
For a moment I panic / Waterboarded / Triggered / By the depth / Of His emotion / For me…
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4/23 YAM: Singer (Unmated-I 5 of 13)
He is weeping over me / His tears fall like rain / Filling the holes in my heart / Like a well of living water…
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4/22 YAM: Farmer (Unmated-I 4 of 13)
I look to My Father. / He smiles / And holds out a cup / To collect my blood // Then pours it / Over the side / Of the mountain…
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4/21 YAM: Warrior (Unmated-I 3 of 13)
I am alone / Again / Still // I have regained my sword / But no armor / And only a single jewel / But no gold // How / Can I save a world / That seems determined / To destroy itself…
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4/20 YAM: Sailor (Unmated-I 2 of 13)
I thought / I was doing / What would secure my happiness / Bring me love / Expand His Kingdom // But now / It all seems in vain…
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4/19 YAM: Reader (Unmated-I 1 of 13)
Their brides appear / The animals dance / Or sing / Or strut / According to its kind / // They go off / To fulfill their purpose / But not me…
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4/18 IAM: Ascending (Lion King 5 of 5)
I look to His body / From my fallen position / Which has become a front row seat / For the miracle // The headless Body / Gropes toward Our Father / By pursuing the path / Of greatest pain…
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4/17 IAM: Exalted/Newsong (Lion King 4 of 5)
I have become a scavenger / Feeding on the dead body / Of Jesus // I slink away / As the hyenas who killed Him / Creep forward / And follow my example…
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4/16 IAM: Clean Afraid (Lion King 3 of 4)
I look at my heart./ And realize / It doesn’t matter what I should feel / But what I do feel / Grief…
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4/15 IAM: Re-Sourced (Lion King 2 of 5)
My Father came / When I cried out / But not / As I thought / To attack them / // Instead / He sings…
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4/14 IAM: Dependent (Lion King 1 of 5)
He comes like Rafiki the monkey / But not to berate me / Or make me look to myself / Or my ancestors…
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4/13 IAM: Fertilizing (Rocking 4 of 4)
He scoops me up / Sifts me like wheat / And pours me into the water / Flowing from the rock / Into the desert…
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4/12 IAM: Planning (Rocking 3 of 4)
For a moment / I panic / I can’t see Him / For all the corruption / In His Body…
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4/11 IAM: Opening (Rocking 2 of 4)
He is the River / Anyone who drinks this water / Will never thirst again / // But / There is a price…
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4/10 IAM: Deserted (Rocking 1 of 4)
We have no water / There is a spring… / But it is clogged / By an enormous rock / // Everyone expects me… / To strike it with my sword / (Or so I imagine) / // Instead…
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4/9 IAM: Making Rescuers (Trapped 3 of 3)
“You deserve to die / For what you have done / And for what you intended” // He nods / And grimaces / Expecting a killing blow…
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4/8 IAM: Disastrous (Trapped 2 of 3)
Not one of my foes / Is still standing // I feel slightly ashamed / For having feared them / Rather than pitied…
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4/7 IAM: Dance-Fighting (Trapped 1 of 3)
I look for Jesus. / He is right there / But not beside me / As I hoped / To defend me // He is before me…
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Goodbye, Resentment (Less Difficult Parts)
Your deeper reality is the reason you are triggered is that you lack the Grace (spiritual authority) necessary to reframe the situation (for either Them or you)
Radically Happy 