Category: Devotional
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12/10 Limerick: Crowning Gory
John 19:2: The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe. If I’m to be one You anoint I too must be pierced by this point The glory I seek Is painfully meek But that’s how we will rule…
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12/9 Limerick: Status Chains
The norms that help us avoid strife Save our homeostatical life Yet that is the pain We must face to gain The status of being Christ’s wife Today I will dare to see The Face of God Even if it destroys me “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law…
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12/8 Limerick: Blood Relative
When our amygdalae flood / Come seal our hearts with Your blood / With forgiveness near / All we hold dear / Falls of our souls like dry mud
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12/7 Quad-Limerick: Helping Jesus (Pan-Co-Theism)
We’re each a non-fungible token / Of our Lord’s body once broken
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12/6 Limerick: Hearternity
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11 To save the world that’s in front of meI must fix my heart on eternityWhen Christ…
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12/5 Poem: Un-Answer-Able
For somewhere deep in my childhood / I learned just how to perform / Proving how well I understood / Was a way I could conform
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12/4 Poem: Undeniable
What kind of person would I / Have to be not to deny / A Savior who seems to have failed / So I myself am not jailed?
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12/2 Tri-Quatrain: Choose to Lose
Hat tip to Crazy Rich Asians. “The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take…
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12/1 Tri-Quatrain: Watch, Man!
“Jesus answered: Watch out and don’t let anyone fool you!” Mark 13:5 CEV “See the new world I AM making Even through yours and heart breaking I made all of this like a pot For purposes you have forgot This life ain’t a prison for painNor pleasures that don’t need…
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11/30 Quad-Quatrain: The Ugliest Habit
Yet in Christ’s Kingdom the one / That brings us close to the Son / Which He commands we employ / Is full of both horror and joy
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11/29 Tri-Quatrain: Back-Handed Friendship
What kind of friend / Will help me to mend / The cruelest of lies / When Him I denies…
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11/28 Haiku: Piece Broker
And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” Luke 22:19 Body once broken Has become our peace token New life unspoken Today I will break good
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11/27 Haiku: Coal-ed Hearts
Hat tip to The Lonely Ember Fire fills my cold heart Love burns walls that keep apart We God’s Kingdom start “Be careful that you never allow your hearts to grow cold. Be careful that you are not caught off guard, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing,…
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11/26 Bi-Limerick: Time to (Fig) Leave
Today I will leave my shame / At the cross of Christ / So Others can leave theirs / At mine
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11/24 Tri-Limerick: Stone-Cornered
Today I will let His word / Break everything off me / That is not Him
Radically Happy 