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  • Immanuel
    2025-10-28 SAM: Let Me Go (Harvest 2/5)

    2025-10-28 SAM: Let Me Go (Harvest 2/5)

    The wind of the Spirit / 
Is blowing across the land / 
Like a tornado…

    October 28, 2025
  • Immanuel
    2025-10-27 SAM: Her Village (Harvest 1/5)

    2025-10-27 SAM: Her Village (Harvest 1/5)

    In a land both old and new / 
Foreign and familiar / 
Mine yet alien / 
Together but alone…

    October 27, 2025
  • AI Art
    God’s Hidden Face: Panim/Minap as Cosmic Peek-a-Boo

    God’s Hidden Face: Panim/Minap as Cosmic Peek-a-Boo

    LEWIS: / 
I’ve been writing about Panim—the Hebrew for “face,” the turning of presence./ 
But I’ve coined a companion term: Minap—its reversal. / 
If Panim is the face turned toward, Minap is the face turned away—not in wrath, but in withdrawal, so that we might seek again. / 
The cosmos,…

    October 26, 2025
  • Immanuel
    2025-10-26 YAM: Very Wealthy (BeeHive 4/4)

    2025-10-26 YAM: Very Wealthy (BeeHive 4/4)

    It both is / And is not / The place we once called home // Everything / Is inverted…

    October 26, 2025
  • AI Art
    Christ Club: An Ecosystem Manifesto

    Christ Club: An Ecosystem Manifesto

    As a sequel to The First Rule of Christ Club and The Ringless Gym, write an ecosystem manifesto around these four points. 1. Circles expand friendship with Jesus. / 2. Stewards hold tension between where we do and don’t yet see Jesus. / 3. Each tension is iteratively resolved by…

    October 25, 2025
  • Immanuel
    2025-10-25 YAM: Empty and Destitute (BeeHive 3/4)

    2025-10-25 YAM: Empty and Destitute (BeeHive 3/4)

    To tell me who I am / 
Nourish that identity / 
Teach me how to protect it…

    October 25, 2025
  • AI Art
    The Ringless Gym: A Lament for the Church

    The Ringless Gym: A Lament for the Church

    I have seen men made in the ring.
And I have seen boys pampered into softness beneath the chrome lights of these new sanctuaries. /?
They call them “churches.” / They call them “gyms.” / 
They are neither. / 
They are parlors for the death of the will…

    October 24, 2025
  • AI Art
    The First Rule of Christ Club: You Can’t Explain Christ Club

    The First Rule of Christ Club: You Can’t Explain Christ Club

    Christ Club is a whisper that shows up at 3 a.m. / 
When your marriage is cracking and the pills stopped working. / 
It’s the ache behind your ribs when you look at your father and realize you never learned how to forgive him. / 
It’s not Jesus knocking. /…

    October 24, 2025
  • Immanuel
    2025-10-24 YAM: Bitter Blow (BeeHive 2/4)

    2025-10-24 YAM: Bitter Blow (BeeHive 2/4)

    An ill wind / 
Blows into the hive / 
Blows us out / 
Scattering us…

    October 24, 2025
  • Immanuel
    2025-10-23 YAM: Buzzing (BeeHive 1/4)

    2025-10-23 YAM: Buzzing (BeeHive 1/4)

    Her sisters / 
Are scared / 
Her queen/ / 
Is suspicious…

    October 23, 2025
  • Immanuel
    2025-10-22 IAM: Heart Was Set (Tears 12/12)

    2025-10-22 IAM: Heart Was Set (Tears 12/12)

    All that is left of me / 
After feeding the people / 
Is my heart…

    October 22, 2025
  • dreams
    Dream: Moving Day.

    Dream: Moving Day.

    The place is a madhouse. / It is filled with my friends and acquaintances. // Did I throw a party / And not remember it?

    October 22, 2025
  • Immanuel
    2025-10-21 IAM: Me From You (Tears 11/12)

    2025-10-21 IAM: Me From You (Tears 11/12)

    Carving off / 
Pieces of me / 
To feed on…

    October 21, 2025
  • Immanuel
    2025-10-20 IAM: Die There Too (Tears 10/12)

    2025-10-20 IAM: Die There Too (Tears 10/12)

    “The only knowledge / 
That can save them / 
Is knowledge of My death / 
My body and blood / 
Spilled for them…”

    October 20, 2025
  • AI Art
    The Cruciform Cycle of Law and Grace

    The Cruciform Cycle of Law and Grace

    Yet this very success marks the beginning of decline. / 
For when grace cools into law, the form that once liberated begins to constrain. / 
The spiritual spring that birthed the order becomes a mechanical routine. / 
The Law, having preserved life, now begins to stifle it…

    October 19, 2025
  • Immanuel
    2025-10-19 IAM: Be My People (Tears 9/12)

    2025-10-19 IAM: Be My People (Tears 9/12)

    “I will no longer answer / 
Their thirst / 
For the water of knowledge…”

    October 19, 2025
  • Immanuel
    Over The Woods ARC (Redeeming Sondheim’s Into The Woods)

    Over The Woods ARC (Redeeming Sondheim’s Into The Woods)

    MYSTERIOUS STRANGER: It’s… not that simple. Anyway, the important question is: why are you back in the woods? I thought you were living happily ever after with your wife and my grandson!

    October 18, 2025
  • Immanuel
    2025-10-18 IAM: And Stay With (Tears 8/12)

    2025-10-18 IAM: And Stay With (Tears 8/12)

    I no longer need / 
To go to the river / 
For I am the river…

    October 18, 2025
  • Immanuel
    2025-10-17 IAM: Now Go With (Tears 7/12)

    2025-10-17 IAM: Now Go With (Tears 7/12)

    The heart of Jesus / Sends me out / Into the world // Exchanging / His love / For their grief…

    October 17, 2025
  • Immanuel
    2025-10-16 IAM: Clung Tightly (Tears 6/12)

    2025-10-16 IAM: Clung Tightly (Tears 6/12)

    The tension / Of loving those / Who hate each other // Including / Perhaps especially / Parts of myself…

    October 16, 2025
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