Radically Happy

  • Poem: Re-Storyed We

    But what if instead It is others I please? Then I’ll soon live in dread As I beg on my knees This war between us Is living like orphans We scream and we lust As slaves to endorphins

  • Poem: Challenge-Accepted

    We have to feel we’re the star of our story So that we learn we are worthy of glory

  • Limerick: ReNewAll

    Our share in heaven’s accrual

  • 8/1 RSVP: Buying Needles to Strain Camels (The Purpose of Wealth)

    Matthew 23:24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. This may sound bizarre, but see if you can follow my logic…

  • Poem: Step of Out

    If we are to step out with God 
We must be out of step with this world

  • Limerick: Powerfully Weak

    To bring forth the change that we seek We must become powerfully weak

  • 7/29 RSVP: Up-Ending Authority

    He came To set things right By up-ending Our upside-down institutions

  • 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