Radically Happy

Category: Devotional

  • 3/30 Limerick: An Eye for I AM

    If I’m to see this world transformed / My vision must needs be reformed / No more eye of shame / Let me take the blame / So in us Christ’s cross is here formed

  • 3/29 Limerick: Power Surge

    Your Body’s been bleeding for years / As each lost sheep disappears / But if we touch Your hem / The power to love them / Will shine through the joy in our tears

  • 3/28 Limerick: Wake Jesus

    When I’m adrift in this lake / Help me, Lord, to see Your wake / You’re not still asleep / Your promise you’ll keep / For even death’s glory, you’ll take!

  • 3/27 Limericks: New Skin Whine

    The voice of our flesh
 / Refuses what’s fresh
 / And clings with a death-grip to “Mine!”

  • 3/26 Poem: Mess. I? Ah!

    The reason I need a MessiahIs because of the, quote, “Mess I Are”It feels like I’m fighting a hydraMy striving will not get me far

  • 3/25 Limerick: Gift Withholding

    If You are withholding Your gift
 / Maybe it’s due to our rift
 / It’s always worthwhile
 / That we reconcile
 / To show the world we get Your drift!

  • 3/24 Limericks: HyperSense

    And how can I act
 / When meaning is lacked
 / And cost of failure immense?

  • 3/23 Limerick: God-Pardner

    Lord, I want God as my pardner So I can best do what I oughter With you at my side I’m your secure Bride And we raise the world like our daughter! So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees…

  • 3/22 Lyrics: He Wills

    HE WILL always love you
 / Though you might not believe it
 / HE WILL give good blessings
 / Yet you might not receive it

  • 3/21 Poem: Revealing Love

    No wonder we struggle with pain
 / Despite all the prayers we have kneeled
 / Our eyes cannot bear the hard truth
 / Of how much for us God has feeled

  • 3/20 Limerick: Marvel, Heroes

    We are not all of us heroes But we can still testify, “He rose!” When Grace triumphs Law He fills us with awe And calls us to cast nets while He rows

  • 3/19 Limerick: God Bless My Foes

    Blessings on all of my foes!
 / For even the worst of my woes
 / Serve but to reveal
 / The pain that I feel
 / Is what brings the healing Christ chose

  • 3/18 Limerick: Lighten Up

    Lord, help me to lighten up Even as I drink from Your cup The bitter tastes sweet Knowing we’ll meet At the time of the final sup

  • 3/17 Limericks: Word Choke

    I know it may sound like a joke But sometimes on Your Word I choke The truth that I find O’erwhelms my mind Fearing that I’ll end up broke Lord plow up the soil of my heart Make me the place where you start Sowing your joy So we destroy…

  • 3/16 RSVP: Salt Mine

    Lord, now that I’ve left Your ocean 
 / I find myself struck by the notion 
 / That salt is the thing that I lack 
 / For which I must always go back

  • 3/15 Limerick: Unfolding Mystery

    The story which our lives make told 
 / Is one which must slowly unfold 
 / The mystery seems dark 
 / But grace is the spark 
 / That unveils the path we enrolled

  • 3/14 Limericks: Burn Out/In

    The cure for burnout is burn-in: 
 / First finding the failures within 
 / Our need to be used 
 / Will leave us confused 
 / Twixt service and slavery to sin

  • 3/13 Limerick: Dance Floor

    This world has its ups and its downs
 / Sometimes tis more crosses than crowns
 / But even its worst
 / Makes me for you thirst
 / Your dance is the floor to my frowns

  • 3/12 Limerick: Evil Lies

    Lord, help me to realize / The essence of evil is lies / The pain that we feel / Though it seems real / Is actually grace is disguise!

  • 3/11 RSVP: Impossibly Obedient

    Lord, if I’m being honest 
 / I’m starting to doubt what you promised… // But maybe that’s really the point /
Of how You train those you anoint