Radically Happy

  • Dream: Gun Control

    Dream: Gun Control

    Owen Wilson and Ben Affleck are cops on a stakeoutThis floor of the buildingIs one giant roomFull of desks and bookshelvesProbably a college library Ben is on administrative leaveBecause he supposedly shot someoneFor no good reasonOwen, his partner, is helping him prove his innocenceBen’s fragmented memoriesAnd other cluesHave led them…

  • Leaving Adam’s Arms

    Escaping conflicted comfort… It is naturalTo seek comfortIn the arms of Adam Falling backOn the familiar patternsAnd role models of culture

  • Dream: Hospital Escape

    Dream: Hospital Escape

    “Ms. Clairborne, please remain seated. Do not leave your room. All hospital personnel have been alerted to your presence. Do not make this harder on yourself than necessary.” Liz ignored the voice from speaker on the desk and finished getting dressed. She stepped over the male orderly who was sleeping…

  • Dream: The Agony of Hope

    Dream: The Agony of Hope

    “We have forgotten — or perhaps never really understood — what it means to trust that God is in control.
Politics matters.
But we have forgotten that good political leaders were supposed to be our gift to the world.
Now we think they are something the world has to give us, so we…

  • My Quest: Incarnating SOC-Awareness

    aka The Practice of ImPresenceor How to Escape Enframing The (hopeful) resolution of lessons learned during my years spent in the Valley of Achor.

  • DBJ-AEFJ “An Eye For Judging” 9/2/2021

    Tickets available now! (For both 10am and 1pm on Thu Sept 2) I often get frustrated when others don’t see what I do. This passage makes me wonder what others see that I do not: “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you…

  • DBJ “SCAR” Edition

    A more deliberately introspective version the Spirit section (between Word and Body, as in IGWET). Inspired by DBJ “AGONY” Edition.

  • Round the Bend and Back Again

    Round the Bend is a Nevil Shute novel about Tom, a British airplane mechanic who moves to the Middle East after his wartime marriage ends in disaster. In our online book club, I had a long but inconclusive discussion with my father about why Tom did that. This vignette is…

  • Mitch’s Public Easter

    This story blew me away. His private Easter feels like it has become mine. Thanks, Mitch. ‘A Boy in the Forest’ by Pikila When I was a young man, I began searching for the meaning of life. Along the way, I wrote a travel journal, a mix of … My…

  • THY Kingdom Come

    God’s Kingdom is Coming But not as they expect Or I expect.

  • Dream: Techie Mayor CEO

    I feel like a failure 
It feels like my fault 
Because how can He succeed 
If nobody helps Him? 
And aren’t I responsible 
If I’m the only one 
Who knows He can be trusted?

  • The Tunnel of Codependency

    We say we are trying to help them
But really we…
I…
I am mirroring
Their pain and anxiety
And it is easier
To try to fix them
Than deal with those feelings
Within myself

  • Dream: Construction Boundaries

    MIT is being renovated. I am leading a tour group. Like I used to do. We come from the East. The standalone buildings on that side Are most functional. But the large complex in the heart of campus The Infinite Corridor Is completely surrounded in yellow tape. In fact The…

  • DBJ-P139: 3rd Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice

    This Tuesday, August 17th we finish our summer 2021 Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice series meditating on emotional security via Psalm 139, incorporating elements of DBJ AGONY Edition.

  • DBJ “AGONY” Edition

    Absorb Scripture Guided Memories Observe Feelings Name the Pain Yield to Jesus

  • A Word for America, by John Dayalan Edward

    [A prophetic word from my cousin, an American citizen who leads a team of missionaries in India. — Ernie P.] Attached are some of the thoughts God has given for the States. Usually, the word of knowledge comes in part and sharing it at the right place brings greater clarity.…

  • Dream: Chocolate Shop Fail

    I am in a cavernous store, the size of COSTCO. It is basically a tourist trap. Actually part of a series. In a resort. In the mountains. This one is a candy store. Each day they take us to a different one. I wasn’t interested so I wandered off.

  • Playlist DBJ-GTEM: Going The Extra Mile

    Overcoming enmity, by going the extra mile, in order to grow us all closer to Jesus. See also: DBJ-SHON: Salome’s Honor DBJ-MOGA: Moses Overcomes God’s Anger (Exodus 32)

  • Prayer: The Right of Intercession

    When there is nothing constructive leftTo learn, think through, or repentI must do the work of an intercessorAnd trust God for what happens next

  • Christlike Response to Accusations

    Meditations from my cousin, John Dayalan Edward. It’s in moments of great weakness we discover His strength as we are turned towards HimAnd it is moments of brokenness that brings out the best of fragrance from us, as we are at His feet.