Radically Happy

Category: Devotional

  • 9/29 Poem: Vulner-Ability

    9/29 Poem: Vulner-Ability

    If as a hero 
 / I will have won her 
 / My superpower’s 
 / Ability “vulner”

  • 9/28 Limerick: Trigger Happy

    9/28 Limerick: Trigger Happy

    Hat tip to both Weird Al and the Skylander If we want our hearts to grow bigger We must learn to confront each trigger When my hidden pain Becomes Jesus’ gain We’ll overflow Joy — so I figger Today I will be happy When my amygdala show me Where You…

  • 9/27 Epic Poem: Right Brain Love

    9/27 Epic Poem: Right Brain Love

    Love that my flesh cannot feign 
 / Has to come from my right brain 
 / My left brain, it pains me to say 
 / Pretends love to force you to stay

  • 9/26 Poem: Spirit Feed

    Q. What could you do more of? A. Feed my Spirit, instead of my Flesh​

  • 9/25 Poem: Love Nose / Heaven Scent

    Lord I suppose 
 / I need a new nose 
 / That sniffs out Your love 
 / Wherever it goes

  • 9/24 Epic Poem: Re-Pent-Up (Christing)

    9/24 Epic Poem: Re-Pent-Up (Christing)

    For it’s my own religious pride
 / That zeal must burn up from inside
 / For it is the urge to condemn
 / That I have in common with them

  • 9/23 Limerick: No “More Words”

    When I am feeling unheard 
 / I’m tempted to try one more word…

  • 9/22 Limerick: Heart > Word

    Today I will rejoice / That my heart was heard

  • 9/21 Epic Poem: Radically Happy

    9/21 Epic Poem: Radically Happy

    And so far from just being cruel
 / God used my pain as a tool
 / To force me to dig deep inside
 / And find out I’m loved as His Bride

  • 9/20 Epic Poem: Gender Identity

    9/20 Epic Poem: Gender Identity

    Gender wars may have their place / But I choose to battle for grace

  • 9/19 Rhyme: Hot Fusion

    Hat tip to Cold Fusion “For our God is a consuming fire.” Hebrews 12:29 When I am stuck in confusion Let me melt into Your fusion Saturated by love’s diffusion Til all the world feels your effusion Today I will be undoneBy love

  • 9/18 Epic Poem: Missing Peace

    9/18 Epic Poem: Missing Peace

    No matter the sermons we preach
 / The lost of this world we won’t reach
 / Until they see crazy love
 / That only could come from above

  • 9/17 Poem: One In-Courage-Meant

    9/17 Poem: One In-Courage-Meant

    Today I receive the courage To lose everything To unite all things With Him If we want the world to be free We Christians must show unity But instead behind walls we hide Because our traditions divide

  • 9/16 Doggerel: Flow-er Power

    If we want to tap / Into God’s power / We must submit / To being His flower

  • 9/15 Limerick: F/Root

    If we want to bear Gospel fruit / We need to connect to Christ’s root / For as we abide / We become His Bride / By bearing a cross as our route!

  • 9/14 Poem: Fringe Benefit

    So they brought him all their sick, begging him to let them touch the fringe of his cloak. And everyone who touched it was instantly healed!

  • 9/13 Poem: Peace Meal

    Today I will feast / On what I kill

  • 9/12 Rap: Blood Flow

    Lord I wanna live in Your blood flow
 / Not trusting flesh to make me go
 / Don’t wanna be slave to my ego
 / When by its death I make You show…

  • 9/11 Limerick: A Salten Battery

    Lord I long to be a battery / That spreads living salt from inside of me / Though battered and bruised / This life I have choosed / For it paves the road to intimacy

  • 9/9 Limerick: I’m Potent

    When addiction tempts me with descent It’s because I’m feeling impotent But true agency Is Your life in me Raising us all by Your advent Today I will seekYour empowering adventMidst my frustrating descent