Radically Happy

  • Incarnating Christ (ChatGPT as Max Lucado)

    ChatGPT, turn this concept into a one-page sermon in the style of Max Lucado.

  • 12/14 Tri-Limerick: Fore-Given

    Today I will give up / 
What was given down / 
Fore me

  • 12/13 Limerick: In Place of the Skull

    I tend to protect my brain / To save myself from the pain / Of being set free / From identity / Though with my Savior I’d reign

  • 12/12 Bi-Quatrain: Seem Less

    Lord I could never dare dream / 
That You would take one for the team / 
By humbling Your self so to seem / 
So far below heaven’s gleam…

  • 12/11 Tri-Quatrain: Be Held

    Why is it so hard to see / The love that Your heart holds for me? / …maybe I don’t want to face / My horrific need for Your grace /

  • 12/10 Limerick: Crowning Gory

    John 19:2: The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe. If I’m to be one You anoint I too must be pierced by this point The glory I seek Is painfully meek But that’s how we will rule…

  • 12/9 Limerick: Status Chains

    The norms that help us avoid strife Save our homeostatical life Yet that is the pain We must face to gain The status of being Christ’s wife Today I will dare to see The Face of God Even if it destroys me “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law…

  • 12/8 Limerick: Blood Relative

    When our amygdalae flood / 
Come seal our hearts with Your blood / 
With forgiveness near / 
All we hold dear / 
Falls of our souls like dry mud

  • 12/7 Quad-Limerick: Helping Jesus (Pan-Co-Theism)

    12/7 Quad-Limerick: Helping Jesus (Pan-Co-Theism)

    We’re each a non-fungible token / 
Of our Lord’s body once broken

  • Dream: Fan Ceiling (Soup Money)

    Dream: Fan Ceiling (Soup Money)

    I am a student in a dormWith an “adulting” assignment:Order takeout from my favorite restaurant. ConvenientlyMine is on the top floor.

  • 12/6 Limerick: Hearternity

    He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11 To save the world that’s in front of meI must fix my heart on eternityWhen Christ…

  • AWK Culture: My Idolatry

    AWK Culture: My Idolatry

    My occult culture / 
Masquerading as Christ

  • 12/5 Poem: Un-Answer-Able

    For somewhere deep in my childhood 
 / I learned just how to perform 
 / Proving how well I understood 
 / Was a way I could conform

  • 12/4 Poem: Undeniable

    What kind of person would I / 
Have to be not to deny / 
A Savior who seems to have failed / 
So I myself am not jailed?

  • 12/3 Haiku: Happy New Ear

    Betrayal sparks hate / 
Revenge ends communicate / 
Mercy opens gate

  • Dream: Bait-and-Switch (Undercover Spiritual Warfare)

    Dream: Bait-and-Switch (Undercover Spiritual Warfare)

    Is this how we use spiritual warfare to set free those we love? / 
Watch and pray while Christ takes their place? / 
Hold the boundary so nothing interferes?

  • 12/2 Tri-Quatrain: Choose to Lose

    Hat tip to Crazy Rich Asians. “The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take…

  • 12/1 Tri-Quatrain: Watch, Man!

    “Jesus answered: Watch out and don’t let anyone fool you!”‭‭ Mark‬ ‭13‬:‭5‬ CEV‬‬ “See the new world I AM making Even through yours and heart breaking I made all of this like a pot For purposes you have forgot This life ain’t a prison for painNor pleasures that don’t need…

  • 11/30 Quad-Quatrain: The Ugliest Habit

    Yet in Christ’s Kingdom the one / 
That brings us close to the Son / 
Which He commands we employ / 
Is full of both horror and joy

  • 11/29 Tri-Quatrain: Back-Handed Friendship

    What kind of friend / 
Will help me to mend / 
The cruelest of lies / 
When Him I denies…