Category: Devotional
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11/8 Limerick: Power Law
If we wish to grow exponentially / We must stop acting preferentially
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11/7 Bi-Limericks: Feel My Heat
Hat tip to Imagine Dragons Jesus when to You I’m near It’s intoxicating like beer The warmth of Your touch Fills me with much Hunger to overcome fear Father let this be the day I start to love others that way With Your presence felt May frozen hearts melt As…
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11/6 Limerick: Appoint-Meant
Luke 19:5 When Jesus came to that place, He looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, hurry down, for I must stay at your house today.” To live the life God has designed We must do His work pre-assigned When we give Him room He unseals our doom As His love unblinds…
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11/5 Tri-Quatrains: Un-Wise Words
Lord you must open my eyes / So I can see I’m un-wise / My cleverness became a snare / That keeps me from seeing what’s there
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11/3 Limerick: I-AM-Possible
But Jesus said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” Luke 18:27 When I am facing a crucible I’m trapped by my adjacent possible But God breaks the dam By being I AM And showing me I’m not responsible Today I will sacrifice my responsibility At the feet…
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11/2 Tri-Limerick: Standard Measures
If Christ is our goal / Let’s make Him the sole / Focus of our work and pleasures
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11/1 Limerick: Drawn Together
James 4:8a: Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Lord sometimes I feel like a wretch An amateur’s half-finished sketch But then I repeat: I’m made incomplete So that into You I stretch Today I will be drawn into Christ
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10/31 Poem: As Your Self
The hardest question / God calls from above: / First ask your Self / Which Self do “I” love?
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10/30 Epic Poem: Pater Tots (AITR/COTS)
Maturity shown / In dark secrecy / In public is seen / As vulnerability
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10/29 Poem: Key Pair
The crux of the question I face / Is how to fulfill Law with Grace / Such that when my ego fails / I’ll know that Christ’s Kingdom prevails
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10/28 Epic Poem: Vulnera-Bold
Yet that is the why Satan still rules: / Our terror of looking like fools / By shutting down part of our brain / Hell’s able to act with free rein
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Anthem: Follow The Way Of Christ (Becoming “Foot-Washers”)
To be a “Christian” / Has become a crutch / Though I still love / That old word so much
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10/26 Epic Poem: Daily Exorcise Program
…If we would escape / Such self-sabotage / We must first detect / His [Satan’s] soul-camouflage…
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10/25 Poem: Gate Expectations
Hat tip to the Dickens I’m deeply embarrassed to state How my expectations do gate The gifts which You so long to give That I may abundantly live
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10/24 Bi-Limerick: Kingdom Inside-Out
The reason we curse what’s outside Is secretly to serve our pride The wrong that I feel Fills me with zeal Against those who to me have lied While children react to their pain The wise make it fuel for our gain The evil inside Must be crucified So we…
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10/23: The Holy Truth, And Nothing But
I want a truth worth my bets / The kind that our freedom begets / Truth that digs deep in my soul / So I can reach the right goal…
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10/21 Limerick: Free Joy
In times where hate seeks to destroy / Disciples must learn to free joy / In Christ’s holy nation / Fear’s self-preservation / Gives way to the cross we employ
Radically Happy 