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2025-12-02 IAM: Young Man to Marry (Kinsman 14/17)
You made me kill you / To save my family / How can you expect me / To love my beloved like that?
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2025-12-01 IAM: Relative By Marriage (Kinsman 13/17)
Somehow / The Jesus-inspired surgery / Replacing her mother’s feet / Brought me face to face / With my beloved…
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2025-11-30 IAM: Surprised to Find (Kinsman 12/17)
And in me obeying Jesus / To heal her feet / With the gospel of peace / Somehow / He also healed mine…
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Jesus the Non-Commuting Operator
He will not commute with our carefully arranged ambitions. / He will not sit comfortably alongside our preferred identities. / He will not be merely added to the Hamiltonian of our lives as a stabilizing term…
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2025-11-29 IAM: Fell Fast Asleep (Kinsman 11/17)
I have no idea why / Because this whole idea / Of me performing surgery / On my beloved’s mother / Is completely insane…
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The Gospel According to Lamentations
Maybe you’ve walked through ruins of your own: a broken relationship, a diagnosis you didn’t want, a dream that didn’t survive the night. You know the hush of heartbreak. You know how absence can feel louder than presence.
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2025-11-27 IAM: Do Everything (Kinsman 9/17)
We are… holding each other close. // Not out of passion / But terror / As Jesus… // Drives like a madman!
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2025-11-26 IAM: Lie Down There (Kinsman 8/17)
She is pleasant towards me / But reserved // Perhaps I am too…
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2025-11-25 IAM: Plenty to Eat and Drink (Kinsman 7/17)
She doesn’t see me / So consistently / That I know / She is deliberately avoiding me…
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2025-11-24 IAM: Winnowing Barley (Kinsman 6/17)
Even as I am / Being sifted // All my thoughts / Feelings / Desires / Memories…
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2025-11-23 IAM: Happy and Secure (Kinsman 5/17)
“How can you ask me / To bring in the harvest / When I am a cowman / Instead of a farmer…”
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2025-11-21 IAM: You’ll Be Alone (Kinsman 3/17)
I shot Jesus / And killed Him // In my defense / He provoked me…
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2025-11-20 IAM: Stay Close (Kinsman 2/17)
Jesus has the drop on me / And I wouldn’t kill him first / Even if I could // Would I?
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2025-11-19 IAM: Closely Related (Kinsman 1/17)
He appears / As as a man in black / With a black scarf / Covering His mouth / Like an outlaw’s…
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2025-11-18 YAM: Through Life or Through Death (Survey 18/18)
My job / Was never / To conquer the land / From outside…
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2025-11-17 YAM: Gather All This (Survey 17/18)
I see / How even the darkest places / Are essential parts / Of a more beautiful pattern…
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Upward Grace: From Mercy to “Donacy”
We have a word for downward grace: mercy. / We have none for the upward grace— the radiance that names a soul anew, that begets identity out of ruin, that kindles a human being until they become flame…
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