Radically Happy

Category: Poetic

  • 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

  • 3/10 Poem: March Heir

    For vulnerability’s key /
To drawing you closer to me /
In losing my need to control /
I’m saving both my and your soul

  • 3/9 Poem: Mourning Broken

    We are each one broken part 
 / Of your once unbroken heart

  • 3/8 Gangsta Rap: Kingdom Rich

    Matthew 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” [Warning: Explicit Language]

  • 3/7 Limerick+: Laugh at the Devil

    I stick my neck out like giraffe 
 / When I dare at Satan to laugh

  • 3/6 Limerick: Re-Named

    The key to a life that is free Is knowing just how You see me Your gift of a name Unlocks all my shame By nailing it onto Christ’s tree!

  • 3/5 Poem: Building Trust (Towering Loss)

    Lord, though we’re made from the dust / We long to build towers of trust // There’s no evil in that desire / And yet we are playing with fire…

  • 3/4 Limerick: C4 UR Self

    If I’m to get Christ off the shelves / I must help you see for yourselves

  • 3/3 Limerick: Waitless

    There’s seasons we must learn to wait By standing outside a locked gate But this is the year To cast away fear And prove love is stronger than hate

  • 3/2 Limericks: By His Side

    Since Jesus called us His Bride 
 / We long to be by His side // Yet there’s so much more to this vow…

  • 3/1 Prose: Loving Thoughts

    What if the whole purpose of creation is to enable us to fall deeply in love with Jesus?

  • 2/28 Poem: Stepway to Heaven

    The pathway to heaven / Is not a long stair