Radically Happy

He carries me out / Naked and vulnerable / Into the cold… // He digs a deep hole / Dank / Smelly / And plunges me in…

All this / Was just the story / Of how Jesus / Destroys evil / Inside me // Which IS / How Jesus / Destroys evil / In the world…

Gone are the hidden rooms / Secret gardens / Castles in the air / Actually, not entirely gone / Reborn… / Like me

All the seeds that were planted / 
Slowly begin to germinate / 
Sprouts claw their way upward / 
Towards unseen light…

All of us / Who were pillars / And stayed with Jesus / Have been reduced to our basic atoms…

He is breaking me up / With His song / Even though it threatens / To unravel everything / He placed me to protect…

Will the building / 
Where we hid / 
From the vengeance of Jesus / 
Be destroyed / 
Or exalted?

I start shaking / “Lord, this acid can destroy kings” // He winks / “Of course. / It is my Blood.”

I am sorely tempted to wear the crown / But something warns me not to

MIC Check Today’s Most Important Challenge is… Immanuel Approach Memo Continued from 3/19 IAM: Guard(en)ed I am… inside a beautiful garden I feel like we should be indoorsAt midnightBut it looks like noontime daylightAnd I no longer see any wallsNot even the door we came in through I am holding…

The screams were demons / Shrieking from the holy water / That burns evil spirits like acid / While leaving humans unharmed / (Though few realize it)

Outside, I hear screams / As justice is served / With a brutal even-handedness / I look for Jesus. / But He is not here / He is outside / He is both the executioner / And the executed…

I am horrified / I look at Him like He is crazy / I’ve seen the movie / Corpses crawling out of graves / Zombies hungering for our flesh…

I un-sing / All the Song fragments / That sustain / And ruin / Our city…

The people above / 
Were trying to dance / 
To the music / 
But kept crashing into those / 
Who sang a different part / 
Of the same Song…