Radically Happy

  • Redeeming Animism, Part 5: Eagle Sighs

    Redeeming Animism, Part 5: Eagle Sighs

    Qhuinn: I believe the correct canine response is: “Grr, stay away from me and my friends!” A. Ooh, you can talk. Who’s a cute puppy? Who’s a cute puppy! Q. I say, stop that. I’m not actually a dog. No, please, not the feathers. I’m really the incarnation of… Ooh!…

  • Poem: Care More

    For only then we see 
How heaven draws the line 
Whether I am helping others 
Or just easing suffering mine

  • Poem: Fruitful Vintimacy

    We start by knowing we’re loved 
Then loving Him in return 
As His life flows through our veins 
Our sin and shame, away burn

  • Poem: Out of Favor

    In families small Or social wide To save our face We take a side To break this cycle Of decay We need to find A better way

  • Hate Right

    And all of those foes That I once found so dreary I count now as gifts In fact, make me cheery! So the only hate now Is what I have toward The sin of my flesh That keeps me from my Lord

  • Transcending Love

    If I don’t believe you rejoice in my presence, I will naturally either become desperate for your approval, or find ways to denigrate the worth of your opinion. This is how we sort ourselves into tribes. This is how we feel safe. This is how… we crucify Christ.

  • Pandora Unboxed (The Inverse of Narcissism)

    Pandora Unboxed (The Inverse of Narcissism)

    This is my quest. This is how I cure my own narcissism. By aligning my identity — my shame and sublimation — with its own undoing.

  • For Father’s Day (From Andrew Williams)

    This Father’s Day (and Juneteenth) I am reblogging a post from my friend and hero, Andrew Williams. Dear Dad, I know it’s been since 2009 that you’ve been gone. My hope is to see you again in heaven some day. I am writing a letter that has been … For…

  • Poem: Redemption Value

    Our value to this world Is only what we’ve earned Trapped inside a rat race Measured by Law instead of Grace

  • Poem: Mind Settler

    To set our mind On kingdom things Requires a Settler Who’s a King

  • Poem: Belong vs Beshort vs Betall

    If in Christ We’d be free From its snares We must flee But the next Trap we face Is to judge Without grace

  • Where Grief Begins

    The Loss Is Real And Final And yet… Nothing begins Until something else ends

  • Poem: Yoke-I-Bear

    Is Christ’s “easy yoke” More than a sick joke?

  • Immanuel Encounter: KnowsMore Redeemed

    For being a Redeemer In My Image Is learning How to be filled And emptied To create space For Me If you had only received Good You would never need to be emptied And you would never have known Or needed My Grace And Salvation That I purchased With My…

  • 6/12 RSVP: Un-Binding Pharisees

    It is easy To identify To despise To fear Pharisees Much harder To redeem one Much harder To recognize We might be one

  • (Active) Listening to Part Of Me

    E. Okay, here’s the next question: what makes it hard to believe God might give that to you? K. That’s a stupid question! E. … Um, do you need a Moment?

  • Judicious Interruptus: I, KnowsMore

    Reflective introspection journaling 
To help me understand why 
I failed to manifest 
The fruit of the Spirit 
And where I need 
More Jesus

  • Requiem for The Flesh

    Because the same instincts 
Shame uses 
To save our lives 
From dying 
It uses 
To save itself 
From the cross

  • Mighty Weak

    Only when we are weak 
In ourselves 
Can we be mighty 
In Him

  • LifeView: Part-y of God [from iHack]

    Over on my professional blog iHack, I’ve been working through the excellent book Designing Your Life. In addition to articulating a philosophy of work (WorkView), they challenge us to write down a philosophy of life (LifeView). Since that obviously overlaps with my spiritual journaling here, I decided to repost it.…