Radically Happy

Foreman Ezra: (frustrated) We’re out of brass. My workers will sit idle, and the entire tabernacle’s completion will be delayed. I don’t want to be the one to tell Chief Bezaleel or Moses.

My alienated selves… / 
Stumble and fall / 
As the ruined temple / 
Is reborn / 
As a mountainous upthrust…

“Did you think / God was only in the light? / Have you not considered / You were left for a purpose?”

I see nothing / But the Spirit whispers / “Look with the eyes of your heart”

We plunge through / The surface beauty / Of my heart / Into the deep darkness / I had forgotten existed…

I watch in sorrow / 
As my most precious institutions / 
Crumble under the enemy assault…

It sounds impossible, but I believe I’ve seen it happen. And I’ve managed to convince ChatGPT. :-)

I am trembling with rage / How dare He / Doesn’t He know / How must we sacrificed / To build that position?

The emphasis is on identifying and addressing the emotional triggers first, followed by taking responsibility and fostering empathy and validation.

My heart is a planet / 
The darkness / 
The cloud of enemy / 
Spaceships…

So I open the door / And look inside // All I see… / Is blackness

What am I looking for? / Why is it so hard to find? // I look to Jesus. / He points directly at my heart…

But / 
I didn’t see Him / 
Trust Him / 
Recognize Him…

What would it look like if I treated those I consider God’s enemies, the way He treats me? / I very much fear it would mean giving up my self-righteousness, emotional distance, and self-protective confidence in my own judgement…

MIC Check Today’s Most Important Challenge is… Immanuel Approach Memo Continued from 5/13 IAM: Un-Orphaned I am… speechless. The Good NewsJesus asked me to give awayIs me On the newspapersHe gave me to distributeIs my pictureIn full living colorAbove the caption “Local boy gives life to save city”

I am a little sad / 
I have to wait / 
But more excited / 
I finally have something / 
Worth waiting for…

Secretly / 
I rejoice in bad news / 
Because I profit from it…

I try to push them / Back to safety / But that / Just makes them more nervous / And they scatter…

I must enter into His rest
 / Before I can give it to others…

“Do not deprive them / 
Of their glory / 
Do not judge / 
What you don’t understand”