Radically Happy

Category: Devotional

  • 12/30 Tri-Limerick: The “Re” Store

    12/30 Tri-Limerick: The “Re” Store

    It’s costly to enter the place 
 / Where we can freely find grace

  • 12/29 Limerick: Winning Handily

    The truth that we must understand / Is victory‘s already at hand / When our crowns we fling / His Kingdom we bring / As out of our hearts, He expand

  • 12/28 Poem: Noise to Signal

    The lies and addictions we face / 
Are actually clues we can trace…

  • 12/27 Epic Poem: Care Bearer

    12/27 Epic Poem: Care Bearer

    know that I should / 
Believe God is good / 
Yet I confess / 
I oft believe less…

  • 12/26 Limerick: Holimess (O Easter Tree)

    Hat tip to O Tannenbaum Lord it is so hard to see How to become the best version of me Perhaps because I First have to die For presents under the Easter tree Today I will receiveEvery good and perfect giftNo matter the cost

  • 12/25 Bi-Limerick: Under-Known

    “The Savior—yes, the Messiah, the Lord—has been born today in Bethlehem, the city of David! And you will recognize him by this sign: You will find a baby wrapped snugly in strips of cloth, lying in a manger.”‬‬ ‭‭Luke‬ ‭2‬:‭11‬-‭12‬ ‭NLT It’s easy to point out a king When he…

  • 11/24 Limerick: Eye Burn

    Today I will let the heart of JesusBurn up my “me” Jesus is so hard to see When I’m consumed by my “me” Please open my eyes So I realize That You’re the heart burning in me

  • 11/23 Limerick: Feet of Courage

    Today I will hold on Til I can hold up Lord it is really quite neat How You bring joy from defeat When I know You’re near I cast away fear Testifying we’ll soon meet!

  • 12/22 Limerick: Wound Up

    Hat tip to windup Today I will let Jesus pitch me His wounds If we’re to break out of our walls And answer the Lord when He calls Then let us be found As Christ’s getting wound To pitch us as gracious fastballs!

  • 12/21 Bi-Limerick: Mis-Finding Jesus

    Q. When are you most happy? A. When I confront grief, only to discover joy.

  • 12/20 Quatrain: Curtain Call

    The light from the sun was gone. And suddenly, the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn down the middle Luke 23:45 The veil from the temple was torn So our new life could be born Yet holiest holies inside Are still only seen when we’ve died Today…

  • 12/19 Poem: Choosing Sides

    Those whom Christ chose / 
To become His Bride / 
Need to take on / 
A whole ‘nother side

  • 12/18 Limerick: Consummate

    Love on the cross is heart break / But that is the chance we must take / For when it is done / We’ve finally begun / The joy that makes heaven and earth shake

  • 12/17 Epic Poem: Three-Saken, Five-Saken

    12/17 Epic Poem: Three-Saken, Five-Saken

    This turns into pure agony / 
When we reach Sakenness Three / 
And I learn God is not me / 
Kneeling in Gethsemane…

  • 12/16 Limerick: Entrusted

    When worlds are being torn apart / 
That’s when we must open our heart / 
The Christ that I see / 
Binds you to me / 
So true communion can start

  • 12/15 Quatrain: Crossing to Paradise

    It’s easy to trust in a Boss / 
That we know has conquered the grave / 
Yet trusting while still on the cross / 
Demands we become much more brave

  • 12/14 Tri-Limerick: Fore-Given

    Today I will give up / 
What was given down / 
Fore me

  • 12/13 Limerick: In Place of the Skull

    I tend to protect my brain / To save myself from the pain / Of being set free / From identity / Though with my Savior I’d reign

  • 12/12 Bi-Quatrain: Seem Less

    Lord I could never dare dream / 
That You would take one for the team / 
By humbling Your self so to seem / 
So far below heaven’s gleam…

  • 12/11 Tri-Quatrain: Be Held

    Why is it so hard to see / The love that Your heart holds for me? / …maybe I don’t want to face / My horrific need for Your grace /