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2/20 IAM: O-So-Positive
I ask: why doesn’t everyone receive from you? / Why do they have to go through me? / I am such a poor Reflection / I weep
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Sex 405: Polar Opposites
He is… softer / Guileless / Open / Vulnerable // Not stupid / But simple / In a good way // Oh my god. / Am I the evil twin?
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1/19 IAM: Remembering to Call
I look for Jesus. / I don’t see Him. / But I see a phone / On the table next to me…
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2/18 IAM: Drunk with Joy (War of The Dance, Part 3 of 3)
Maybe I’m just deluded / I could be throwing away my reputation / My identity / Everything I spent my life building // My company will fire me / My family disown me / My friends despise me / (Again)
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Sex 404: What The Deuce?
You are used to thinking of war as the opposite of peace. / But I know that they are two sides of the same coins. / Twins, if you will…
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2/17 IAM: Song-Strong (War of The Dance, Part 2 of 3)
The song Jesus is playing on His trumpet / Amidst the battlefield of life / Not a battle cry / Not reveille / A love song…
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2/16 IAM: Praise-Angry (War of The Dance, Part 1 of 3)
Our forces are scattered / Our leaders incompetent / Supplies unreliable / Mission vital but unclear // It is hell…
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Dream: Our Turn to Build
We are at a big event Some sort of open-air arena Surrounded by a junkyard There’s entertainment in the center Plus teams, building on the side It is not clear which is the main attraction Versus something to keep people busy
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2/15 IAM: Re-Assembled
I am… a crowd of midgets / Deeply angry / Superficially happy // We appear calm and peaceful / As long as we keep our distance…
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2/14 IAM: The Rest of Glory
He is walking around me / Clothed in white armor / Keeping the darkness away // No // **_Pushing_** the darkness away…
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2/13 IAM: Intimately Known
I look for Jesus. / He is there / Exactly where He is supposed to be / Standing at the altar // Except… / He isn’t looking at me / Or for me // My heart breaks…
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2/12 IAM: Super Vulnerable! (INRI, Part 6 of 6)
I take the purple sash from my hips / And tie it around my neck / Like a superhero cape // The crown of thorns / Stays on my waist / Like Batman’s utility belt…
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Sex 403: Not the Bees
I see an elderly yet somehow ageless woman / Smiling maternally at the bees as they go about their business. / Without thinking I blurt out… / The Earnest Redeemer: Don’t trust them! They will fail you. They won’t live long enough to fulfill their purpose!
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Sex 402: Big Sir
Father Time: You’re not listening. And even if you were, Sex is not a thing you can comprehend with words. It must be experienced. Stop talking. Look!
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2/11 IAM: A Walking Paradox (INRI, Part 5 of 6)
Behind me / Are natural enemies / Predator and pray / Villain and victim // I cannot control them / Though I have been fool enough to try…
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Sex 401: Love and War
The Earnest Redeemer: Okay. That, right there. Specifically, there’s two distinct dimensions of Sex I don’t know how to reconcile. 1. Love (indicating Aphrodite) seems inherently symmetric. Sex as mutual pleasure, mutual consent, mutual joy to build the long-term parental partnerships undergirding a family. 2. War (glancing at Ares) is…
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2/10 IAM: Faith-Fully Clothed (INRI, Part 4 of 6)
He wraps the sash around my waist / And belts it on with His crown of thorns
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2/9 IAM: Rightly Judged (INRI, Part 3 of 6)
The (s)word of Jesus pierces my heart / Slicing through my umbilical cord / Pinning me to the ground // I want to scream / But there is no pain / Rather… relief?
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2/8 IAM: Terrifyingly Open (INRI, Part 2 of 6)
When Jesus opens my tomb / A giant, green, venomous snake pops up / Hissing furiously at Jesus…
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2/7 IAM: Fearfully Incomplete (INRI, Part 1 of 6)
It is heavy / Cold and wet // But safe / Like a sarcophagus // I don’t even know what I am hiding from / But I am afraid to find out…
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