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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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2025-11-16 YAM: Carried It Back (Survey 16/18)
The beast form of the young woman / Responds to her deepest instincts / By killing mine // Exactly as planned…
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2025-11-15 YAM: More Than Half (Survey 15/18)
And I realize / The beast we fought and killed / And fed on / Was Christ Himself…
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2025-11-14 YAM: Drop Them On Purpose (Survey 14/18)
But then / The wind shifts / And we plummet to earth…
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2025-11-13 YAM: Returned to Gather (Survey 13/18)
The young woman and I / Return to the narrow gorge / That opens onto the fertile valley
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2025-11-12 YAM: Here is Bread, and Wine (Survey 12/18)
Breaking bread together / Drinking new wine / As we covenant / To explore the new world below…
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2025-11-11 YAM: Continue to Find Favor (Survey 11/18)
The food is wonderful. // I feel ashamed / I could not receive it earlier…
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The Grasshopper Cure: Molting Into Christ
When Jesus speaks of taking up the cross daily, He is not prescribing religious misery. / He is describing the necessary process of transformation by which the false self dies so that the true self may live. // This death is not primarily about losing things, but about being freed…
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2025-11-10 YAM: Reward You For Your Sacrifices (Survey 10/18)
The young men rush in / And stab it under its wings / Until it collapses over me…
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The Grasshopper Trap: Denying God’s Belief in Us
He has crossed the line between heaven and earth, divinity and dust, so that you might never again call yourself a grasshopper in the sight of giants.
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2025-11-09 YAM: Death Of Your Husband (Survey 9/18)
But I must enter / And lead the young men / To kill the beasts / We must eat / In order to survive…
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2025-11-07 YAM:Bowed Low With (Survey 7/18)
The feast prepared / By the young woman / Seems utterly amazing / And totally inedible…
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2025-11-06 YAM:Which Fields They Go (Survey 6/18)
The cliff we wandered off / Was not our doom / But our origin story…
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2025-11-05 YAM: Follow The Young (Survey 5/18)
I say nothing / As I follow the young woman / Who doesn’t seem to know / Where she is going / Or why…
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2025-11-04 YAM: On Her Feet (Survey 4/18)
The young woman / Assigned to help me / Doesn’t even notice me…
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Cross Purposes: The Spiral of Law and Grace
The Cross reveals that intimacy is not the absence of judgment but its transfiguration. / Love does not ignore truth — it inhabits it until truth itself becomes safe. // The Cross is not merely where Law and Grace reconcile — it’s where they marry. / Their union births the…

