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The Grasshopper Cure: Molting Into Christ
When Jesus speaks of taking up the cross daily, He is not prescribing religious misery. / He is describing the necessary process of transformation by which the false self dies so that the true self may live. // This death is not primarily about losing things, but about being freed…
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2025-11-10 YAM: Reward You For Your Sacrifices (Survey 10/18)
The young men rush in / And stab it under its wings / Until it collapses over me…
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The Grasshopper Trap: Denying God’s Belief in Us
He has crossed the line between heaven and earth, divinity and dust, so that you might never again call yourself a grasshopper in the sight of giants.
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2025-11-09 YAM: Death Of Your Husband (Survey 9/18)
But I must enter / And lead the young men / To kill the beasts / We must eat / In order to survive…
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2025-11-07 YAM:Bowed Low With (Survey 7/18)
The feast prepared / By the young woman / Seems utterly amazing / And totally inedible…
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2025-11-06 YAM:Which Fields They Go (Survey 6/18)
The cliff we wandered off / Was not our doom / But our origin story…
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2025-11-05 YAM: Follow The Young (Survey 5/18)
I say nothing / As I follow the young woman / Who doesn’t seem to know / Where she is going / Or why…
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2025-11-04 YAM: On Her Feet (Survey 4/18)
The young woman / Assigned to help me / Doesn’t even notice me…
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Cross Purposes: The Spiral of Law and Grace
The Cross reveals that intimacy is not the absence of judgment but its transfiguration. / Love does not ignore truth — it inhabits it until truth itself becomes safe. // The Cross is not merely where Law and Grace reconcile — it’s where they marry. / Their union births the…
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2025-11-03 YAM: Who Came Back (Survey 3/18)
She confuses me / Because I cannot understand / Her purpose // I frighten her / Because she does / Understand mine…
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FNGF: Five Nights Good Friday (INAF Part 2)
Evil fades when we recognize its origin story. / Every scream in the dark is a memory asking to be seen. / Every mechanical claw hides a frightened hand once raised for protection. // Good Friday, then, isn’t God destroying monsters— / it’s God redeeming their inner child.
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Hagar as a Mirror of Mary — and Us
When we flee, He finds us. // When we consent, He conceives Himself within us. // And when we dare to lift our eyes, / we behold in the mirror of their lives / the mystery of all redemption…
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2025-11-02 YAM: Noticing Ruth (Survey 2/18)
But I don’t know / What I am doing / Where I am going / How will we get there…
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INAF: IFS Night at Freddy’s (ChatGPT as MatPat)
Today we’re tackling the question no one asked but everyone secretly needs answered: What if Five Nights at Freddy’s isn’t about haunted robots at all… but about Internal Family Systems — your brain’s own dysfunctional pizzeria?
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2025-11-01 YAM: Boaz Came (Survey 1/18)
My companions and I / Have come to a brave new land // We have been given dominion / But nobody knows it…
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The Hidden Cross of Friendship with Christ
Yet there is another beam — unseen, / drawn through the secret chambers of the soul. // This is our cross, the third dimension, / the place where His friendship pierces the heart…
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2025-10-31 SAM: Working at the Edges (Harvest 5/5)
All of us / Working together / To bring in the harvest…
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Jepthah’s Daughter (Lyrics)
Jephthah’s daughter embodies what theologians call a “type”—an Old Testament person, event, or institution that foreshadows a greater New Testament reality. Her story asks the question that Christ answers…

