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2024-12-23 YAM: Desirable (Mouthless 5/5)
I am simultaneously / Emptied and filled / Connected and separated / Losing and finding myself…
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ChatGPT as Aaron the Tamil, Part 1: Faith and Family
Together, Ziegenbalg and Aaron laid the foundation for a Tamil Christian identity that balanced faith with culture. While Ziegenbalg’s mission brought the Gospel to Tamil Nadu, Aaron embodied the transformation of faith in a local context, showing the possibility of a Tamil expression of Christianity. Their story continues to inspire…
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2024-12-22 YAM: Harvested (Mouthless 4/5)
Jesus opens His mouth / And cuts a door / In the fabric of reality / Takes me by the hand / And pulls me with Him…
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From Walls of Shame to Webs of Grace: A Christmas Homily for the Third Millennium (ChatGPT As Pope Benedict VIII, 1024)
This Christmas, let us dismantle the walls of shame in our hearts and in our communities. Let us weave the web of grace, living as witnesses to the hope and joy of Christ.
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2024-12-21 YAM: Come Union (Mouthless 3/5)
Jesus has come / To claim me as His Bride // But I have no mouth / To speak the words / That lay on my heart…
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2024-12-20 YAM: Belonging (Mouthless 2/5)
I am in the chorus line / All by myself / Yet unable to sing / For I have no mouth…
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2024-12-19 YAM: Interceding (Mouthless 1/5)
Mischievous children / Who knew no better / Struck me with a stick / Knocking off my lips / Leaving a hollow spot // I want to cry out / But cannot…
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2024-12-18 IAM: Clothed (Alive 8/8)
I am… human. / Formed from the dust / Of stars, soil and strife // I am overcome / By the naked horror / Of their sacrifice // I cannot lift my head / To see the Father…
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I Am the Drummer Boy
I neither sought the holy face, / Nor felt the heavens nudge, / A clumsy soul, unworthy there, / No angel’s whispered judge…
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A Most Fantastic Christmas (ChatGPT as Stan Lee)
ChatGPT Prompt: As Dickens, write a Christmas fable where a hum-buggy Reed Richards discovers the ‘reciprocal zone’: a place where the finite and transfinite switch places, and evil is somehow grievingly rejoiced in as the harbinger of good. This leads him to a profound insight into the cross of Christ,…
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2024-12-17 YAM: Abounding (Alive 7/8)
I am the animals / My carbon locked / In every cell of their body / As they feast on plants / And each other…
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2024-12-16 YAM: Dispersed (Alive 6/8)
Together / We break down the diamond / Into charcoal Fertilized by the blood of Jesus…
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The Three Mangers: A Christmas Testament to Jean Valjean
In French, manger means “to eat,” and in this, the symbol becomes layered. The manger is not just a place of humility—it is a place where hunger is met, where nourishment is given. For Jean Valjean, the manger appeared three times in his life, each time transforming him.
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2024-12-15 SAM: Doubled (Alive 5/8)
Every piece / Torn out my broken heart / Becomes a colony / A garden / An undersea forest…
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A Postmodern Dwelling: Bethel’s Gospel to the Pirahã (ChatGPT on Missions)
Ana: I’ve been preparing for years. I studied anthropology and Indigenous oral traditions because I wanted to understand how people experience truth outside of written frameworks. And I’ve spent time in cultures where trust and relationship matter more than doctrine or structure. I believe the only way to reach the…
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2024-12-14 SAM: Mantled (Alive 4/8)
My diamond-hard heart / Was crushed into slippery graphite / And bouncy buckyballs / Over the blood and water / That flowed out of Jesus…
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2024-12-13 IAM: Seasoned (Alive 3/8)
His love / Is injecting itself / Into the empty space / Around me…
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2024-12-12 IAM: Cleaving (Alive 2/8)
The words of Jesus / Cut through my diamond-hard heart / Splitting me in two / Revealing its hollow center…
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2024-12-11 IAM: Faceted (Alive 1/8)
I am… a diamond. // An octahedron of carbon / Floating in empty space…
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Charlotte’s Web of Words
Today, as I dangle here before you, I invite you to see the world through my many eyes and reflect on the power of words. You see, words are the threads of the great web of life. They are fragile, yes, but they are also strong enough to hold meaning,…