Radically Happy

  • DBJ-P139: 3rd Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice

    This Tuesday, August 17th we finish our summer 2021 Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice series meditating on emotional security via Psalm 139, incorporating elements of DBJ AGONY Edition.

  • DBJ “AGONY” Edition

    Absorb Scripture Guided Memories Observe Feelings Name the Pain Yield to Jesus

  • A Word for America, by John Dayalan Edward

    [A prophetic word from my cousin, an American citizen who leads a team of missionaries in India. — Ernie P.] Attached are some of the thoughts God has given for the States. Usually, the word of knowledge comes in part and sharing it at the right place brings greater clarity.…

  • Dream: Chocolate Shop Fail

    I am in a cavernous store, the size of COSTCO. It is basically a tourist trap. Actually part of a series. In a resort. In the mountains. This one is a candy store. Each day they take us to a different one. I wasn’t interested so I wandered off.

  • Playlist DBJ-GTEM: Going The Extra Mile

    Overcoming enmity, by going the extra mile, in order to grow us all closer to Jesus. See also: DBJ-SHON: Salome’s Honor DBJ-MOGA: Moses Overcomes God’s Anger (Exodus 32)

  • Prayer: The Right of Intercession

    When there is nothing constructive leftTo learn, think through, or repentI must do the work of an intercessorAnd trust God for what happens next

  • Christlike Response to Accusations

    Meditations from my cousin, John Dayalan Edward. It’s in moments of great weakness we discover His strength as we are turned towards HimAnd it is moments of brokenness that brings out the best of fragrance from us, as we are at His feet. 

  • Dream: Trap-ped

    It is a hot day.I leave my dog in the car.

  • DBJ-PS73: 2nd Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice

    This Tuesday, July 27th we reprise our Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice by meditating on justice and injustice via Psalm73.

  • DBJ-MOGA+: Moses and other Redeemers

    Supplemental verses for Moses Overcoming God’s Anger

  • Dream: Yellow Candy Grace

    My friend and I are hard-luck kids In Sunday School He’s dying of cancer. The teachers try to take an offering Of the bright yellow candy we both like But rarely get

  • Dream: Checking-Out

    The Takeaway The fear of God should “pressure” me To prioritize treating my family With the fruits of the spirit Even over accomplishing What I thought He told me to do.

  • Dream: Love Story

    There is a story within the story One story is a fairy tale. Sort of like Beauty and the Beast.

  • DBJ-MOGA: Moses Overcomes God’s Anger (Exodus 32)

    Register now! At 2-4pm on Sunday, July 18th we will ask Jesus to disciple us through one of the most confusing and disturbing passages in all of Scripture, at least to me: Exodus 32, where Moses apparently talks God out of destroying His people. Google Slides

  • DBJ-ECC3: Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice

    This Wednesday (June 30, 2021) I invite you to join me in encountering God’s wisdom in Ecclesiastes 3, as part of the Bay Area Summer Peer Mentoring group for the Octet Collaborative.

  • Dream: Lost In Transit

    Dream: Lost In Transit

    We are passengers on a lost flight Or maybe we knew someone who was Or maybe we are just pretending.

  • Breaking The Grievance Circuit

    SixSeconds EQ is named for the fact that the initial emotional response to an external trigger only lasts about six seconds. I have noticed that certain triggers activate a self-perpetuating “grievance circuit” in my mind. This keeps a narrative justifying my resentment circulating in my mind; because I don’t know…

  • Poem: Love in the Shadow

    It is easy to love when you walk in the light When everything’s clear, and the future is bright And all can agree on what’s wrong and what’s right

  • Dream: Terror Hoops

    Arena I am in an Arena. At least in the building. I’m backstage, on the edge of the Court. Watching a man go out to be arrested. A former basketball player. He was going to blow the place up. I helped turn him in. I’m hoping he forgives me. That…

  • DBJ-2021-06-25: Reconciling Reformers

    Playlist: Salome’s Honor