Radically Happy

  • Poem: Toll Taken

    So all this world’s schemes 
Are but fuel for our dreams 
What our foes think will staunch us 
Become rockets to launch us

  • Sex 207. Loving Life

    Sex 207. Loving Life

    I have tasted all the pleasures of this world, from the sublime heights of philosophy to the sordid depths of passion. All start out sweet as honey to my mouth, but end up bitter as gall in my stomach. This… is the reverse.

  • Poem: CIS-appointment

    God is not 
Dis-appointed with us 
Rather He has 
Cis-appointed us

  • Sex 206. Loving Father

    Sex 206. Loving Father

    Me: You have got to be kidding me. Don’t you know where we are? What I did to get here? What I’ve been doing since I got here? Father: Yes. Practicing!

  • Poem: Unblind Rage

    Anger is God’s potent gift To cause our perspective to shift From passive estrangement To risky engagement

  • Poem: Idle Work

    The call to work We must not shirk Yet being busy Can cause a tizzy

  • Sex 205. Loving Death

    Sex 205. Loving Death

    The bar is dark. I feel like I’ve been stuck in a cave for three days. The drinks taste awful, but they’re cheap. All they cost is my soul. Which I’m trying to get rid of anyway, since it stinks worse than these drinks. Then HE comes in…

  • Poem: Consumption Presumption

    But what if the tables are turned And Grace is not something I earned

  • Sex 107B. #JuliasRoom: Feeling a False Pretext

    The emotional hashtag #JuliasRoom refers to the sense of dislocation felt when the character realizes something is “off,” even though he is getting exactly what he asked for.

  • Slam: God Trained

    When it’s time to mature 
Then the things that were sure 
Must be turned to manure 
So in Christ we’re made pure

  • Sex 204. Loving Hiss Elf

    Sex 204. Loving Hiss Elf

    “You ruin everything. You take everything I thought was good and pure and valuable, and reveal them to be horrible lies and shadowy deceptions. You make it sound like everything I’ve spent my whole life sacrificing for was an idiotic lie. I feel… I feel…” “The way you make everyone…

  • Poem: Among Us

    When He was among us 
We walked where He lead 
Now He has brung us 
To walk in His stead

  • Poem: Union with Christ (First to Last)

    Union with Christ is our Alpha 
The safety from which we begin 
But He must become our Omega 
With we and our world free from sin

  • Sex 202. Loving Terrorsaur

    Sex 202. Loving Terrorsaur

    She is not an object of desire. She is not even human. Yet she is my next quest. Pterosaur Her: Why can’t you just leaves her alone? I look at her. I’m sure I could kill her. I know I want to.

  • Limerick: Step by Misstep

    A life of perfect obedience 
Is not what God wants most from us

  • Limerick: Heart for Hard Tests

    When we find ourselves failing life’s test Seek out One who knows us best

  • Systematic Graceology

    The ultimate purpose and practice of Spiritual Formation is: Identifying the Anxieties for which we currently lack Grace Training us to Catharize them by the Cross of Christ More formally:

  • Poem: Fishy Calling

    I must be the priest To reach for the least I must be the saint Who goes where God ain’t

  • Limerick: Untied States

    You may think me mad But that is where heaven awaits

  • Limerick: Unclean Healing

    Much harder to go to a cross And bear all the world’s shame and loss