Radically Happy

  • 1/26 IAM: Train-Braker

    1/26 IAM: Train-Braker

    I am dressed as a gambler / Slick / Confident / Appearing rich / Though I’m actually poor…

  • 1/25 IAM: Living Large

    1/25 IAM: Living Large

    I look for Jesus / He is climbing a tree / I whistle in amazement // How does he do that / When there are no branches / And even the bark is smooth?

  • 1/24 IAM: Dawn-Finder

    1/24 IAM: Dawn-Finder

    Which is when I realize / The only way to see Jesus / Is to be consciously looking for Him / At our point of maximum pain…

  • 1/23 IAM: Live Wire

    1/23 IAM: Live Wire

    I see no light / 
But He does / 
And by that / 
I can see Him

  • 1/22 IAM: A-Biding My Time

    1/22 IAM: A-Biding My Time

    I can barely see them / But I can hear their footsteps / Coming towards me / Towards the light / The light of Jesus / Though they can’t yet see Him / Only me…

  • 1/21 IAM: Fear Warning

    1/21 IAM: Fear Warning

    Part of me is hoping He will show up in an ocean liner / To take me away / Because this situation is insane

  • 1/20 IAM: Unplotted

    1/20 IAM: Unplotted

    I know opening the door / Could unleash what’s on the other side / And destroy me / And everything I love…

  • 1/19 IAM: Consummate

    1/19 IAM: Consummate

    Usually Billy hears and obeys him / Sometimes he does not // Jesus looks up at me / Makes eye contact / And winks…

  • 1/18 IAM: Vision, Adjusted

    1/18 IAM: Vision, Adjusted

    I am floating. / Perhaps in water or air so thick and cloudy everything seems blurry. / Or maybe it’s just my eyesight. / Or my “I” sight.

  • 1/17 IAM: In a Mirror, Darkly (NotMe)

    1/17 IAM: In a Mirror, Darkly (NotMe)

    It is my evil twin. / My negative. / A twisted, perverse condemning version of myself. / That is not how God sees me. / I am in Christ. / Right? / Right? / Right?!?!

  • 1/16 IAM: Cycling Down

    1/16 IAM: Cycling Down

    I look for Jesus / 
And see Him in my heart / 
Riding a stationary bicycle / 
Laughing hilariously

  • 1/15 IAM: Walking On Air

    1/15 IAM: Walking On Air

    Jesus is waking bedside me. / I am not exactly afraid. / But I glance down only rarely.

  • MIC Check: Immanuel Approach Memo

    As we head into Lent 2024 — in the midst of new wars, political division, and broken families and lives — I am feeling God’s urgency to be more strategic in my daily devotionals.

  • 1/14 IAM: Under the Sea (Immanuel Approach Memo)

    1/14 IAM: Under the Sea (Immanuel Approach Memo)

    There are no words here / So I must closely watch His face / And read His eyes / Interpret His every gesture…

  • 1/13 Bi-Limerick: Isaiah’s Horse

    1/13 Bi-Limerick: Isaiah’s Horse

    IsMe (hat tip to the children’s riddle)

  • Gut Check, Inc.

    Gut Check, Inc.

    I find myself on another plane of existence. Talking to some sort of a stomach thing. GutBrain: I am not some mere “thing.” I am a highly-evolved neural complex. Far older than you, you neo-cortical whippersnapper!

  • Immanuel Encounter: On The Beach

    Immanuel Encounter: On The Beach

    He takes a piece of His own broken, nail-scarred body and places it in my mouth.

  • 1/12 Couplets: PraiseQuake

    At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke. Isaiah 6:4 If we want this world to remake We must dare invoke the PraiseQuake

  • 1/11 Limerick: Gloriously Unseeable

    What do the seraphim know / 
That’s hidden to us far below?

  • 1/10 Limerick: Holy Light

    Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. Isaiah 6:2 ‘Gainst gravity, to win the fight We first need to make our hearts light When holiness burns Our wings we earns…